Course curriculum

    1. Origin of A School of Belonging

    2. Setting an Intention

    1. Essay 1. Significant Adults in Significant Times

    2. Introduction: Creating the Conditions for Emotional Safety

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    3. Module 1. Learning targets and anchor practices: Creating the Conditions for Emotional Safety

    4. Listen & Reflect: The Story of Howard Gray

    5. Read & Reflect: The Four Emotional Needs

    6. Listen and Reflect: Belonging and Emotional Safety

    7. Practice: Emotional Mapping

    8. Practice: A Community Meeting

    9. Listen: Community Meeting & Variations

    10. Building a caring classroom culture plan

    11. Review: Creating the Conditions for Emotional Safety

    12. Extending the Process

    13. Resources

    14. Feedback: Creating the conditions for emotional safety

    1. Essay 2. Teaching: A Dignified Calling

    2. Introduction: Naming the World of Learning

    3. Module 2. Learning targets and anchor practices: Naming the World

    4. Listen and consider: Dialogue

    5. Read: Naming the world of learning

    6. Read: 4 A’s of Learning

    7. Lesson: Teaching the 4 A's of learning

    8. Four A's of Learning Classroom Graphic

    9. Listen and reflect: Freire and the 4 A's of Learning

    10. Read: Naming the world through common language

    11. Listen: Ritual and Common Language

    12. Reflective Narrative: Rituals in the classroom

    13. Read: Listening

    14. Teaching Listening

    15. Process: Listening Wheel

    16. Practice: Feeling Words

    17. Feeling Words worksheet & exemplar

    18. Reviewing what we've learned: Naming the World

    19. Resources

    20. Feedback: Naming the World

    1. Essay 3. The Alchemy of a Loving Teacher

    2. Introduction: Resilient Pathways to Healing

    3. Learning targets and anchor practices: Resilience in Practice

    4. Reflective Narrative

    5. Read: Managing Life’s Challenges

    6. Practice: The 2x10 Strategy

    7. Read: Social Skills Development

    8. Reflective Narrative: Teaching Social Skills

    9. One: Listening

    10. Process: Listening Partner Guidelines

    11. Two: Empathy

    12. Three: Self-Responsibility

    13. Four: Solving Disagreements With Others

    14. Five: Goal-setting: leaving a legacy

    15. Reflective Narrative

    16. Summary: Resilience in Practice

    17. Resources

    18. Feedback: Resilience in Practice

    1. Essay 4. A Word Appeared

    2. Introduction: Empathy, Equity and Inclusion

    3. Learning Targets and Anchor Practices

    4. Listen: Can empathy be taught?

    5. Reflective narrative: Is empathy a teachable skill?

    6. Emotional Imprints: The origin of our value system

    7. E+R=O

    8. Reflective Narrative: Changing your response

    9. More on emotional imprints and the imprint model

    10. Reflective Narrative: Imprint action plan

    11. Emotional Intelligence & Emotional Literacy

    12. Seven Emotional Intelligence Competencies

    13. Reflective Narrative: Imprints cannot be erased

    14. Summary: Empathy, Equity, & Inclusion

    15. Resources

    16. Feedback: Empathy, Equity & Inclusion

    1. Essay 5. Walking the Path of Belonging

    2. Introduction: Focus: An entry to connecting with others

    3. Reflective narrative: An Inability to Focus

    4. Learning Targets and Anchor Practices

    5. Listen: Focus & Intention

    6. Read: Focus in Practice

    7. Inner Focus: Practices

    8. Teaching mindfulness to 8th graders in PS/MS 20 Bronx, NY

    9. Inner focus through the singing bowl

    10. Watch: Ritualizing Focus with the Singing Bowl

    11. Outer Focus Practices

    12. Other Focus: Practices

    13. Review | Focus: An entry to connecting with others

    14. Resources

    15. Feedback: Focus: An entry to connecting with others

About this course

  • $149.00
  • 86 lessons

Blueprints for Belonging Badge Program in Partnership with Teaching Empathy Institute

The Blueprints for Belonging Badge Program in partnership with Teaching Empathy Institute, has been designed for educational professionals who are passionate about developing a culture of caring and compassion in their schools and classrooms. The Blueprints for Belonging process creates the conditions, skills and practices for empathy, inclusion, and self-expression for all members of the school community.

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