sharethejoy

= = Share the Joy

We know that student enjoyment of school leads to better student learning. Through conversation and sharing of experiences, environments and communities of learning we will uncover the strategies and dispositions of teaching and learning that make school enjoyable and meaningful for all. Attitudes, mindsets, dispositions, strategies used for creating experiences, environments and communities for enjoyable learning will be shared and captured.
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What kills joy in school?
|| bring to school from their life outside the school. The reality of life impedes the students ability to learn. The assumption or lack of awareness by administrators of this reality. || Funding cuts or reappropriation of funds to other areas. The result is that technology gets distributed inequitably. The decisions makers are too far removed from the reality of the environment that their decisions do not support learning in the classroom. || without answering the question "Why" and big rollouts are made without talking to shareholders in the process. Top down dissemination of technology (hardware and software) without appropriate PD, funding, planning. || A physical environment that supports the natural learning process. Space consideration that provides a place that isn't sterile. || connection that is critical to the learning process and moves toward an "output" model that eschews the relationship reality of the social nature of learning. Especially the fact that this move seems to be infecting all levels of the K - 20 process. || When there is a disconnect in communication. When administration tells you to "know your kids" and what they mean is, know their test scores, know if they are behind in classes, know if they are a trouble maker. . . as opposed to knowing **them** personally. ||
 * Home environments, the baggage that kids
 * When technology decisions are made
 * When the model removes that relationship

my friends." "I can't recall any one teacher that I sought out to learn more from." || Memories related to affective/relational aspects of the school experience. || things we were doing a a student. They found out what we were doing outside of school and those things would be the basis of what we learned in the classroom - they used our interests to design the learning opportunities in the classroom. || The way the teacher made you feel. When the teacher found out your interests and took personal interest in you as a person. || It showed an interest by the school at large for me as a person and student. (SLA student)
 * = =What did you, as a student, enjoy about school/learning?= ||
 * "I went to school because I got to be with
 * Teachers that listened to and observed the
 * When a teacher knew me before I knew him.

When a teacher reached out to me to help my nephew, who was in her class, made me realize that we were a community. (SLA student) || I had a teacher I liked because he "cursed in class". . . He saw what we were interested in and what we were reading outside of class and differentiated the work so that it matched our interest. He took the time to make it personal. ||

=in school enjoyable?= || to do what they want on occasion." || Putting our bias aside in favor of the students opportunity to learn. Deferring a students learning proclivities. || to bother to find out where the teachers are, where they are coming from, what their interest/needs are? Or do we just process them through and check it off the list? || Reflecting on the feedback you get from students, especially when they come back and share a moment that made a difference in their lives. "Kids remember moments, not days." - @courosa Using these experience to frame and inform what we are currently doing. || an environment where that happens. "I don't feel positive about the day, if when it ends I realize I haven't created something." || teaching. If you aren't passionate about the act of learning get out of the profession. "It's not about me. It's about the students." - always remind yourself of that reality. || Finding original/uncommon ways to facilitate the act of learning for students. "Find a way." ||
 * = =What did you do to make your job or the students expeience=
 * "I was able to suck it up and allow the student
 * Question: In teacher PD, do we take the time
 * Being thoughtful/purposeful about our practice. || Being focused on the act of creation and creating
 * Be intentional about a love for the art of

="jaw dropping."= || to the human need for a real personal connection. Students choose to be part of the act, they are empowered to be responsible choice makers. || There are things in the room for the students to just play with. Zach sometimes gives a AD/HD student a stick of gum. The focus is on providing the most comfortable space for learning to happen, to make the space enjoyable for the students. ||
 * = =Realities of Mr. Chase and Ms. Laufenberg classrooms that are=
 * When you go to class you get a hug. Attention

chance to read aloud. Creating a real reading space and experience. || Anything hands on. || collaborate and share and be public with their learning and their ideas. Speaking outloud gives you a chance to assess your own thoughts. (SLA student) || Giving kids a chance to share their creation. || spiritual nature of their humanness. Helping them find peace with who they are. || effects the act of learning. || Show them the real thing as opposed to the abstract. || =Share the Joy= Have a story or experience that you want to share? We need to share more of the joy and less of the frustrations, lest we pass that on to our children. Write about the joy, write about what works, write about what you do to spread the joy. Encourage the people around you to talk about the good things, take control of the faculty room discussions and frame them, guide them to the positive, the good that is happening, what is being created.
 * = =What have we eliminated that we want to bring back?= ||
 * Reading aloud as a teacher. Letting kids have the a
 * When they get a chance to work together, to
 * Letting kids organically create. || Paying attention to the entire kid . . . even the
 * Paying attention to the physical space and how it

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