1. "Reform the environment. Stop trying to reform people. They will reform themselves if the environment is right.” ~ Buckminster Fuller Part 3 Creating Classroom Community: How?

2. Flow Foundations: What is a sense of community? Why create a sense of community in schools? Creating Conditions Intentionality, Safe & Trusting Environment Balancing Me & We, Ownership, Positivity Facilitator Knowledge Sequencing and Flow of activities Group Development Processing the Experience Application

3. Protocols for CCC Assume good intentions Ouch/Oops (Spinach in the teeth rule) Right to Pass Confidentiality

4. The Best Workshop Ever Facilitators Active and engaging forms of presentation and multiple ways of accessing information Be able to move around and do things Leave early if it makes sense More experiential and varied activities Purposeful work outside of class Help to coordinate food Ideas and materials useful for the classroom/setting

5. The Best Workshop Ever Everyone Sharing the air Put ups – encouragement, acknowledgement Look for the good and positive Keep it light Bring food Positive energy Make your learning needs known Watching our humor – especially sarcastic humor You can only volunteer yourself

6. Reflection Guiding Questions What are you learning and how will you present it?

7. Facilitation In teaching physical education where my goal is to have students moving as much of the class time as possible, how much time can I spend on the discussion portion, which is so valuable in creating a caring classroom? ~ Phil How do we effectively influence and apply these principles to adult work situations? ~ Mary N. How can I refocus my energy and move beyond the narrow vision of community building in my school? ~ Karen I’m curious about the role of the facilitator – From leader to consultant. The satisfaction of seeing kids develop leadership and feeling empowered about their learning is the ultimate satisfaction as a teacher. How do you get a group to that point? ~ Catherine

8. Skills Development/Tools What are the problem solving strategies students can use that will help them grow academically, socially, and physically during community building activities? ~ Gerry What activities will support, enhance, kindness in our building? ~ Honer How do I (as a teacher) get my students to practice good participation? ~ Pam I want to create a “tool kit” to use when creating a caring classroom. Activities that let students know that as a visitor I can be trusted to make the time at school worthwhile ~ Anne What strategies/resources/tools (activities) can be used to promote/enhance skills for social-emotional growth & development so that each student can reach their fullest potential physically, academically, and personally? ~ Gladys

9. Struggling Groups How do you build community with a very mobile, damaged, and dysfunctional class? ~ Wendy How do I create (or start to create) community in a class of students who have many social, emotion, cognitive, and behavioral challenges? ~ Tom How can I apply this process and these activities to a class and population that is very mobile / nebulous / consistently angry, etc…..? ~ Pat I want to build a stronger classroom community… When to transition, especially when they are struggling? ~ Malisa

10. Integrating with Content What strategies/activities exist that allow teachers to integrate community building activities with academic lessons and standards? ~ Caroline How do I take the ideas and activities I’ve learned here and better tie in academic content for an overall integration? ~ Amy Can I have help creating purpose boards for creating a sharing classroom? Can I have help integrating these activities into my units? ~ Joman

11. Processing the Experience

12. We should be careful to get out of experience only the wisdom that is in it, and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well, but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. ~ Mark Twain

13. From Frank, L.S. (2004). Journey Toward the Caring Classroom. Oklahoma City, OK: Wood ‘N’ Barnes Publishing (p. 247)

14. Did you notice?… Why did that happen? Does that happen in real life? How can you use that? Experiential Learning CycleDavid Kolb Why does that happen? WHAT? SO WHAT? NOW WHAT? interpretation

15. Reflection Tools and Strategies Ratings Words and Drawings Metaphorical Artistic Activities And more… WHAT DID YOU NOTICE…?

16. Integrating with Curriculum

17. Happens all the time Is a natural way to learn Experimentation Exploration Example Empathy EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING…

18. Harnesses the natural power of EL Is a formal way to support learning Shared philosophy, different methodologies EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION

19. Wilderness Education Adventure Based Counseling Inquiry Service Learning Art, Play, Music, Drama & related Therapies Simulations Experience Based Training and Development Environmental Education Internships Expeditionary Learning Adventure/Challenge Education Philosophy of Experiential Education And more… Equine Assisted Therapy Cooperative Education Project Based Learning Problem Based Learning Adventure Education

21. Inquiry Cycle FRONTLOADING ASKING QUESTIONS GATHERING INFORMATION & CONSTRUCTING KNOWLEDGE MAKING KNOWLEDGE VISIBLE PRESENTATION & FEEDBACK Activating Prior knowledgeProviding background Information

22. FRONTLOADING ASKING QUESTIONS GATHERING INFORMATION & CONSTRUCTING KNOWLEDGE MAKING KNOWLEDGE VISIBLE PRESENTATION & FEEDBACK

25. Collaboration Shared responsibility Roles Had parts not the whole Play on people’s strengths Letting people know what you need Practice Familiarity Contingencies Planning/strategizing

26. Collegiality Concert, joint action, co-acting, sharing, commonality, united, concurrence, interdependent, joining of hands, common effort, common enterprise or endeavor

27. Collegiality The Cooperative interaction among colleagues

28. Concur, harmonize, go into partnership with, get together and team up and buddy up, pull together, hold together, hang together, keep together, stand shoulder-to- shoulder Collaboration

29. To work jointly with others or together, especially in an intellectual endeavor Collaboration

30. Alphabet Team Exercise How did we get there? Information: Synonyms, Definitions Collegiality/Collaboration How do we do this in our situation? Self Assessment Theme: TEAMWORK Concept: COLLABORATION

31. FRONTLOADING ASKING QUESTIONS GATHERING INFORMATION & CONSTRUCTING KNOWLEDGE MAKING KNOWLEDGE VISIBLE PRESENTATION & FEEDBACK Oh Deer! Graph & Reflection Questions Graph Interpretation Lecture/Discussion about Carrying Capacity Choose One: Human population growth Extinction of plant/animal Hunting Impact BALANCE Carrying Capacity Theme: BALANCE Concept: CARRYING CAPACITY

32. The wise leader does not intervene unnecessarily. The leader’s presence is felt, but often the group runs itself. Lesser leaders do a lot, say a lot, have followers, and form cults. Even worse ones use fear to energize the group and force to overcome resistance. Only the most dreadful leaders have bad reputations. Remember that you are facilitating another person’s process. It is not your process. Do not intrude. Do not control. Do not force your own needs and insights into the foreground.

33. If you do not trust a person’s process, that person will not trust you. Imagine that you are a midwife; you are assisting at someone else’s birth. Do good without show or fuss. Facilitate what is happening rather than what you think ought to be happening. If you must take the lead, lead so that the mother is helped, yet still free and in charge. When the baby is born, the mother will rightly say: “We did it ourselves!” ~ Lao Tzu

34. Homework Prepare for presentation Processing and experience? Prepare/try an experiential lesson?