CREATING THE SCHOOL FAMILY

BOOK STUDY OVERVIEW

Creating the School Family: Bully-Proofing Classrooms Through Emotional Intelligence incorporates everything you need to successfully create and teach 12 classroom structures, integrating social-emotional well-being into your existing curriculum. Join us to systematically create a positive school climate, dramatically increase teaching time, foster academic success, eliminate bullying, and decrease behavioral issues.

TEXT: Creating the School family: Bully-Proofing Classrooms Through Emotional Intelligence by Dr. Becky Bailey

FACILITATOR: Sherry Barnard

TARGET AUDIENCE: Early Childhood, Elementary

DESCRIPTION: This 15-week book study will guide you through implementation of 12 CLASS© correlated strategies to foster the seven skills of discipline in your classroom. Collaborate with others, see examples, and get individual feedback on what your doing in an asynchronous learning environment.

COURSE STRUCTURE: Online Google Classroom

One Chapter per Week (worth 4 points) = 60 points

1 hour for the Chapter Reading

1 hour to respond to the guided conversation stimulus

1 hour to read others’ posts and reply to at least two other participants

1 hour for implementation

COURSE OVERVIEW:

Week 1: Foreword & Chapter 1 The School Culture: Why traditional models are a disadvantage to our children

• Reestablishing the foundation of community
• Changing our relationship with power
• Your Family of Origin
• Self-Regulation

Week 2: Chapter 2 The School Family: Using the power of connection to create school reform

• Optimizing brain development for physical, social, emotional, spiritual and academic success
• Providing an invisible set of assets called “family privilege”
• Fostering connects within the school so all members feel emotionally safe enough to experience conflict as a learning tool
• Creating a bully-proof climate based on safety, connection and problem solving rather than reward and punishment
• Using everyday life, conflicts and celebrations as the social-emotional curriculum
• Integrating social and Emotional learning into the teaching of academic standards
• Bringing the joy back into teaching

Week 3: Chapter 3 The School Family Structures: The foundation for emotionally intelligent classrooms

• Environmental Support for Self-regulation and Social Emotional Learning
• Emotionally Intelligent Classroom Structures
• How to TEACH values through Conscious Discipline

Week 4: Chapter 4 Friends and Family Board

• Friends and Family vs. Don’t Talk to Strangers!
• The Power of Unity: The extended Family Philosophy

Week 5: Chapter 5 The Safekeeper

• The Power of Being Brain Smart: Understanding the Impact of Stress on Learning
• Modeling Active Calming
• Starting Your Year
• Creating the Language of Safety: Commands and Verbal Reminders

Week 6: Chapter 6 Visual Rules and Routines

• Rules vs Routines
• Adding Visuals: The Antidote to Chaos
• Visual Rules with Two Positive Choices
• Lending Your Prefrontal Lobe to Your Students
• The Power of Free Will

Week7: Chapter 7 Ways to Be Helpful Board and Books

• Self-talk and Private Inner Speech
• The Power of Unity: Seeing the Call for Help in Compassionate Classrooms

Week 8: Chapter 8 Beginning the Day the Brain Smart Way

• Activity to Unite
• Activity to Disengage the Stress Response
• Activity to Connect
• Activity to Commit
• Benefits of the Brain Smart Start
• Yeah, But I don’t have time!

Week 9: Chapter 9 Safe Place

• The Power of Perception
• The Safe Place Teachers, Time Out Punishes

Week 10: Chapter 10 School Family Rituals

• Creating Rituals Vs Establishing Routines
• The Gift of a Ritual
• Relationship Resistant Children
• Power of Unity

Week 11: Chapter 11 Classroom Jobs

• Meaningful Contributions
• So Much to Do!
• Power of Unity

Week 12: Chapter 12 Time Machine

• The Problem with Conflict
• Bully Prevention: Teaching Children to be Assertive
• The Power of Attention

Week 13: Chapter 13 Celebration Center

• The Shift from Rewards to Celebration
• Cogitative Development and Awards
• But, Don’t Traditional Rewards Work?
• The Power of Love

Week 14: Chapter 14 We Care Center

• Empathy: Teaching Children to Care
• Power of Acceptance

Week 15: Chapter 15 Class Meetings

• Consequences
• The Development of the Prefrontal Lobes
• Class Meetings and Democracy
• The Power of Intention

Time Log for Professional Development Activity

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