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Finding Our North Star

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Sharing

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Guidelines & Values:

  • Confidentiality
  • Speaking and Listening from the heart
  • Speaking and Listening with respect
  • Honoring the talking piece

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Purpose/Goal:

  • Share out our personal constellations and define our collective North Star
  • Discuss SEL & Circles as a means for connection and reflection in the classroom

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Finding Our North Star - The OV Way

  • Share out our personal constellations & North Stars. (sequential)
  • What are our shared values & beliefs? (non-sequential)
  • What brings us together? (non-sequential)
  • Define our North Star (think, pair, share)

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Connection and Reflection

What does social-emotional learning mean to you and your teaching? (non-sequential)

Passing notes:

Consider the images on the right, What thoughts or wonderings do you have in relation to our north stars?

Do you envision using circles in the school year? What might that look like?

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(CASEL)