2019 Early CHOICES Teach Adults To Get Results Deep Dive Master Class Dashboard

Teach Adults To Get Results

Deep Dive Master Class

Think of the dashboard as your home base as well as “library” for all digital files related to your Deep Dive Master Class. The dashboard will also house session audio files and notes.

The dashboard is not interactive, therefore, if you have questions, want to share a resource, or are looking for “tribe” support, please use our FaceBook group.

Here is the ZOOM link that we’ll use across all four session: https://zoom.us/j/3303101040
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2019 Schedule (all times are CT)

  • June 11 (8-9:15)***Note earlier time for our first gathering
  • June 18 (9-10:15)
  • July 9 (9-10:15)
  • July 16 (9-10:15)

Session-by-Session Resources
Session 1 – Wholeness 

  • Optional Flipped Learning Activities
    • Review the Transforming professional development eBook. In particular, review tips and tools for mindset before methods. Identify a tip or strategy that you have found to be successful, or you feel would help lead you to success. Be ready to share the tip/tool during the Zoom call.
    • Consider a current situation, or one that presents itself often, where you are faced with resistance and a less than growth mindset. How do you typically approach the situation? What generally works? What would the ideal situation look like? Be ready to share your examples during the Zoom call.
  • If there is time…
    • Listen to this audio file that describes how the Transforming PD eBook is organized. That may help you find strategies and tips about mindset, resistance, etc.
    • Gain access to my Symbaloo Webmix for effective PD
      • ECE Solutionary members login and click here, scroll to the bottom of the show notes page for bullets and links to Symbaloo etc.
      • Non-members read this blog and complete the form
    • Begin identifying your goals for participating in the Deep Dive Master Class.
    • Download and use this planning form as you see fit (before, during, and after each session
  • After Session 1
    • Recording [video]
    • Links shared during Session 1
      • Fink’s chapter [pdf]
      • Significant learning outcomes sentence starters [pdf]
      • Mindfulness handouts [part 1] [part 2]
      • Blog on role of incentives [link]
    • Actions Steps (everyone aim to get in FB)
      • Julie: Get video to work; Explore Fink’s work/pie; Think more about the heart of participants
      • Pam: Reflect ton what was shared during session 1; Make time to digest and look things over
      • Ann: Think bout Fink’s work as it applies to the Round Tables event
      • Emily: Think about Fink’s work as it applies to Community of Practice work; Apply “will, hill, skill” framework and be explicit about cycles of reflection and co-learning.

Session 2 – Community of Learners

  • Optional Flipped Learning Activity
    • Read this blog about staff meetings that build upon the interests of adult learners (click here for the infographic)
      • Reflection/discussion prompts:
        • How do you know and recognize your own interests and the interest of colleagues/staff/those you coach?
        • What does being interested in something do for the learning process?
        • Why don’t way pay more attention to interests? Does it cause “shark music”?
    • Read this chapter from How to Live a Good Life
      • Reflection/discussion prompts:
        • How aware are you of your own shark music?
        • How able are you to turn down the shark music of others? (additional blog)
        • How can WOOP help with shark music?
    • Handout about The YES Brain [pdf]
    • Make sure you can access (view) this Google Drive document on tiered PD [link]
  • After Session2
    • Recording (action steps only) [audio]
    • Links shared during Session
      • PPT [pdf]
      • Blog on role of incentives [link]
      • Emily’s DB folder with examples of signifiant learning outcomes [link]
    • Actions Steps
      • Pam: Dig into blog on strategies to build upon interests; Review Session 2’s PPT; explore WOOP app
      • Michelle: Reflect more on the role incentives play; Continue to think about how what we’re learning applies to group’s work.
      • Julie: Continue to explore and dive into Finks work; In particular the caring and human dimension portions of the pie; think about things we’ve talked about and incorporate into Thursday’s group discussion.
      • Emily: Download WOOP app; Learn more about SPRINTS
      • Ann: Continue to explore FINKs work; think about tiered PD; Consider how to connect staff with PD offerings (create matches)

Session 3 – Getting to Implementation

  • Optional Flipped Learning Activities
    • Read and/or listen to any of the following and begin to explore the role habits play in achieving a change in practice. I also invite you to consider your role in modeling and supporting healthy habits
      • Free e-copy of “The Complete Guide to Mindful Habits” by Crystal Pirri [link]
      • Posts in this habit blog series [link to part 1]
      • Podcast with Charles Duhigg [podcast]
    • Revisit the handout about The YES Brain and The NO brain, and consider the implications for getting to fidelity of implementation  [pdf]
    • Read this blog about identifying strengths [link]
    • Read and listen about seeing the adult behind the behavior [link]
    • Read this or another resource about implementation science (heavy but provides a context of the latest thinking about getting to a change in practice) [pdf]
  • After Session 3:
    • Video recording for Session 3 [video]
    • From the blog on why even great leaders can’t get to a change in practice, you’ll find these links to replacement to traditional needs assessments
    • Action Steps
      • Pam: Look into and explore how to change habits. Learn more about how this would work within a short period of time (KPF to comment on this in FB as well).
      • Emily: Use round tables to continue to inspire and capitalize upon realistic optimism.
      • Julie: Experiment with “up until now” and see what type of responses.
      • Michelle: The change we want is complex…use the round tables to help imagine and reflect on the possibilities that exist.
      • Ann: Resurrect and revise the PD planning sheet to help keep a focus on balance and resilience.

Session 4 – Raising our collective EQ 

  • Session 4 Recording
    [video]
  • Session 4 Action Steps:
    • Michelle: Continue to explore the cone analogy and policies. Find ways to expand perceptions around policies. Go back to managing change and how to assess beliefs and values.
    • Julie: Plan to introduce the EQ quiz to leaders as a way to explore the complexity of change.
    • Pam: Figure out who to take the ideas and embed them into the PD that is being offered…put the ideas into practice.
    • Emily: Integrate the hows into the community of practice; be more explicit with the “connective tissue”.
    • Ann: Go back to the traffic cone and continue to make connections to vision statements. Be explicit. Reminded that doing many good things.
  • Session 4 Resources (organized by EQ skill)
    • General
      • Blog series on the 5 elements of EQ as defined by KPF [link]
      • Link to research and a valid assessment developed by Dan Goleman and colleagues [link]
      • Free e-copy of “Emotional Intelligence” by Crystal Pirri and Mayra Porrata [pdf] Buy the book here.
      • Link to request infographic on how to reduce ECE stressors [link]
    • Self-awareness strategies
      • Superpowers Self-Assessment [link]
      • IEP superpowers quiz [link]
      • IEP/IFSP Superpowers quiz [link]
      • THRIVE activity [link]
      • WOOP [website] [app]
      • What we have control over [blog]
      • Saying no and setting boundaries [blog]
    • Self-regulation strategies
      • Setting personal and professional policies [blog] updated blog on setting policies, includes more examples of policies [link]
      • How to embed reflection into PD/coaching [blog]
    • Situational awareness strategies
      • Eco-mapping activity [pdf]
      • Getting clear on mission/core values [activity pdf] blog [link]
    • Social awareness strategies
      • Deep listening [blog]
      • Holding space for one another [link to article]
      • Asking honest open questions based upon the Center for Courage and Renewal [blog]
      • Empathy interview EI version [pdf]
      • Empathy interview ECE version [pdf]
      • Empathy Diamond: 5 facets of empathy – Dan Siegel
        • Perspective taking: seeing the world through the eyes of another
        • Emotional resonance: Feeling the feelings of another
        • Cognitive empathy: Understanding, or intellectually getting, another’s overall experience
        • Compassionate empathy: Sensing suffering and wanting to reduce it
        • Empathetic joy: Experiencing delight with the happiness, achievements, and well-being of another
      • Culture of empathy work by Dan Siegel [worthwhile rabbit hole]
    • Spirituality strategies
      • Get them moving download [pdf]
      • Tree of Contemplative Practices [link]
      • Book on contemplative practices in Higher Education [link to Good Reads]
      • Creating “results” lists instead of “to do” lists [blog]
      • Paradoxes in Pre-K: Three training videos [link to request]

Evaluation of your Deep Dive experience [link]