Dan Pink
...we want ENGAGED kids."
Non-commissioned creative work has many names:
- Genius Hour
- 20% Time, or 20-Time
- Innovation Days
Supervisors at some workplaces have had to get creative just with what they call this special work time, because often their superiors do not approve of the idea initially; they want their employees at their desks when they're supposed to be there. Genius Hour was developed as a result of one manager encouraging her employees to use their lunch hour to think of creative ways to improve the company.
Teachers have begun to jump on board with the non-commissioned creative work movement! This article I found at Edutopia details how 20% time is used effectively in the classroom.
Check out the following videos on Genius Hour and Innovation Days.
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Sir Ken Robinson
100 billion people have lived on this earth. And each of those lives have been different. Every life is unique. Every child is a possibility. Everybody has "special needs."It's not to do with what you've got. It's how you connect with what's inside of you. Help children understand, not just the world around them, but the world WITHIN them. | Teaching is not a monologue. It's a conversation. The great resource in the classroom is the combined wisdom in the room. | The Dalai Lama said to be born at all is a miracle. So what are you going to do with your life? Circumstances are not destiny.What drives human productivity is CREATIVITY. Life is organic.The lives we lead have everything to do with how open we are. |
Imagination is the seat of empathy.
Creativity is applied imagination.
Abilities are practiced aptitudes.
( Doing something you LOVE )
Life is Organic | No one can anticipate the path you're going to take. It's not linear. You create the path as you take it. |
Attitude is feeling that you're entitled to do this (whatever "this" is, whether it's a life goal, a career, etc.), and creating the opportunities to do it along the way. | Attitude |
Michael Sorrell | 1. Leave places better than you found them. |
Momentous Institute Fab Four:
Jessica Trudeau, Rhonda Vincent, Matt Leahy, Karen Dumas
Flash Focus on Trauma
The Bad News: Trauma2700 babies are born into poverty every day. High school dropouts will qualify for just 10% of available jobs by 2018 Toxic Stress is poisonous to the brain and gives children hair-trigger access to emotional memories. Poor parents are disproportionately young and find it harder to provide the emotional support children need. Poor kids are 6x more likely to be hit by a car. 1 million children are estimated to be misdiagnosed with mental illness, when they really may be dealing with something else, like toxic stress as a result of home conditions. | The Good News: PLAY"It's not what's wrong with you. It's what's happened to you." Adults put their trauma into words. Children put their trauma into PLAY. Play is fun. Play is safe. Play is EMPOWERING. Plato: "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." My thoughts: we can change the dynamic in the classroom and with our students by changing the way with think of those we label as "problem kids" and by incorporating more play into our day. We must make time for play, even for the older students. Remember, they are kids, too. |
Jessica Lahey"When we tell kids how smart/talented/gifted/etc. they are, we're setting them up. And they'll protect it at all costs." | Intrinsic Motivation:In order to be intrinsically motivated, one must feel:
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Glennon Doyle Melton
The first thing I learned about being a grown up: "Relationship is all that matters." "Stop being afraid of pain, and start being afraid of the 'easy buttons.'"Some of us are made more sensitive than others. They are the canaries in the coal mines, and we should listen to them, because they are a gift. They identify the "toxins in the air." | "Addiction is a box, where we protect ourselves. It's a glass wall we use to separate ourselves from the ones we love."Therapists want the hurt child/adult to come out. BUT...we've already been out there. We know what it's like. It hurts and we don't want to be thrown out into that chaos. | "Shame is the kiss of death." You can either be perfect and admired, or you can be real and loved.Regarding mental illness/sensitivity: We are afraid of what heals us. We have a suspicion that what is making us sick is also what's making us special. That's why we're afraid of our medicine. We need ART. |
"We must create
a smaller world for them
within which they can feel safe."
David Isay: | "It's impossible not to love someone whose story you've heard." |
Lou Cozolino
Learning is an outward expression of how experience has affected the brain. In traumatized patients, everywhere they go is where they've already been.In other words, a child who's been traumatized is constantly reliving that trauma everywhere he goes. Especially if the child is having to function in a place where the trauma took place. So if the trauma is unresolved, and she can't stop thinking about it, how is a girl in middle school supposed to concentrate and function normally? Relationship may be the key driver of social emotional change.Students do better with teachers they love. | Learning does NOT happen in the presence of fear, stress, trauma, or anxiety."LOVE is the antidote to stress." |
Attachment is like discovering a piece of your heart in another person's body. | Attachment = Survival Abandonment = Death Education in small scale societies is not a separate activity. Old people want to tell stories, and children want to hear stories. OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Tribal education was embedded in relationships, directly tied to survival, and geared toward the abilities of the individual. |
Kevin CarrollChildren can deal with some really heavy things by tapping into their imaginations.Dedication Responsibility Education Attitude (you get what you give) Motivation 3 Things:
| He started us off with a poem..."Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don't strive to make your presence noticed. Just make your absence felt." Circumstances don't dictate destiny.
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Books/Titles Mentioned
The Geography of Thought
The Element
"From Fish to Infinity"
Make it Stick