CAPTURING KIDS HEARTS

Kathryn Howard + Timothy Leake


If you have a childs
heartyou have his
head
-Flip Flippen, Founder
THE EXCEL MODEL
Engage: meet, great, + grab their heart part
Xplore: exploring your students needs
Communicate: caring + relevant
Empower: your teaching becomes their doing
Launch: a meaningful ending
ENGAGE
Handshake, Welcome, Arm, Model
starts at the door
positive greeting, arm, welcome, full attention
modeling social and professional skills
involved with us in the learning process
XPLORE
Customers Needs, Listening Skills, Safe Environment
get in touch where students are personally, emotionally, and
and academically
can take place only in a secure environment
start class with Good Things
COMMUNICATE
Content, Dialogue, Flexibility, Real World
teacher is a facilitator and team-builder
assist them in their future
listening with more than our ears!
S square up
O open posture
L lean in
E eye contact (soft eyes)
R respond (open-ended questions, restate, or clarify)
EMPOWER
Use and Do, Develop Skills, Becoming, Encouragement
build an atmosphere of trust where students feel free to fail
If you do not empower people, then you enable them, make
them lazy, and stifle their confidence.
SOCIAL CONTRACT: AN AGREEMENT OF BEHAVIOR
Goal a self-managing group
1. How do you want to be treated by me?
2. How do you want to be treated by each other?
3. How do you think I want to be treated by you?
4. How do you want to treat each other when there is conflict?
TOOLS TO USE
1. Fouls a signal for put-downs
If it is called, it counts.
not a toy
Someone can call a foul for someone else.
no explanation needed
2. Checks a signal the group uses for each other
3. Transitions a signal the leader uses with the group
LAUNCH
End and Send, Summary, Commitment to Action, Passion
quotes, poems, stories from our own experiences to drive
home the points we want our students to remember
HOW IS THE EXCEL MODEL BEING DEMONSTRATED HERE?

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HOW TO DEAL WITH MISBEHAVIOR?
1. What are you doing?
2. What are you supposed to be doing?
3. Are you doing it?
4. What are you going to do about it?
Repeat Offender What is going to happen if you break our contract
again?
HOW TO DEAL WITH DISRESPECT?
1. How are you talking to me (name)?
2. How are you supposed to talk to me (name)?
3. Were you doing it?
4. What are you going to do about it?
Repeat Offender What is going to happen if you talk to me (name)
like this again?
BEHAVE IN, BEHAVE OUT GUIDELINES
1. No lecturing before, during, or after questions
2. Dont move on until you get an appropriate answer
3. Dont fall for smoke screens
4. Dont bail them out
5. Dont approach student when buttons are pushed
6. Watch body language and tone of voice
7. Questions are not a secret. You may post them on the wall.
MAKING THE QUESTIONS WORK FOR YOU
1. Initially ask the question only two times
2. Create silence
3. Give genuine affirmations about the person, not the behavior
4. You may either answer the question or you are choosing the
consequence
5. Ask your question again
6. Appropriate answer affirm and move to next question,
Inappropriate answer give consequence
QUESTIONS?