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We will begin with an animated video showing empathy and resilience to discuss what we notice and wonder. The following days we will read the story: Everyone Can Learn to Ride A Bike, using guided inquiry during the read aloud. Each class will create a poster for being Resilient, discussing what it looks like and what symbols can help us remember to be resilient. The following day, students will role play scenarios led by teachers and how to "bounce back", reviewing strategies we can use to overcome difficulty.

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Students highlight the stances on the morning news announcements. I post informational daily slides on the stances. When I notice students exemplifying the stances, I compliment them. I will be purchasing books for children that celebrate the constellation of stances. Students and staff will able to check these out from the Media Center.

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We will create a board using drawings or real pictures of the kids representing the 5 stances.

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The children will watch Finding Nemo. Then the next day we will have a morning meeting where we will explicitly teach a different stance and replay the scene from the movie. Once we have discussed how the scene shows that stance the students will then do a little project to model the stance.

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In morning meeting, we will show a Kid President video about being optimistic.  We will discuss with our students that they CAN do anything, if they put their mind to it.  After our mini lessons, before the students go off for independent work time, we will remind them to practice being optimistic.

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Fifth grade students will complete a decision making matrix. On it they will determine, by ranking, the seven categories of pioneers of the 20th century They studied and how they rank in the five stances of growth mindset.

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While reading our small group books, anytime there are instances where a character is being disrespectful, hurtful, or rude towards other characters, we will stop and have discussions about showing empathy towards the character receiving the negative behavior.

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In morning meeting, we will focus on the Flexibility Stance. We will read the book "Bunny Cakes" and define flexibility.
In reading, we will tell the students they will read with a different partner today. We will pair them with another student. The teacher will ask the students how that made them feel? What would happen if we never got to read or talk with another partner?
Activity: Give the students a large piece of saran wrap to tightly hold. Place large weights on the saran wrap and have them notice how the saran wrap does not break, but is flexible like their brain. Then, have them do the same with tissue paper and show how it is not flexible.
Number Talks: Teacher says- "There is only one way to make 10." Have the students challenge you. What would happen if we only accepted one right answer?

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Using the flexible time during IOWA testing we will teach students how to recognize empathy and show empathy through different media and direct instruction. First lesson will include the video: Amazing Kids of Character: Empathy. Students will then come up with their own example of when they can show empathy, put the example on a sticky note and post for sharing.

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Kindergarten:
Use Unit 3 Big Book-Shows Persistence throughout text. Using teacher think aloud and student turn-and-talk, the students will make self-to-text connections with where the students have seen persistence in their own lives. Teachers will model writing about the connections with the poster-sized organizer, and then the students will apply this to their own personal organizer.

Other Grade Levels:

Through small group strategy lessons, the teachers will tie persistence and flexibility to the reading strategy cards/lessons and to being a successful reader.

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With our Unit 3 workshops in RELA, we will focus on goal setting and tally charts. These charts are for the students to measure their success and over their self chosen stance that they feel they need work on the most. Then carry over these charts into our small groups and conferences to further work on our reflection skills and their growth mindsets.

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Within writing workshop we will focus on persistence. We will do this through our writing conferences, looking at "How can we use persistence in revising our drafts to a publish piece?" and creating individual goals on the ways we will show persistence in our writing.

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PE- Students will work on flexibility during team game playing. They will discover that they will have to work together in order to make the game successful. Usually, they only work on improving their individual skills.
Music- 2-5 Students are beginning to play the instruments. They must learn how to be flexible when they don’t get assigned the instrument part they may have preferred.
STEM- 2nd grade is making a toy using the engineering design process. They are now to the “improve” stage which will help develop their flexibility.
Art- Students will learn how to deconstruct their art into simple shapes using different stationary objects. This will help them learn both perseverance and flexibility.

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