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Great website for instructional practices, restorative practices, project based learning, and Social Emotional Learning.

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George Lucas Educational Foundation

The benefits of movement in the classroom aren't limited to younger students. Pairing new words and concepts with gestures or dance moves locks in understanding-and active brain breaks prime students to learn even more.

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A free source of information, inspiration, and practical strategies for learning and teaching in preK-12 education.

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Student Collaboration Boards... The best!

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Indigenous Restorative Circle Training

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Social Emotional Learning. I refer to the wheel often when designing coursework and think of activities. MPS has Quick Checks connected to these competencies.

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Advancing Social and Emotional Learning - CASEL

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CASEL is helping make evidence-based social and emotional learning an integral part of education, preschool through high school.

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A great resource for PBL and I have used it in the past for tracking projects and keeping myself and students organized in PBL.

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Foundry Project-based and Personalized Deeper Learning Software

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Make project-based learning easier with Foundry. We engage students in the learning process, dramatically reduce paperwork and compile performance-based assessment in an easy-to-search format.

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Our classrooms go-to for how-to videos. This local company has donated tools to us and has the best manual in the business.

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Park Tool has over 100 how-to articles to help you repair and maintain your bicycle. Find repair help by keyword, category, or clicking using the bike diagram.

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A great resource for PBL. I was trained in PBL from this group. I use the project planning resources and go here to get ideas.

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Project Based Learning is increasingly recognized as a powerful instructional practice, both in the United States and around the world. More and more educators are using project-based methods to engage their students toward meaningful, deeper learning. However, not all project based experiences are created equal ...

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This is the framework we use as an Instructional Specialist cohort in MPS. We are currently working through the Coaching for Equity framework Great resource for coaching and leading teams!

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Learn to lead coaching conversations, professional development, and teams that transform schools into joyful, resilient, and equitable places of learning. You're committed to building a more just and equitable organization and world, but you need support navigating the path forward. We'll help you turn your aspiration into a reality.

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A great site for seeing what others are doing related to SEL. Many case studies and articles.

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Find resources to help students manage their emotions, resolve conflicts, and make responsible decisions—creating the healthiest school culture possible.

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Why Exploring

Exploring provides exciting activities and mentorship for youth looking to discover their future. Whether you're a local organization looking to strengthen the community or a young person wanting to uncover the possibilities of your future, Exploring is a great place to start.

Learn more about why you should get involved

TESTIMONIALS

"You can actually see young people grow, becoming members of the community as their curiosity is satisfied through Exploring. We attract sharp young people during their formative years." - Hal Shevers, Exploring Adult Volunteer

"Exploring is a great program that helped me associate the concepts I am learning in high school with practical uses in the real world." - Frank B., Exploring Youth Participant

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Exploring provides exciting activities and mentorship for youth looking to discover their future. Whether you're a local organization looking to strengthen the community or a young person wanting to uncover the possibilities of your future, Exploring is a great place to start.

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I love Brene! Great resource for coaching and leading teams.

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I've spent twenty years studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, and I recently completed a seven-year study on brave leadership. The goal of Dare to Lead is to share everything we've learned about taking off the armor and showing up as leaders in a skills-based and actionable playbook. Here are a few of the big ideas that emerged from this research:

You can't get to courage without rumbling with vulnerability. Embrace the suck.

Daring leadership is a collection of four skill sets that are 100% teachable, observable, and measurable. The foundational skill set of courage-building is "rumbling with vulnerability." Once we have built these rumbling skills, we can move on to the other three skill sets: Living into Our Values, Braving Trust, and Learning to Rise. Our ability to be daring leaders will never be greater than our capacity for vulnerability.

Self-awareness and self-love matter. Who we are is how we lead.

The greatest barrier to courageous leadership is not fear-it's how we respond to our fear. Our armor-the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that we use to protect ourselves when we aren't willing and able to rumble with vulnerability-move us out of alignment with our values, corrode trust with our colleagues and teams, and prevent us from being our most courageous selves.

To scale daring leadership and build courage in teams and organizations, we have to cultivate a culture in which brave work, tough conversations, and whole hearts are the expectation, and armor is not necessary or rewarded. We have to be vigilant about creating a culture in which people feel safe, seen, heard, and respected.

The skill sets that make up courage are not new; they've been aspirational leadership skills for as long as there have been leaders. We just haven't had the courage for real talk about courage. But it's time. And if you want to call these "soft skills" after you've tried putting them into practice-go for it. I dare you. Until then, find a home for your armor, and I'll see you in the arena.

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Daring leadership requires brave work, tough conversations, and showing up with our whole hearts.

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I love Brene Brown and find inspiration through her work. Great classroom ideas and resources!

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Our classroom google site. WIP!

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Book Wizard: Find and Level Books for Your Classroom | Scholastic

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Level your classroom library, create book lists, and find the right book at just the right reading level for students with Book Wizard.

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Aw snap! Google Earth isn't supported on your browser. You may need to update your browser or use a different browser. Please see our system requirements for more information. Chrome is a great choice and you can download it here.

Or if you're feeling adventurous, you can try Earth anyway by choosing an option below.

Learn more about Google Earth.

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It's common for teachers and schools to turn to holiday-themed worksheets and projects at this time of year. But for some students, these are not inclusive of their cultures, identities and traditions. Here are some LFJ resources that offer ways to find balance in your curriculum and facilitate classroom discussions around inclusion while respecting religious and non-religious differences.

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Learning for Justice | Education Resources

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Learning for Justice provides free resources to educators-teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners-who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.

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I love the Making Thinking Visible framework and refer to this site for instructional strategies.

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A great resource for plans and rubrics.

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PBL leads to deeper understanding and greater retention of content knowledge

PBLWorks offers online and in-person Project Based Learning workshops and courses for educators seeking to give their students more. Whether you are new to Project Based Learning, advancing your practice, teaching in-person, or facilitating PBL curricula online, we have a path just for you. Pick your pathway and explore how to get started today...

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Project Based Learning for all. We build the capacity of teachers and school leaders to design and facilitate quality Project Based Learning.

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Check out these posts for more information on successfully implementing PBL in your classroom!

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For coaching conversations and observations

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Iceberg Concept of Culture Images and PDF's | PBS LearningMedia

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These four JPEG/PDF images can be used in your classroom when discussing surface culture and deep culture. It is recommended that you use the JPEG images for projection and the PDF for handouts. Also, it might be helpful to have a conversation about what students view as what their culture is first before leading them into a conversation about what is surface culture and deep culture.

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We believe that human beings are instilled with the need to connect and grow with each other, but not the methods. Here at the International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP), we provide our students with the tools they need to effect change within their own lives as well as their schools, their organizations, and their communities. Through intimate learning communities of faculty and students, we teach together, we learn together, and we strive to effect real change. Together.

Restorative practices is a field within the social sciences that studies how to strengthen relationships between individuals as well as social connections within communities. Learn more

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IIRP Graduate School :: Institute for Restorative Practices

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The International Institute for Restorative Practices is the world's first accredited graduate school that specializes in studying the field of restorative practices, providing education, research, and consulting services.

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What are Restorative Practices?

Restorative practices (RP) are drawn from the traditions of Indigenous people and communities of color around the world. They are grounded in a belief that people are profoundly relational, interconnected and inherently good. Restorative practices include ways of creating community that honors the importance of relationships amongst all members in the community; as well as practices to repair relationships when harm has been caused. RP address the needs all people impacted by the harm.

By using restorative practices in the school, people get to know one another and build relationships with each other, which is key element to learning, bullying prevention, and creating a positive school climate for students and adults. Key principles guide the practices.

The Practices of a Restorative School are formal and informal practices that transfer the restorative mindset into the daily lived experiences of school. Specifically, the practices include but are not limited to:

Practices that develop the restorative mindset:

Build community among adults

Examine your own relationship to harm

Explore implicit bias, historical trauma and resilience

Practices that build community:

Empathetic communication, which includes listening with care and curiosity, and speaking using the language of feeling, of empathy

Circles to build and maintain relationships, to teach, to meet, to problem-solve, to provide ongoing support

Practices that respond to harm:

Restorative questions used in a chat or conversations with one or two people

Circle or conferencing with a group of people affected by harm, using the restorative questions.

These practices are used to build healthy relationships and to create community in school, develop a positive school climate, prevent bullying and harm, and help repair harm. Restorative practices apply equally to everyone in the school community: students, adults, families and community members.

Restorative Mindset

Restorative practices are based in the belief that all people are worthy and relational, that "all humans have gifts and everyone is needed for what they bring."(1) Supporting this mindset of interconnectedness and relationships is an awareness and understanding of trauma, the impact of racism and implicit bias in our daily interactions. The development of a includes reflection upon and knowledge about power, privilege, history, race, justice and language.(2)

Implementing Restorative Practices in Schools

The Minnesota Department of Education developed Restorative Practices Implementation Guidance to provide school districts and schools with guidance and resources to help them integrate restorative practices into schoolwide climate, discipline, equity, and teaching and learning practices.

Administrator's Checklist for RP Implementation

Circle Outlines for Adult Learning

Restorative Practices in Schools Program Directory

Restorative Practices in Schools Videos

Restorative Practices in Schools Books and Manuals

Restorative Practices in Schools Websites

Restorative Interventions for Bullying Toolkit

Restorative Approach to Mask-Wearing
Talking About Masks and Kindness
Holding a Virtual Gathering Using Circle Principles
Staff Support Sessions
Contributors

Members of the Circle Advisory Team provided language, insight, recommendations and comment to the development of this document. Minnesota Department of Education staff also contributed to the development of these documents.

References

Boyes-Watson, C., and Pranis, K. (2015) Circle Forward: Building a Restorative School Community. Living Justice Press, St. Paul, MN.

(2)Winn, M. (2018). Justice on Both Sides: Transforming Education Through Restorative Justice Harvard Educational Press, Cambridge, MA.

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Restorative practices (RP) are drawn from the traditions of Indigenous people and communities of color around the world. They are grounded in a belief that people are profoundly relational, interconnected and inherently good. Restorative practices include ways of creating community that honors the importance of relationships amongst all members in the community; as well as practices to repair relationships when harm has been caused.

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The evidence is in the practice

ESSA Level 3 correlation evidence in math and ELA, earned by teachers running frequent formative assessments.

When teachers run 30+ formative questions a week, the research is clear: they get more data-driven, their students get more engaged. Wayground is built to make that practice enjoyable ot run, attainable to fit a class period, and habitual enough to last past September.

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Quizizz is now Wayground | Teacher AI and Resources

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Find standards-aligned resources that engage every student. Wayground (formerly Quizizz) helps teachers differentiate instruction with AI and track student progress.

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Kahoot! | Learning games | Make learning awesome!

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Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that brings engagement and fun to 1+ billion players every year at school, at work, and at home.

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Wordwall - Create better lessons quicker

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Need a fresh teaching resource that fits your class and teaching style? Create a customized pack of interactive and printable activities in just one minute.