🦈 AGW 2021-2022 PD Page

Hello Shark Nation! I am so delighted to be with you all this year via some remote PD content and conversations. It really is a delight to be back with you all.

Now: if you're newer to the Shark Nation, we may not have met yet. Back in October 2018, I visited your great school and we spent a day together exploring These 6 Things: How to Focus Your Teaching on What Matters Most. Since then we've had a few fun run-ins — a remote office hours here, a book club there — but nothing formal. Now that changes! This year we get to spend some time together deepening our understanding of the fundamentals of student motivation.

The goal of our time together this school year:

Understand and act on issues of student motivation that we see in our classes, teams, and school;
continue to grow a school culture built on relationship, relevance, and rigor, so that when we say all students at AGW receive a world-class education, all means all! 🥳

The syllabus

Intro: On the teaching of souls, the five key beliefs, and the workload-pressure cycle

Dig Deeper:

Series Intro, Part I: On the Teaching of Souls
Series Intro, Part II: The Path to the Head is the Heart
Series Intro, Part III: Five Critical Qualities about the Five Key Beliefs, in Order of Actionability
Credibility Guide: Three Simple, Robust Strategies for Building the Credibility Belief
Value Guide: Three Simple, Robust Strategies for Building the Value Belief
Effort Guide: Three Simple, Robust Methods for Establishing Effort in the First Weeks of School
Efficacy Guide: Three Simple, Robust Strategies for Building the Efficacy Belief (coming soon)
Belonging Guide: Three Simple, Robust Strategies for Building the Belonging Belief (coming soon)

Student Motivation, Part 1: Credibility

Dig Deeper:

Credibility page
Things to try from the video:
- Starting the 2×10 process. (Looking for some question ideas, check out this resource).
- Sharing your passion by telling your students what made you become a teacher and what it is about your job that you love doing. Try sharing a favorite teaching story each day this week.
- Looking again at (or giving) a class-interest survey and following up on a student's interest listed there.
- Checking in with your team to see who's having success forming relationships with the students you haven't marked. Find out what's already working, and do that in your own style.