Children's Village Academy
How to Effective Communicate and Connect with EVERYONE!
Watch each video utilize the workbook to deepen your understanding and collect your action steps.
Part 2: Communication Practices and Principles (Part 2)
Part 3: Communication and Connecting Principles (Part 3)
From the May 15th Session on Inspiring Classroom Management:
Preparation before the Session
Follow-up after the Session
Everything you need to raise your DESCA
The recorded video of our session
- For the first 29 minutes, we dive into the survey results about CVA's current strengths and challenges.
- At minute 18:20, we dive into the Key Levers to creating an inspiring classroom.
- At minute 29:48, we start the conversation about the 5 Student Potentials, DESCA. Go to that point in the video to learn more about DESCA, to hear the team talk about their assigned Student Potential, and their recommendation for making that Student Potential stronger at CVA.
From the May 28th Session on Parent Engagement
Some great ideas that I heard during the session include
Building a Volunteer Committee
Engaging parents multiple ways
Being a stalker (i.e., persistent presence) for your families to meet their needs and build engagement and achievement
Be a source of hope for your community, especially your students
Never give up! There's always a way.
Continue to build this list with the resources shared yesterday and in this email. You'll find links to the PowerPoint Presentation, the Audio Recording, and the Video Recording below.
Please find additional documents that I referenced during the presentation here
Don't let today's realities limit tomorrow's potential. Your parents might say they are busy, but they love their kids. Find on-ramps to engagement that they CANNOT resist.
From the August 28, 2020 Session: Building a Positive School Culture
Here are the 6 commitments that CVA made during this session:
- Make Collaboration the Norm.
- Clarify and Communicate Values.
- Encourage New Ideas.
- Welcome New Folks.
- Make Gossip a No-No.
- Make Trust a Yes-Yes.
Over 60% committed to #1. The more you communicate your commitment and work on making a change, the more change you will make!
From the September 25 Session on Conflict Resolution
Use your DISC Personality Assessment to raise your awareness of how you are being received wherever you go! Whether it's in the classroom or in the conference room, be aware of the personalities in the room along with the needs and strengths of each personality, then shape your presentations, comments, and questions so that you will be heard loud and clear. You will still have conflicts, but you will be able to resolve them with solutions that everyone is happy with.
Here is some insight into each personality:
With the...
D: Get to the point!
I: Be more excited!
S: Slow down a lot!
C: Realize they think they are always right!
Preparing for each personality style will help you be understood and will help you understand, and when clarity abounds, so does certainty.
Conflict Resolution PowerPoint can be found here
From the October 24 Session on Assessment and Accountability
We dove into John Hattie's work based on his book, Visible Learning, where he discusses the effect size of teaching strategies so that teachers and administrators understand what works and what doesn't work when teaching students.
Class size and homogenous grouping have a very low effect size, but teaching vocabulary and building relationships have a very high effect size. Adding a few high-effect strategies into every classroom will have a big impact on learning at Children's Village!
Here are the three major messages for teachers from John Hattie:
Have:
- Transparent Goals.
- Clear Success Criteria.
- Rapid Formative Feedback.
There were questions about the research and its relevance to CVA's student population. Please read this article that addresses that concern: Poverty Matters, But Not the Way You Think
Watch the video of our session here. Alternatively, you can listen to the audio version of our session here.
Here's a link to the PowerPoint with the videos embedded
From the November 21 Session on 10 Action Steps based on Ruby Payneโs book: A Framework for Understanding Poverty.
In this session, we discuss immediate actions that you can take for improved success for your students. We focused on two action steps:
- Building relationships of mutual respect.
- Analyzing the resources of your students and creating interventions based on the resources that students have access to.
Watch the video of our session here. Alternatively, you can listen to the audio version of our session here.
From the December 11th Session on 10 Action Steps based on Ruby Payne’s book: A Framework for Understanding Poverty.
In this session, we discuss immediate actions that you can take for improved success for your students. We focused on three action steps:
- Teach abstract processes.
- Teach mental models.
- Teach students how to plan.
Watch the video of our session here. Alternatively, you can listen to the audio version of our session here.
Here's a link to the PowerPoint with the videos embedded.
What Next Steps Will You Take?
Based on this lesson, what action steps will you take? How will you improve your communication and ability to connect?
