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Sample objective and role of PLL: Guide learners in recognizing and sharing their personal passions and practices to maintain work-life balance thus creating connection with each other and bringing positive energy to the learning/working environment.

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We all have to work. You work to earn money so you can survive in the world. Your job can be boring and tedious at times. Wouldn't it be nice to be passionate about your work and career? Here are seven ways to bring passion to your work.

1. Take risks

You might be working where you feel comfortable, but you are not passionate about your job. Choose to take a risk and find out what you are passionate about. You may end up switching jobs or careers, but you will fuel your passion and that will lead to more productivity and happiness.

2. Hold yourself accountable

Make sure you follow your passion. It is easy to give up and stay where you are, but you will not be happy. Apply for new positions and be ready to be turned down. Someone will see the passion inside of you and will hire you.

3. Happiness is contagious

When you are truly passionate about what you are doing you will become happier. Happiness will spread from you to other people you work with. Everyone will feel lighter and fresher. You will want to be at work and so will your fellow employees. Find your passion and spread your happiness around.

4. Figure out your priorities

Once you know what your priorities are, you can look for a job that will fit them. Do you prefer to work alone or in a group? Do you want more vacation time, or do you want to be busy? What makes you happy? The answers to these questions will help you discover your true passion.

5. Bring your passion to work

While you are working, you can take a moment or two out of your day to enjoy yourself. "If you enjoy reading, take a book to work and sit and read during lunch or other breaks. If you enjoy exercising, take a walk during your down time. Find something you enjoy and make it a part of your daily routine. Doing what you love will help make your work day lighter and happier," suggests an expert from FBO Consultant service.

6. Talk to your coworkers

Find out what your coworkers are passionate about. Do they like to play tennis or bowl? Maybe you could organize a bowling league with your coworkers. Or, if they like art, arrange a trip to a local art museum. Go out as a group and get to know one another. You will get to know each other better and find out things you have in common.

7. Stay positive

No matter what happens, stay positive. The more positive your attitude, the better you will feel. You decide if you are passionate and happy, not your job. Make the most of what you have right now, and strive to better yourself and your work. Your work will improve with positivity and you may be looking at a new job you love in the near future. Do not talk yourself out of your happiness. Put some fresh flowers on your desk, or hang a painting you like. Bring a spark of happiness into your office to help you stay positive and on track.

Your job can be rewarding and happy if you keep up a positive attitude and get to know your coworkers. If you strive for a better position that you will enjoy, keep moving towards that goal. Keep your goals attainable and make sure you do something every day to get closer to your dream job. Motivate yourself by freshening up your office and put a smile on your face. The happier you are, the more positive your future will be.

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7 Ways to Bring Passion to your Work - Thrive Global

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We all have to work. You work to earn money so you can survive in the world. Your job can be boring and tedious at times. Wouldn't it be nice to be passionate about your work and career? Here are seven ways to bring passion to your work.

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Goal:  Increase confidence, connection, and trust to create safe environment for sharing, exploring, and tackling challenges (aka learning) collaboratively.

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Activities: Put teachers in the shoes of the students and...

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Teachers have long known that feeling safe and secure in school helps students focus their energy on learning. And the research bears that out: A 2018 study found that when teachers deliberately foster a sense of belonging by greeting each student at the door of the class, they see "significant improvements in academic engaged time and reductions in disruptive behavior."

Edutopia covered that study last year, and we've shared many other ideas from teachers for ensuring that every student in the classroom feels like they belong.

Some of the activities below take less than five minutes. They're divided up among the grades, but many can apply across all of the years from kindergarten to 12th grade.

Elementary School

Shout-Outs: This is a quick way for students to celebrate each other for doing a job well or for attempting something difficult. Shout-outs can be incorporated at any point in a class. First-grade teacher Valerie Gallagher of Providence, Rhode Island, rings a chime when she wants to get the class's attention to ask who has a shout-out.

"It's not just me as the teacher saying, 'You're doing well'-it's a way for them to interact with each other and celebrate positivity," says Gallagher.

Friendly Fridays: Elizabeth Peterson, a fourth-grade teacher in Amesbury, Massachusetts, uses Friendly Fridays as a simple way for students to lift each other and themselves up. Peterson has her students write a friendly, anonymous note to a classmate, practice using positive self-talk, or use storytelling to give a peer a pep talk.

Sharing Acts of Kindness: Fifth-grade teacher Marissa King, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, shares two activities that encourage kindness. In the first, the teacher gives students secret kindness instructions, such as writing an anonymous note to a peer who is struggling in one of their classes.

The second activity revolves around noticing others' acts of kindness: When a student sees a peer tidying up in the classroom, for example, they can post a thank you note on a shared digital "kindness wall." Both activities coach students to be kind to their peers in the hope that they'll begin to practice kindness unprompted.

Middle School

Paper Tweets: To build community in her seventh-grade classroom, Jill Fletcher of Kapolei Middle School in Kapolei, Hawaii, created a bulletin board modeled on Twitter. Students use a template to create a profile, and they enlist at least three followers-a friend, an acquaintance, and someone they don't interact with much.
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When the class does this activity-which takes about 45 minutes to set up the first time-Fletcher has them respond to prompts about their current mood or new things happening in their lives, and then their followers respond.

Class Norms: Bobby Shaddox, a seventh-grade social studies teacher at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, has his students develop a set of norms for themselves-adjectives that describe them as a community of learners. Having students come up with their own norms creates "a pathway toward belonging for every single student in that class," says Dr. Pamela Cantor, founder of Turnaround for Children.

"Instead of a top-down list of rules that a teacher gives a class, these are words that we generated together," says Shaddox. "It helps us own the behavior in the classroom."

Group Salutes: A moment shared between two or more students at the beginning or end of an activity, a Group Salute is a teacher-prompted interaction that is a quick, low-prep way to cultivate community. The shared gesture can be physical-like a high five-or social-a teacher could ask students to express gratitude to their group members.

There's some interesting data supporting this idea: Researchers found that NBA teams whose players touch the most early in the season-high fives, fist bumps, etc.-had the best records later for the season.

High School

Morning Meetings: Morning meetings have long been a staple of elementary classrooms, but they can help students in all grades transition into class. Riverside School, a pre-K to 12th-grade school in Ahmedabad, India, uses a version of morning meetings at every grade level as "a pure relationship-building time." Bonding exercises led by teachers or students include physical or social and emotional activities, or discussions of sensitive topics like bullying.

Appreciation, Apology, Aha: As a quick, daily closing activity, students gather in a circle and share an appreciation of one of their peers, an apology, or a light bulb moment. The teacher models the activity by sharing and then asks for volunteers to speak.

"Those types of appreciations and community recognitions can go a long way toward building bonds," explains Aukeem Ballard, an educator with Summit Public Schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.

"A low-stakes thorn might be 'I feel tired.' Yet many students choose to share more personal items, like 'My thorn is that my dog is sick and I'm really worried about her,'" writes Alex Shevrin Venet, a former school leader at a trauma-informed high school.

Snowball Toss: Students anonymously write down one of their stressors on a piece of paper, crumple it up, gather in a circle, and throw their paper balls in a mock snowball fight. When that's done, they pick up a snowball and read it aloud.

"The idea is that we're moving around. We're able to have fun, laugh, scream, be loud, and then have that discussion about stress," says Marcus Moore, an advisory leader at Urban Prep School in Chicago.

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These community-building ideas for the classroom can help teachers ensure that students in every grade feel like they belong.

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Purpose: To create an environment in which every learner feels a sense of belonging and significance because... when we feel good, we do good.

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Activities: I like to start with a video to help lighten the mood and loosen everybody up.

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Objectives:
Building trust and relationships
Shared sense of purpose
Opportunities to learn from each other

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Activities: I like to start with a video to help lighten the mood and loosen everybody up.

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Goals: to build and facilitate a structure that perpetuates interconnected relationships within a professional learning environment.

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Purpose: To create a culture that supports participants in a shared focus on teaching and learning.