How to Grow Minds without Shrinking Your Heart
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Colorado Convention Center, Bluebird Ballroom 3GH
Presenters

Session description
Purpose & objective
- Explore the happiness research, implications for productivity levels, and implications for ourselves, our colleagues, and students
- Uncover strategies for making the workload more manageable, including how to make decisions about what matters most when it comes to growing meaningful levels of learning for students.
-Investigate high leverage instructional moves for engaging students in meaningful learning that require little planning when executed with intentionality
-Leave empowered with strategies to bring joy, fun, connection, and hope back into our lives and into our classrooms and school.
Outline
Over the course of an hour presentation, participants will laugh, cry, reflect, and walk out of the room with a renewed sense of passion for our work as educators and with a sense that they have what it takes to do great work without losing themselves in the process.
Intro (10 minutes)
- Explore the happiness research, implications for productivity levels, and implications for ourselves, our colleagues, and students. (10 minutes)
- Uncover strategies for making the workload more manageable, including how to make decisions about what matters most when it comes to growing meaningful levels of learning for students. (10 minutes)
-Investigate high leverage instructional moves for engaging students in meaningful learning that require little planning when executed with intentionality (10 minutes)
-Leave empowered with strategies to bring joy, fun, connection, and hope back into our lives and into our classrooms and school. (15 minutes)
Closing (5 minutes)
Supporting research
Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Peter Lijedahl, et. al.
The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker
Shawn Achor, Big Potential
Dr. Laurel Mellin, Wired for Joy
Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project
Dan & Chip Heath, Big Potential
Session specifications
Empowering Leader
- Empower educators to exercise professional agency, build teacher leadership skills and pursue personalized professional learning.