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High School: 9-12
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Starting strong: Build relationships, build character
Students work together, teach & learn from each other. Understand and respect different perspectives. Grow together.
Core Values Build Character
Help students intentionally evaluate and build character through demonstrating and developing, with peer support, core values and traits
Student Run Cafeteria
Character is built when student take ownership of their space and services. This can occur if they run the cafeteria.
Creative coding--- Making Algorithm easy for everyone
The concept of algorithm is embedded in all we see, hear, say and feel. Students use simple programming software to understand algorithm.
Introductions:
Change the first day of class to foster active listening, empathy, relationship building and self awareness.
What is Character?
Give students an opportunity to define and defend their understanding.
2 Minute Get To Know Me
Get to know your students in a deep and authentic way in just 2 minutes
Lumosity For Character
Can you gameify character building? What if building character was reframed through community game?
Student Run EdCamp
Student-run EdCamp could build character schoolwide
Peaceful Pause or Mindful Moments
Take a break any time, any day!
Masks We Live In
A lesson on shame, expectations, and common humanity based off d.school Fellow Ashanti Branch's work at the Ever Forward club
Mixed age classroom
Social interactions across a wide age range will bring diverse perspectives and experiences into the classroom environment.
Elevator Pitch for Character
Imagine students creating an elevator pitch that describes what they would do in difficult situation.
Char-Act-er: cultivating character
A vertically aligned set of experiences that puts students into experiences that allows them to practice and cultivate character
Making things together
Character is built when everyone makes things
KHARACTER KAHOOT
Using the Kahoot app as a way to engage in discourse on Character Building.
Desegregation
Have students to interact with each other from different socioeconomics and demographics in order to foster curiosity + social intelligence
No Grades | GPA | Report Cards
Results in curiosity and learning instead of regurgitation and test results.
Team Yellow
Brainstorm @ IDEO
Interview for values
Having students interview staff, members of community, and peers highlights and encourages empathy, vulnerability, honesty.
Discuss what it means to be a person of character
Students will use sources (many created by teacher), articles, news clips to discuss a year long class on character building.
