Activity Directions:

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Entry Activity

• Activity Directions
• Find a pipe cleaner
• Form it into a shape that represents how you feel
  today

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Entry Activity

• Activity Directions
• Identify a movie that has inspired or touched
  you.
• Mingle about introduce yourself.
• Find someone who shares your experience with that
  movie.
• Share why the movie inspired or touched you
  (optional).

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Building Successful Learning Communities
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Whats Worth Fighting For?
How does this movie relate to you personally or
professionally?
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What did we find?

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For Us

• helping you build successful learning communities
  is whats worth fighting for

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Introductions

• Cody Stitt
• Aaron Hansen

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A Land Grant Research University
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Workshop Objectives

• By the end of today we hope you will be able to
• Identify what the basic elements of the Learning
  Community Model
• Understand why Learning Communities are
  important.
• Experience Explore examples of how to create
  Learning Communities.

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Workshop Objectives

• We hope that you
• Leave with a new paradigm for looking at their
  audience as a learning community.
• Become intentional about building social
  emotional skills through relationships.
• Want to learn more

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Workshop Objectives

• What else do you hope we touch upon?

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Text a Friend

• Activity
• On a index card, briefly write
• a text to a friend answering

• Why did you choose
• this workshop?

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Shared Norms

• Be Here
• Challenge By Choice
• Permission to Leave
• Be Open
• Sharing Listening to Ideas
• Be Caring
• Emotionally Intellectually

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What is aSuccessfulLearning Community?
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PAIR SHARE

• Activity Directions
• Find a partner and get back to back with them
• Turn and introduce yourself
• Share your occupation and why you have chosen it.

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PAIR SHARE

• Activity Directions
• Find a partner and get back to back with
  them
• Turn and introduce yourself
• Share your definition of success in your
  classroom.

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Define a Successful Classroom
Your Mental Model

• Shared Mental Model

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Success is

• Motivation Skills Environment
• Potential Success

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Define Learning
Your Mental Model

• Shared Mental Model
• The development or improvement of
• Social Competencies
• Emotional Competencies
• Intellectual Competencies
• Physical Competencies

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• The willingness to take risks, ask questions and
  make mistakes is a requirement for learning.
• Deborah Meier (In Schools We Trust)

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Define Community
Your Mental Model

• Shared Mental Model
• A group of Individuals with
• Shared Membership
• Shared Purpose
• Shared Norms
• Shared Skills
• Shared Outcomes

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Learning Community Model
Individual
Group Success
Relationships
Shared Purpose
Shared Memberships
Shared Outcomes
Shared Norms
Shared Skills
Shared Experiences
Individuals
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Why Build Learning Community?
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40 Developmental AssetsSocial Emotional Skills
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Why Look at Social Emotion Learning (SEL)?

• Emotions affect how and what we learn
• Relationships provide the foundation for all
  learning
• SEL skills can be easily taught and learned
• SEL positively effect academic performance
• SEL are essential for lifelong success

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SEL Research Based Outcomes
Increased Commitment to School
Reduced Suspensions
More Time Devoted to Schoolwork
Less Behavior Issues
Improved Graduation Rate
Improved Post-grad Employment Rates
Increased Mastery of Subject Material
Increased Positive School Climate
(Hawkins et al., 1999 Malecki Elliot,
2002)
Improved attendance
Reduced Expulsions
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Skills Taught Through SEL ( emotional
competencies REQUIRED for learning)

• Self Awareness- identifying and recognizing
  emotions, recognizing strengths
• Social Awareness- empathy, respect for others,
  personal responsibility
• Decision Making- evaluation, reflection,
  consequential thinking
• Self-Management- impulse control, stress
  management, self-discipline
• Relationship Skills- cooperation, conflict
  resolution, communication

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• Learning is only possible after a students
  social, emotional, and physical needs have been
  met.
• Council on Adolescent Development

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• At best, IQ contributes 20 to the factors of
  success, which leaves 80 to Emotional
  Intelligence (EQ).
• Daniel Goleman
• (Emotional Intelligence)

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Relationships
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• The most promising strategy for sustained school
  improvement is developing the ability to function
  as a Learning Community.
• Richard DeFour
• (Learning Communities at Work)

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• Learning does not happen when students are
  unable to express their ideas, emotions,
  confusions, ignorance and prejudices. Only when
  the teacher, the students and the subject can be
  woven together into the fabric of community will
  it have the chance to happen.
• Parker Palmer
• (The Courage to Teach)

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• No significant learning occurs without a
  significant relationship.
• Dr. James Comer
• (Leave No Child Behind)

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• The studies that compare the performance of
  students in cooperative classrooms verses
  traditional ones, show significant academic gains
  favoring students in cooperative classrooms.
• Spencer Kagan
• (Cooperative Learning)

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Brain Research
Neurons that fire together, wire together.
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How to Build SuccessfulLearning Communities
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• To live in a quantum world, we need to change
  what we do. We need to stop describing tasks and
  instead facilitate a process. We need to become
  savvy about how to build relationships, and learn
  how to nurture growing, and changing things. We
  will need better skills in listening,
  communicating, and facilitating groups, for these
  are the talents that build strong communities.
• Margaret Wheatley
• (Leadership and the New Science)

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Multiple Learning Styles
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Processing Questions

• What
• So What
• Now What

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Basic Needs of Young People

• Survival
• Belonging
• Power
• Freedom
• Fun

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Learning Community Model
Individual
Group Success
Relationships
Shared Purpose
Shared Memberships
Shared Outcomes
Shared Norms
Shared Skills
Shared Experiences
Individuals
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The Tools
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Building Shared Membership

• Check-Ins
• Personal Sharing- Communication
• Being Heard- Active Listening
• Positive Experiences with Others
• Shared Success

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Building Shared Purpose

• Dreams
• Vision for the future
• Personal Goals
• Understanding Why Its Important, Significant,
  Meaningful

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Building Shared Norms

• Full Value/ Community Contracts
• Challenge by Choice

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Community Contract
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Challenge By Choice
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Building Shared Skills
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Building Shared Outcomes
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Closure Activity

• Voice Mail
• What did you learn today?
• What was your workshop highlight?
• Txt Msg
• What did you learn today?
• What was your workshop highlight?
• Workshop Evaluations

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Contact Information

• WSU Extension
• Chelan County
• [phone]
• Aaron Hansen
• aahansen_at_wsu.edu
• Cody Stitt codystitt_at_wsu.edu

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• When it comes to healthy brain development, the
  wise teacher must choose the right experiences at
  the right time.
• Marian Diamond
• (Magic Trees of the Mind)

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• Emotional resources are the most important of
  all resources.
• Ruby Payne
• (Poverty Frameworks)

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The difference between successful students and
troubled students is the presence the 40
Developmental Assets. Search Institute (What
Kids Need to Succeed)
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• Educational practices demand a wider horizon of
  learning opportunities if we are to experience
  greater intelligence.
• Howard Gardner
• (Multiple Intelligences)

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• The single factor to every successful change
  initiative is that relationships improve.
• Michael Fullan
• (Leading in a Culture of Change)

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They dont care what you know until they know
you care.
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Law of the Harvest
The law of the Harvest
It is an inevitable law in life, that you will
reap what you sow. You cant plant carrot seeds,
and harvest potatoes. If you want to change
tomorrows harvest, you need to change what you
are planting today.
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S.E.L is sometimes called the Missing link,
because it represents a part of education that
links academic knowledge with a specific set of
skills and experiences that are important to
success in schools, families, communities,
workplaces and life in general.
International Academy of Education
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What do you think are the top 5 influences on
Learning?

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What do you think are the top 5 influences on
Learning?

• Teachers Emotional Intelligence
• Students Emotional Intelligence
• Parents Emotional Intelligence
• Student to Teacher Social Interactions
• Motivational Affective Attributes

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In a case study estimating the relative
influence of 30 different categories of
educational, psychological, and social variables
on learning, social and emotional variables were
found to exert the most influence on academic
performance. Walberg, H.J. Haertel,
G.D. Psychology and Educational Practice