BELIEVE: Reimagine Learning through Ted Lasso

Purpose & objective

The grace and aplomb exhibited by Ted during his travails in the Emmy-winning show offer a powerful guide for educators. His example highlights the best positive response to constantly changing circumstances and toxic negativity. The entire educational community could do well to adapt the approach of this fictional coach to provide the best possible learning environment for all students.

This session will provide participants with ready-to-use ideas for their classroom, school site, and community. Being curious, finding inspiration, and self-management and reflection are the key principles found throughout Ted Lasso. We will use our own classroom experience and lessons gleaned from our combined 45 years in education to share innovative ways to model equity and inclusion, empowering students and educational leaders to infuse SEL, team building and inspiring others to curiosity in attendees’ learning spaces.

This session also dedicates time to the discussion of how to approach adult learning, leveraging adult learning theory through engaging professional learning practice. We model solid professional learning practices, as learned through our careers leading ISTE sessions, affiliate CUE PL, Google Certified Training, and hundreds of hours of workshops, Lead Learning and other experiences. Turns out that instructional coaches can find a lot to learn from Coach Lasso!

Outline

-10-00 - Pre-Session Activity: Nearpod matching pairs game. Poll: Tiger or Panda?
00-03 - Message from a cast member
03-06 - Welcome & Introductions - Session Goals - Pronouns & Indigenous Land Acknowledgement
06-08 - The Why? Ted Lasso Clip (dart board scene from Season 1)
08-20 - Kindness
*Empathy
**Roy’s press conference (“none of us know what’s going on in each other’s lives”)
**Everyone’s going through something
**EQ schools
**CASEL
*Culturally Responsive Teaching
**Examples in show how Ted vs Higgins handle awkward moments
**DISCUSSION: How might you incorporate more culturally responsive practices?
**Wisconsin SEL Wheel
*Talk to the Duck
**CS concept that can be applied to encourage academic conversations in classrooms
20-34 Mentorship
*Psychological safety
**“Can’t be your mentor without occasionally being a tormentor”
**Google @ Work study
**“What do I have to learn here?”
**Dr. Amy Edmondson’s 7 questions to boost psychological safety at work / with students
**DISCUSSION: which of the 7 questions might you focus on in your learning environment?
*Be an Upstander
**“Just Work” by Kim Scott
**Coach Beard… doing better
34-48 Balance
*Healthy Habits
**Being “off your game”
**Therapy dogs
**ISTE article: Digital Wellness
*Growth
**Higgins: “moving towards better”
**“The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse”
**DISCUSSION: “What lessons have you taken from Ted Lasso to reimagine learning?”
48-60 - Wrap up/Q&A/Goodies to Share!

Supporting research

https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/
https://www.instructionalcoaching.com/research/
https://iste.org/explore/digital-citizenship/3-tips-balanced-digital-wellness
https://www.iste.org/explore/classroom/7-ways-creating-psychological-safety-students
https://www.inspirehub.com/blog/ask-these-7-questions-to-boost-psychological-safety-at-work