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• HABITS OF SUCCESS
• IN SCHOOL, WORK AND LIFE

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Things are more like they are today than they
ever have been. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
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Insanity is continuing to do the same thing over
and over and expecting different
results.Albert Einstein
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SHARING THE VISION
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Habits of Success attend to

• Value - choosing to behave intelligently
• Inclination- deciding to use a certain behavior
• Sensitivity- knowing when to use them
• Capability- having skills capacity to use them
• Commitment- reflecting on improvement

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• HABIT IS A CABLEWE WEAVE IT EACH DAY, AND AT
  LAST WE CANNOT BREAK IT.

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MIND SHIFTS

• FROM
• Not only knowing right answers.

• TO
• Also knowing how to behave when answers are not
  immediately apparent.

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• ARE WE PREPARING STUDENTS FOR A LIFE OF TESTS OR
  FOR THE TESTS OF LIFE?

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1. PERSISTING Persevering on a task even
though the resolution is not immediately
apparent.

• Stick to it!

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SHARE AN EXAMPLE OF A TIME IN YOUR LIFE WHEN
PERSISTENCE PAID OFF FOR YOU.
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2. MANAGING IMPULSIVITY
Acting with forethought and deliberation.

• Take your time!

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MANAGINGIMPULSIVITY

• DONT CALL OUT
• IN ASSEMBLY IF
• YOU LOOSE A
• TOOTH. YOU WAIT
• UNTIL ASSEMBLY
• IS OVER.
• GAGE, GRADE 1

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3. LISTENING WITH UNDERSTANDING

AND EMPATHY
Devoting mental energies to understanding others
thoughts and feelings.

• Understand others!

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LISTENING SEQUENCE

• Pause
• Paraphrase
• Probe
• Inquire
• Clarify

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Pausing

• Using wait-time before responding
• to or asking a question allows time
• for more complex thinking, enhances dialogue and
  improves decision making.

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Paraphrasing

• Lets others know that you are
• listening, that you understand
• or are trying to understand
• them and that you care.

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Probing

• Increases the clarity and precision of the
  group's thinking by refining understandings,
  terminology
• and interpretations.

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Listener Use the Pause, Paraphrase Probe
sequence
Speaker Finish this sentence AS I REFLECT
ON MY DAUGHTERS PROGRESS SO FAR THIS SCHOOL YEAR
SO FAR, I AM MOST PROUD OF
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Listener Use the Pause, Paraphrase Probe
sequence
Speaker Finish this sentence AS MY
DAUGHTER ANTICIPATES THE REMAINDER OF THIS SCHOOL
YEAR, SHE IS MOST EXCITED ABOUT.
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4. THINKING FLEXIBLY4. THINKING
FLEXIBLY
Changing perspectives, generating alternatives,
considering options.

• Look at it another way!

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5. METACOGNITION
Being aware of your own thoughts, feelings, and
actions and their effects of on others

• Think about your thinking!

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Metacognition

• Think
• Aloud
• Problem
• Solving

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THINK ALOUDPROBLEM SOLVING

• Pose challenging problems then
• Invite your child to describe their plans
• and strategies for solving the problem.
• Share their thinking as they are
• implementing their plan.
• Reflect on/evaluate the
• effectiveness of their strategy.

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Sustaining and Engaging Metacognition

• 1. Check for Accuracy
• 2. Clarify
• 3. Provide data not answers
• 4. Resist making judgments
• 5. Stay focused on thinking
• 6. Encourage Persistence

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6. STRIVING FOR ACCURACY
Desiring exactness, fidelity and
craftsmanship.

• Check it again!

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7. QUESTIONING AND POSING
PROBLEMS
Having a questioning attitude. Developing
strategies to produce needed data. Finding
problems to solve.
How do you know?
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Questioning And Problem Posing
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8. APPLYING PAST KNOWLEDGE TO NEW
SITUATIONS
Accessing prior knowledge and transferring it to
novel situations.

• Use what youve learned!

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9. THINKING AND COMMUNICATING WITH CLARITY AND
PRECISION
Striving for accurate communication in
written and oral form.

• Think Clearly!

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10. GATHERING DATA THROUGH ALL SENSES
Using all sensory pathways gustatory,
olfactory, tactile, kinesthetic, auditory, visual.
Use your natural pathways!
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11. CREATING, IMAGINING, INNOVATING
Generating new and novel ideas fluency,
originality.

• Try a different way!

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12. RESPONDING WITH WONDERMENT AND AWE
Finding the world fascinating, mysterious,
intriguing and phenomenal.

• Awesome!

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All thinking begins with wondering Socrates
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13. TAKING RESPONSIBLE RISKS
Being adventuresome. Living on the edge of one's
competence

• Venture Out!

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TAKING RESPONSIBLE RISKS

• What school and classroom conditions must exist
  to foster creative thinking and risk-taking?

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14. FINDING HUMOR
Finding whimsy, incongruity and
playfulness. Laughing at yourself.

• Laugh a little!

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15. THINKING INTERDEPENDENTLY
Working with and learning from others in
reciprocal situations.

• Work together!

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16. REMAINING OPEN TO CONTINUOUS LEARNING
Having humility and pride in admitting there is
more to learn. Resisting complacency. Continue
to learn!
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MODELING
What you are speaks so loudly, they cant hear
what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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DONT WORRY THAT CHILDREN NEVER LISTEN TO YOU
WORRY THAT THEY ARE ALWAYS WATCHING
YOU. ROBERT FULGHUM
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WE ARE WHAT WE REPEATEDLY DO. EXCELLENCE, THEN,
IS NOT AN ACT BUT A HABIT. Aristotle