Maximizing Student Investment & Relationships Do Now: Take 8 minutes to complete the Do-Now On your sticky tag write: Your character trait from question 1 The influential person from question 2 Reality & Vision percentages from question 3

Chrissy Gratz, Charlotte '09

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WHAT: Session Outcomes In this session you will be able to…. 1. Analyze the traits and values that define your past and the role those play in your present and future 2. Share those traits and values and facilitate that same reflection process with students & families 3. Use the information you’ve gathered from students and families to create an investment system that connects personal and academic achievement Leave with… - Action plan for gathering & learning about the strengths and hopes of students and families - Initial plan to build authentic investment among students

1 2 3 4 Agenda WHY: Opening & Why? WHAT: Research & Steps To Building Investment 3 HOW: Strategies & Plans for Each Step 4 WHEN: Work Time, On the Radar, Commitments Moving Forward

What: Is Trending… #Teachers believing their primary goal is to focus on academic growth and only a little bit on personal growth #Teacher and student relationships are primarily at the surface level #Teachers set limits on what relationships are like with students and families #Teachers desire students to be intrinsically invested, without supporting them in that process # #

WHAT: Does the Research Say? Focus has moved to academic growth based on increase in high stakes testing ECE & Elementary has been purposefully embedding personal growth into academics because of it’s impact on student achievement A meta-analysis of 317 different studies (324,303 students) showed that students, on average, grew 11-17 percentile points when their academic experience also included an emphasis on social and emotional learning.

WHAT: Does the Research Say? Reflecting on your time from Summer Training, through last year, and up to now more broadly: What did you believe or what do you think has helped you get to this place? Did you find the work you were doing each day valuable? Did you feel part of a community (grade level/school/TFA)? Did you see that over time you were growing in your practice? Did you experience success at some point that kept you going? What might be the impact if students had these same mindsets/beliefs about their academic experience?

WHAT: Does the Research Say? Five non cognitive factors that impact a student’s academic performance:

When students regulate themselves, they are invested in themselves WHAT: Self Regulation Rubric When students regulate themselves, they are invested in themselves Regulated by Others (teacher, adult, family) Regulate Peers Regulate Themselves Ultimate Goal

WHAT: Steps Need to Happen Step 1: Reflect, model, share your investment with students Step 2: Getting to know students & families in an authentic way Step 3: Using this information to plan & execute toward your classroom culture visions ….to reach the goal of students authentically investing in themselves

1 2 3 4 Agenda WHY: Opening & Why? WHAT: Research & Steps To Building Investment 3 HOW: Strategies & Plans for Each Step 4 WHEN: Work Time, On the Radar, Commitments Moving Forward

Step 1: Reflect, model, share your investment with students The do-now was purposeful to prompt you to realize how deep you need to be thinking about yourself Model how to authentically share about yourself, so students can do the same Email you a more complete reflection guide to prep further

Step 2: Getting To Know Students & Families in an Authentic Way Questions to Answer? How can I create and execute a plan to invest students in their personal development if I don’t have the “right” information to about them?

Step 2: Getting To Know Students & Families in an Authentic Way Answer: Stories matter! We can’t just pick some character traits to push my class toward, because that isn’t being critically culturally competent. If you plan for investment that isn’t authentic to the students you lead, then you will not reach your ideal % for educating the whole student. Specifically ways to build relationships with students & families both inside and outside of the classroom.

Concrete Strategy for Inside the Classroom: Step 2: Getting To Know Students & Families in an Authentic Way Concrete Strategy for Inside the Classroom: Start by sharing your full reflection as a way of telling students more about you as a person, not just as an academic Lead students to complete the same sort of reflection process that you modeled for them Authentic and intentional way for you to get to know your students, and for them to get to know each other beyond that of a trendy icebreaker

Concrete Strategies for Outside the Classroom: Step 2: Getting To Know Students & Families in an Authentic Way Concrete Strategies for Outside the Classroom: Phone call home Family Survey Home visits Community events Back-to-school night, for families/influencers Student activities Parent drop off/pick up

Create an action plan for both inside and outside of the classroom: Strengthen your strategies for building relationships to maximize getting the “right” information to inform your investment plan. Create an action plan for both inside and outside of the classroom: How am I going to introduce my authentic self to students/families? When and what am I doing in class to get to know students in an authentic way? When am I sending home a family survey, what questions will it include? Who am I going to call when?

…now Step 3!

Step 3: Using Information to Plan & Execute Toward Your Vision Questions to Answer? I have all the information I need, but now what? How do I plan and execute toward students being invested in themselves using their authentic stories knowing I have so many students?!

To Strengthen Academic Mindsets! Creating An Investment System Creating an investment system that involves the entire class – to build community. That recognizes students that are going above and beyond – and shows them that their efforts correlate to greater success. That highlights that they are capable and can succeed at many different things and that they’re amazing people. That zooms in on the value of what they’re doing – so they see that it’s valuable for reaching their individual goals. To Strengthen Academic Mindsets!

Step 3: Using Information to Plan & Execute Toward Your Vision Concrete Strategies for making this come alive for your students : Use best practices to create a system that rewards students for going above and beyond – behaviorally & academically Introduce that system to students Make a plan to purposefully incorporate the system into class each day

WHEN…Work Time Assume you already have the information you need to purposefully plan for student investment… Create a plan that includes how you are going to make student investment part of your every day routine that highlights student voice. Options (3 groups) - Work independently - Work with others People that do not need to influence and motivate someone in using this system (full autonomy) People that do need to influence and motivate someone (colleague/co-teacher, grade level team, instructional coach, administrator) in creating a concrete way of investing students

What’s on the RADAR! October: Investment is rolled out…now what? Reflecting and refining your culture vision to meet the needs of students to push toward a PUJC classroom! November: Using classroom culture surveys to get the culture info you need from students and families to adjust course January: Planning, executing and facilitating more student ownership through the lens of “dominant culture classroom” based on Gloria Ladson Billing’s book Dreamkeepers

Next Steps Send what you have so far to your MTLD. Share how you want them to hold you accountable? How are you going to build stronger relationships with students/families in order to learn more about their strengths and aspirations? What is your investment system going to look like? How will you recognize students for going above and beyond in order to build academic mindsets? How will you embed this into your content each day? Complete the exit ticket so classroom culture sessions can best meet your needs moving forward