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Goal of this PD is to support the development of teaching skills of staff.

  • Specific skills
    • Leading an opening and closing circle
    • Leading a community builder
    • Teaching an SEL enrichment activity

This goal is achieved by selecting a lesson to review and discuss as a group.

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***Use ubuntu font & take notes throughout the whole PD to save the feedback. Share notes with manager.

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“Quote about SEL focus”

Insert SEL Focus

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Insert agenda and agreements(if you’ve already created some with the team use them)

Agenda (this will always be the structure of the agenda)

  1. Opening circle
  2. Lesson snapshot
  3. Review lesson & discuss
  4. Closing circle

Agreements

  • One mic (respect the speaker)
  • Step up step back (equity of voice)
  • Participate fully (remove distractions)

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Insert opening circle question (choose one that people will be able to answer quickly)

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Example questions:

One word to describe how you’re feeling today

One sound to describe how you’re feeling today

What song have you been listening to the most recently?

What’s the last tv show or movie you watched?

What’s the last thing you ate?

What’s the last thing you cooked?

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Lesson snapshot

SEL focus:

Title or number of lesson:

Goal of lesson: (insert in one sentence what the goal was supposed to be for the enrichment). Example: Students will learn each other’s names and share about themselves)

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Opening circle review (5 minutes)

Prompt: (insert what the prompt was for this lesson)

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Discussion questions:

  1. Do you like this prompt? (thumbs up, middle, down) **have a few people share out why
  2. If you used this prompt, how long did it take? (show the number on your hand)
  3. If you could improve the prompt, how would you change it? or What could have been a different prompt to use? **have a few people share out their ideas

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** italics are facilitation notes and shouldn’t be added to the slides

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Community builder review (10 minutes)

Title & description: (insert what the title and description of the community builder was for this lesson)

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Discussion questions:

  1. If you led the activity, did you like this activity? (thumbs up, middle, down) **have a few people share out why
  2. If you led the activity, how long did it take? (show the number on your hand) **comment on what seems to be the average number of minutes for people
  3. Share out highlights from the activity ** Tell people to share both the positives and the negatives. Call on a few people share out about their experience
  4. Challenges ***Ask a few people to share about any additional challenges they experienced with this activity or how can we make it more grade level friendly (Lower grades vs. Upper Grades for E.S.)
  5. Changes ***Ask a few people to share what they would change about the lesson

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Enrichment review (15-20 minutes)

Title & Description : (insert what the title and description of the enrichment activity was for this lesson)

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Discussion questions:

  1. If you taught this lesson, did you like this activity? (thumbs up, middle, down) **have a few people share out why. comment on what seems to be most people’s experience with the activity
  2. If you taught this lesson, how long did it take? (show the number on your hand) **comment on what seems to be the average number of minutes for people
  3. Share out highlights from the activity ** Call on a few people share out about their experience teaching this. Ask them to share both positive and negative things
  4. Challenges ***Ask a few people to share about any additional challenges they experienced with this activity
  5. Changes ***Ask a few people to share what they would change about the lesson

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** & italics are notes and shouldn’t be added to the slides

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Closing circle review (5 minutes)

Prompt: (insert what the prompt was for this lesson)

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Discussion questions:

  1. Do you like this prompt? (thumbs up, middle, down) **have a few people share out why.
  2. If you used it, how long did it take? (show the number on your hand)
  3. What could have been a different prompt to use?**have a few people share out their ideas.

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** & italics are notes and shouldn’t be added to the slides

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Insert closing circle prompt (choose one that people will be able to answer quickly)

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Example questions:

One word to describe how today felt

One sound to describe how today felt

One thing you liked about today

One thing that you wish was different about today

What’s something you’re looking forward to?

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