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Tours and Experiences in the city of Detroit, Michigan. Learn about the old, come see what's new, and be surprised by what you never knew.

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Select a superhero or supervillain and diagnose him/her with a psychological disorder

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Sidewalk chalk review outside of B-wing

Escape room with coded message from WWII

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Online discussions from podcasts for IB juniors and seniors; full-paragraph responses

Is it worthwhile for historians to discuss counterfactuals?

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In Michigan History for public issues, groups take on topics like road construction and create a blog with information.

Trip to Lansing is always great.

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Historical source documents provided by Choices curriculum

Planning new 6/7 organization to reflect IB base better

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Sociology
Students learn about deviant behavior and social norms, then do a project to go somewhere (filmed) and break a social norm, then analyze it, such as sitting down with someone at random in a food court and strike up a conversation.

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Choices projects have unlocked deeper learning as students dialogue whether to declare war and whether that is better for the nation (1812)

Middle school attended Michigan Youth in Government and investigating for high school next year

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Live, active quiz

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Resources available for all levels on the school website. Students can check out books from libraries all over Michigan and they are delivered to school

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Wide variety of tools for class use, like Breaking News Generator, timers, FakeBook entries.

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Russel Tarr, International School of Toulouse

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ClassTools.net: Create your own interactive learning resources

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Dozens of templates, quiz generators and learning tools for use in the classroom

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Ideas and solutions

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Have a short conversation with each student at least once during the school year.

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Assure that students are capable of scholarly writing and recognize the difference between it and conversational text.

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Kanban board with:

To be discussed

Discussing

Discussed

Students write discussion questions on a Post-It note and the topic moves through the pipeline by using dot voting. Set a 7-minute time limit on this topic, then take a thumb vote on whether to move on or continue.

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WHAT IS LEAN COFFEE(tm)?

Lean Coffee is a structured, but agenda-less meeting. Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking. Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated. There are currently dozens of Lean Coffees happening world-wide, including Seattle, San Francisco, Stockholm, Toronto, Boulder, New York City, and more.

WHERE DID LEAN COFFEE START?

Lean Coffee started in Seattle in 2009. Jim Benson and Jeremy Lightsmith wanted to start a group that would discuss Lean techniques in knowledge work - but didn't want to start a whole new cumbersome organization with steering committees, speakers, and such. They wanted a group that did not rely on anything other than people showing up and wanting to learn or create.

Now, Seattle Lean Coffee happens every week, is very popular, and requires only that someone who has been there before shows up - and even then it's just so they know where we stash the post-it notes.

HOW DOES LEAN COFFEE WORK?

The format for a Lean Coffee is very simple. This is intentional. It is meant to be the least structure necessary for a coherent and productive meeting. No more, no less.

In this Personal Kanban we have the items to discuss, what we are currently discussing, and the discussed columns.

This provides a structure for the conversation. Next we populate it

2. What to Discuss

People all get pads of post-it notes and a pen. They then start to add their topics for conversation into the "to discuss" column. These can be literally whatever people want to discuss or follow a theme. Right now, we want to encourage as many unique ideas as we can.

When the ideas start reach a certain point (an you'll be the best judge of when that is), each topic gets a 1 to 2 sentence introduction. This way people know what to vote for.

3. Vote and Talk

Each participant gets two votes. You can vote twice for the same thing or for two different topics. Simple put a dot on the sticky you are interested in. Tally the dots. Then you are ready to have a conversation.

The power here is that you now have a list of topics everyone at the table is interested in and is motivated to discuss for real.

WHAT IF I WANT TO START A LEAN COFFEE?

Do it! It really is this simple.

WHAT IF I HAVE ALREADY STARTED ONE?

If you have started a Lean Coffee and would like, we would be happy to set you up with a subdomain on leancoffee.org like this -> seattle.leancoffee.org. We will be working in the future to come up with an interactive map that will show all the Lean Coffees on earth and let you either find one near you, or find one where you are traveling. We just need to know where you are.

HOW DO I RUN LEAN COFFEE WITH A DISTRIBUTED TEAM?

Well, you'll almost certainly need a tool. You can use an online whiteboard, but you'll find it easier to use a tool built specifically for Lean Coffee. Here are a few that we know of:

Retrium - This is a set of facilitation techniques designed for agile retrospectives. One of the templates they have is Lean Coffee, and it is incredibly easy to use. Can be used for more than just retrospectives. Best for companies/enterprises. Free to try, then requires a paid subscription. www.retrium.com

Lean Coffee Table - This is a simple website built just for distributed Lean Coffee. Free to use. Best for meetups/casual use. www.leancoffeetable.com

Full disclosure: we have no financial relationship with any of the tools listed above. However, we do know the folks at Retrium and have given them feedback on their Lean Coffee implementation.

Lean Coffee(tm) is a trademark of Modus Cooperandi. We wanted to protect the name, so
other's didn't mess with it.

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WHAT IS LEAN COFFEE(tm)? Lean Coffee is a structured, but agenda-less meeting. Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking. Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated. There are currently dozens of Lean Coffees happening world-wide, including Seattle, San Francisco, Stockholm, Toronto, Boulder, New York City, and more.

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Jane Elliott experiment with blue eyes/brown eyes discussion; work group camp with teaming behavior to find a solution together.

Joining the groups and creating a shared goal helps them to work beyond

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The Robbers Cave experiment Muzafer Sherif social psychology

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Muzafer Sherif and others' Robbers Cave experiment into intergroup conflict and co-operation psychology realistic conflict theory differentiation

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What motivates?

When cognitive skills are evaluated, rewards have the opposite effect.

Pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table

Autonomy

Mastery

Sense of purpose

Atlassian model - give people one day to work on whatever they want to do, but they have to show it to the company in a group forum afterward.

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RSA ANIMATE: Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

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This would be a great retreat activity for faculty -- some social, some awareness, some movement. Also suggested going to mass at one of the big Detroit churches first, then do the scavenger hunt.