-Habits+of+Mind

 explore how Habits of Mind can be infused into the St. John’s learning community to support a culture of mindful learning. Resources will include the faculty survey and //__Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind__// || **Group members:** Mayonne Holt Patty Booth Rebecca Crabtree Debbie Corona Dolly Holt Sheri Bordelon - Recorder LeAnne Wyatt - Facilitator || · Articulate the mission and essential questions related to your topic and post on your wiki page. · Determine the scope of research and responsibility of each member of the group. · Create an estimated timeline for your project. · Report your progress after each meeting on the wiki page.
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Suggested Model for proceeding:  1. State the Mission of your Focus Group  2. Develop Essential Questions to guide your research  3. Collect, organize and validate data about your topic. This may take many forms such as notes from other schools, student responses, testing, implementation and application of ideas.  4. Analyze information collected.  5. Reflect on findings and the relationship to the mission of your focus group.  6. Present findings to the full faculty. This may take the form of a proposal or a sharing. //Support and resources are available as requested.// || **Essential Questions:** How does one affect the culture of a school? What kind of culture do we as educators want for our students? How can the implementation of the Habits of Mind be both manageable and palatable? How can we provide ways to integrate Habits of Mind into the curriculum we already teach? How effective has the integration of Habits of Mind been in other schools? How will we determine if the program is successful? || January 6, 2010 Notes:
 * **__Oct. 7th Notes__: **
 * **Looked at results of faculty surveys and dicussed what our approach should be based on those results.**
 * **Decided how to make the implementation of HOM as painless as possible if we want facult to buy in. One idea was to assign one or two habits to each grade level.**
 * **Discussed and came up with our essential questions**
 * **Determined that each of us would research and try to find out what shools were saying that us HOM**
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**We would come to the next meeting prepared to discuss which habits would be appropriate for each grade level.** ||
 * ** __December 2 Notes__: **
 * **Determined that our recommenedation to the faculty will be to implement a pilot HOM program for a year and try out two of the habits (persisting and managing impulsivity) school wide.**
 * **We wil use all modes of school-wide communication to introduce, educate and implement the program including CrusaderLive, chapel, and the weekly newsletter**
 * **We will continue to research and look at ways to integrate the two habits we have chosen into current curriculum for all age groups.**
 * **Began to plan ways to include entire school in the process - do features on CrusaderLive, print up posters for classrooms, give awards to and acknowledge those students who use the habits in an exemplary way.**
 * Further discussed how we would present our ideas to full faculty and decided to present it in the same manner that we would want to present it to students, via Crusader Live.
 * Began to map out the who, what, when where and how to implement. Our biggest discussion point was the "what" because we know that that is the question that most teachers will have - What do I have to do?
 * We decided on several required tasks - they would put up posters in classrooms and that all faculty up through administration should consistently use the terminology. From there, we have been unsure what we should require of teachers in order to successfully implement the program.
 * We left the meeting with the task of thinkng about possilbe ways that each grade level could use the two habits we have chosen and specifically what we would ask teachers to do individually to implement. ||
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