Chapter 6: Just Like a Family

How can schools cultivate safe nurturing spaces for everyone involved in the child’s life?

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• "Everyone can be both a teacher and a learner."  Chapter 6 of #YearatMH shows it.
• "It feels like a family." A recurring theme of schools powerfully engaging young people, families, and teachers. #YearatMH
• Tcher in #YearatMH asks students, "Is there a difference between smart and wise?" It's a good question for ed policy makers as well.

Complementary Resources for Chapter 6

WATCH

• Flipping the Script: Changing our educational paradigms
• The Power of Outrospection
• Get to know your students
• Small Schools ... Big Reforms?
• Ed Stockham, Empathy Explorer: Monster On My Shoulder (Ashoka's Start Empathy Initiative)
• How to Build a Cooperative-Learning Environment (Edutopia)
• How Responsive Classroom Techniques Get Students Ready for Learning (Edutopia)
• Positive Discipline Strategies Yield Quick Results (Edutopia)

READ

• This Revolution is Not Being Televised
• Pass It On: Interviews by Youth with Mentors That Matter
• Becoming Inquirers and Agents of Change (pairs with Flipping the Script video)
• Live In Respectful Harmony with Others (Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center)
• Democratic Education In Practice: Inside the Mission Hill School (University of Evansville)
• Schools, Families, and Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
• Raising Caring, Confident, Capable Children (CASEL)
• How Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Techniques Build Academic Achievement (Edutopia)
• The Challenge of Creating Community: First Steps (Edutopia)
• What's the Secret to Effective Classroom Management? (Edutopia)
• A Year at Mission Hill: Like a Family (Ashoka's Start Empathy Initiative)

LISTEN

• Emily Gasoi: A Quiet Victory for the Pack
• Large Schools Going Small

DO

• Take an online course: A Better World, A Meaningful Life (Institute for Humane Education)
• Meet Teacher Harriet! (Ashoka's Start Empathy Initiative)
• The Kindezi School Makes Peace (Ashoka's Start Empathy Initiative)
• Resources and Downloads for Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Classroom Management (Edutopia)