1 00:00:09,740 --> 00:00:31,340 Just joining us, please add your new pages of your children or students you work with, and one thing that is bringing you joy. Feel free to react to others in the chat. And this is going to be an interactive book club, so be ready to engage in some conversation. Maybe you want to have your book on hand next to you or your study guide. Thank you again for being here with us. Yay. 2 00:00:37,130 --> 00:00:42,750 A lot of nine and six year old, 11 year old, moderate class, that sounds wonderful. 3 00:00:42,750 --> 00:00:50,350 a lot of quality time with family brings special joy, flower arrangements, beautiful, wonderful 4 00:00:50,350 --> 00:00:50,710 stuff. 5 00:00:50,930 --> 00:00:53,910 Do you make those flower arrangements if so, I'd love to learn. 6 00:00:55,310 --> 00:01:00,790 26 and 23 baking, so being creative brings you joy, a lot of creativity in this community. 7 00:01:02,490 --> 00:01:03,530 Join working out. 8 00:01:03,910 --> 00:01:04,190 Awesome. 9 00:01:04,370 --> 00:01:04,610 Okay. 10 00:01:04,810 --> 00:01:05,010 Yes. 11 00:01:05,110 --> 00:01:05,770 And morning walks. 12 00:01:06,330 --> 00:01:06,990 That's an exercise. 13 00:01:07,790 --> 00:01:08,670 Thank you, Dan. 14 00:01:10,090 --> 00:01:12,050 I think with that, I mean, seven minutes after. 15 00:01:12,050 --> 00:01:14,030 I think we should get started. What do you think, Dan? 16 00:01:15,250 --> 00:01:15,810 Let's get going. 17 00:01:16,310 --> 00:01:17,290 Right. Let's get going. 18 00:01:17,630 --> 00:01:17,970 Thanks, Kim. 19 00:01:18,410 --> 00:01:22,250 Yeah. And thank you all for taking the time to introduce yourselves in the chat. 20 00:01:22,870 --> 00:01:25,730 This is the first of our four book club series. 21 00:01:25,730 --> 00:01:30,790 And so we're going to continue to get to know one another throughout our times together. 22 00:01:31,090 --> 00:01:32,510 This, you know, fall and winter. 23 00:01:33,270 --> 00:01:36,070 And as you all know, we are meeting right now at this time. 24 00:01:36,070 --> 00:01:38,650 And we'll be together till about 745. 25 00:01:39,270 --> 00:01:48,490 And once again, I had mentioned that we will be engaging in lots of, you know, dialogue and breakout groups together. So just be prepared. 26 00:01:49,070 --> 00:01:52,870 If you have any issues, I have my site take here right now. 27 00:01:53,190 --> 00:01:55,830 Superintendent Dan Duguar is in our space here. 28 00:01:56,430 --> 00:01:59,890 But also you can email me at cakeoffwell at johnsaccess.org. 29 00:02:00,090 --> 00:02:01,310 I'll have my email up on the side. 30 00:02:01,750 --> 00:02:02,610 But also, 31 00:02:02,610 --> 00:02:06,550 you know, ping us in the chat or other ways to get connected to make sure that you have 32 00:02:06,550 --> 00:02:11,770 what you need for our time together today, including your book and snacks and water. Okay? 33 00:02:12,490 --> 00:02:17,090 Kim, if I can just add really quick, I know maybe some of you have friends that are pinging 34 00:02:17,090 --> 00:02:21,470 you right now saying, oh, I forgot to sign up. Where, where is the log in? Just so you 35 00:02:21,470 --> 00:02:28,010 know, the log in for tonight is on our district website. It's on the calendar. All they have 36 00:02:28,010 --> 00:02:34,870 do is click on the calendar event and the log in details are there and the more them area. 37 00:02:36,210 --> 00:02:41,030 Thanks and I know some of our friends aren't able to join today so as you all know these will 38 00:02:41,030 --> 00:02:46,510 be recorded and we will share them afterwards I'll share them in a follow up email but also they 39 00:02:46,510 --> 00:02:53,530 will be on your events website for your district and also you know feel free to like continue the 40 00:02:53,530 --> 00:03:00,730 conversation with your colleagues offline. And yeah, thanks again for being here. And as I, 41 00:03:00,950 --> 00:03:06,310 you know, think about our times together today, you know, as I mentioned, we're going to get into 42 00:03:06,310 --> 00:03:10,810 a little bit of overview of, you know, who's challenged us, but also a little bit more around, 43 00:03:11,130 --> 00:03:16,390 you know, what are the ways in which you see engagement or disengagement happening at your schools 44 00:03:16,390 --> 00:03:22,050 or with your own children or maybe your own experiences. I'm going to share a little bit of the data 45 00:03:22,050 --> 00:03:27,510 that we have collected over past 20 years around engagement and then get us 46 00:03:27,510 --> 00:03:31,750 some time and break out groups to discuss some of the things that we're seeing 47 00:03:31,750 --> 00:03:36,570 and hearing and feeling in the book. And as we think about our times together 48 00:03:36,570 --> 00:03:41,830 today a little bit over an hour as of right now I just once again want to you 49 00:03:41,830 --> 00:03:47,170 know re-ground and reiterate that this is a gift that we all have together at 50 00:03:47,170 --> 00:03:51,570 this time. I know that there's just so much going on in the world right now and 51 00:03:51,570 --> 00:03:56,390 in today, particularly in our nation, and so I want to just encourage you all to continue 52 00:03:56,390 --> 00:04:02,210 to take care of yourself, take care of each other. If you need to step out, please do, please 53 00:04:02,210 --> 00:04:06,850 do what you need for yourself. I know you, some of you might be doing dinner right now or maybe 54 00:04:06,850 --> 00:04:10,950 just finished dinner, so just want to continue to reiterate your wellness is important. 55 00:04:12,290 --> 00:04:17,910 And so we will take no offense if you need to step out or enable to be in any of the breakout room sessions. 56 00:04:19,470 --> 00:04:24,910 All right, so with that, we're going to get going ahead if you have any questions once 57 00:04:24,910 --> 00:04:27,930 again for those in the chat and we'll continue to engage with you. 58 00:04:28,710 --> 00:04:34,870 If you've heard a little bit of the podcast at snippets from my conversation with Dan 59 00:04:35,450 --> 00:04:40,390 and also our co-founder of Challenge Success, Dr. Denise Pope, you may have heard a little 60 00:04:40,390 --> 00:04:45,790 bit of me, my introduction, and so if you did it, that's okay, I am the Director of Programs 61 00:04:45,790 --> 00:04:51,610 at Challenge Success and we are partnering with Belmont Red Ridge Shores District and with great 62 00:04:51,610 --> 00:04:59,010 support from your PTA to host these four club sessions. I'm a former, I'm currently an educator but 63 00:04:59,010 --> 00:05:05,170 former classroom educator and you should see I have two daughters of my own. They're an elementary 64 00:05:05,170 --> 00:05:09,950 school right now and so I'm just really honored to be here with you and I loved reading the book and 65 00:05:09,950 --> 00:05:15,290 so I'm excited to have a community to dig into that with me. Dan is anything else that you'd like to 66 00:05:15,290 --> 00:05:20,810 share before I move this for sure I'll just share I'm really excited as I as I 67 00:05:20,810 --> 00:05:27,750 put the chat I'm a father of two boys 13 and 16 and we actually use the book to 68 00:05:27,750 --> 00:05:32,690 kick off our year with our staff district wide all of our educators games 69 00:05:32,690 --> 00:05:38,590 together and I kind of gave a keynote kind of some highlights for me to kick off 70 00:05:38,590 --> 00:05:44,310 the year all of our staff actually received the book as well and as I was reading it 71 00:05:44,310 --> 00:05:47,610 but I was flip-plopping between district leader 72 00:05:47,610 --> 00:05:49,770 and how does this change what we do in our schools 73 00:05:51,150 --> 00:05:53,650 to I'm a dad and how does this change, 74 00:05:53,790 --> 00:05:55,870 how I interact with my kiddos at home. 75 00:05:56,190 --> 00:05:59,690 So I think you'll really enjoy the conversations 76 00:05:59,690 --> 00:06:02,210 that we all have and just thank you for joining tonight. 77 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,300 So we were so inspired at challenge success 78 00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:09,740 with the conversation, no, particularly myself 79 00:06:09,740 --> 00:06:10,920 in order to hear my excitement. 80 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,220 When I spoke with Dan and Denise about the hopes 81 00:06:14,220 --> 00:06:16,940 for this club and the sort of story, 82 00:06:16,980 --> 00:06:18,880 Dan, that you shared also about your connection 83 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:20,660 as a parent but also as an educator. 84 00:06:21,340 --> 00:06:22,340 And that connects very deeply 85 00:06:22,850 --> 00:06:24,280 with the Challenge Success mission 86 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:26,160 and really elevating student voice 87 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:27,460 to improve well-being, 88 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:29,260 along being an engagement. 89 00:06:30,380 --> 00:06:32,200 And so just thinking about this connection, 90 00:06:32,500 --> 00:06:35,580 I wanna re-emphasize the goals of our time together 91 00:06:35,580 --> 00:06:39,360 in these four sessions are to continue dig into the realities 92 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:41,600 in regards to engagement for students 93 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:43,000 in our current schools. 94 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:49,180 and really explore what it means to fully engage in schools, not just for academics but also for 95 00:06:49,180 --> 00:06:54,820 well-being, also for purpose and growth. And once again, the connection, as Dana mentioned, 96 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:00,180 with your learner profile, really thinking about how we can support our children to think boldly, 97 00:07:00,820 --> 00:07:06,760 innovate fearlessly and advocate for meaningful change. So just want to think about these goals and 98 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:12,980 objectives as we dive into our conversation together and centering these as a core objective for 99 00:07:12,980 --> 00:07:14,880 why we are all meeting together today. 100 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:19,700 As we engage in conversations, 101 00:07:19,780 --> 00:07:23,140 and as I mentioned, even in her framing of our agenda, 102 00:07:23,340 --> 00:07:25,080 there's so much going on in the world, 103 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,040 also in our individual stories. 104 00:07:27,660 --> 00:07:29,420 And so once again, I want to continue 105 00:07:29,420 --> 00:07:31,740 to offer up some agreements that we all 106 00:07:32,300 --> 00:07:34,200 commit to centering our well-being here, 107 00:07:34,620 --> 00:07:36,500 commit to centering our belonging 108 00:07:36,500 --> 00:07:38,540 as a community in our joy, 109 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:41,520 and honoring each other's stories in that process. 110 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:44,900 Okay, so I hope you will welcome these agreements 111 00:07:44,900 --> 00:07:47,840 says you engage in these conversations over the next four series. 112 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:51,060 So let's start with a quick connector. 113 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:57,200 You may have dived into the book if you haven't yet, that's okay, which is curious. 114 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:01,520 What does engagement mean to you in the context of learning? 115 00:08:02,380 --> 00:08:08,460 You might tap on your experiences in the classroom as a learner or maybe if you are currently 116 00:08:08,460 --> 00:08:14,120 teaching, thinking about how you'd like to design, engaging lessons, or maybe what you're 117 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:19,800 seeing as engagement of your own children or child. Take a moment in the chat, you can respond to 118 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:27,240 this prompt, and we'll just take a moment, oops, sorry, to see what others are saying in here. 119 00:08:49,060 --> 00:08:51,600 By music as we're thinking, so that's an instrumental. 120 00:08:56,700 --> 00:09:01,260 See, engagement means caring and learning and 121 00:09:01,260 --> 00:09:08,720 finding joy and excitement in it. Not falling asleep during class, yes, that was good Lisa. 122 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:31,160 an interest in what you're learning. Feeling excited about a topic, a hobby. These are beautiful. If there are ones that you want to, you know, react to, feel free to use the, you know, emoji reaction you can in chat and feel free to engage with one another in that way, we will get into break up groups a little bit later. See if you can engage in some dialogue that way. 123 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:38,620 personal connections to learning, critical thinking, desire to learn something new, 124 00:09:40,420 --> 00:09:44,540 walking away with more questions and motivation. These are all really beautiful. 125 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:49,440 They see some parts and affirmations from others in this space. 126 00:09:50,820 --> 00:09:56,380 I love these ideas of what engagement means to you, and for me it really connects 127 00:09:56,380 --> 00:10:02,760 so the values that I see and hear from things that Belmont River shores is really trying to 128 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:04,620 promote in all of your school spaces. 129 00:10:06,900 --> 00:10:10,400 Participation, interaction, and emotional connection. Great. 130 00:10:11,860 --> 00:10:16,040 Oh, I love it. I love when my girls come home and want to share what they've done at school. 131 00:10:16,380 --> 00:10:20,160 It's just the best feeling. Or when they're like, you picked me up too early. I just want to take 132 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:26,560 have more time and after, apparently, really awesome. That joy is contagious and I see some 133 00:10:26,560 --> 00:10:34,100 smile in this case too, yeah, definitely fulfilling. So keep it coming in the chat. And most people 134 00:10:34,100 --> 00:10:40,420 also think about with this connector and I want to make sure this works here. On the flip side, 135 00:10:40,420 --> 00:10:45,880 what does disengagement mean to you in the context of learning? What are some of the things that 136 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:52,300 maybe you felt as a learner I saw someone say maybe falling asleep at the desk was 137 00:10:52,300 --> 00:10:57,960 disengagement. Maybe what are some things maybe you've heard your own child say 138 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:04,720 about school or as a teacher maybe what is something you've seen in your 139 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:09,960 practice and something you're hoping to improve for students. 140 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:14,300 So maybe students 141 00:11:14,300 --> 00:11:15,260 saying this is useless. 142 00:11:18,930 --> 00:11:25,190 The first couple pages of the intro, yes, school was fine. It's okay. 143 00:11:27,090 --> 00:11:35,750 Papathy, cheating, avoidance, embedded math. I heard that quite a bit when I was in the classroom 144 00:11:35,750 --> 00:11:41,450 that even at elementary age, young people had a perception of who they were as a learner. 145 00:11:42,050 --> 00:11:54,910 I'm bored. I hate school. Oh, breaks. Yes. Even my own youngest daughter had a moment where she just actually quite a face where she did not want to go to school and that was really hard. 146 00:11:56,310 --> 00:12:09,190 Not caring, low confidence. Yeah. So these signs, these examples of disengagement are something that seems like many in the space have seen examples of or felt. 147 00:12:11,150 --> 00:12:19,680 and seeing some connections with what you are saying in here and maybe also what you've connected with in the book so far. 148 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:28,220 So it's important as we're thinking about these connectors as you all have a cat and you might want to work on that, not the dog's cat. 149 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:33,660 Great. So to think about once again you are honoring each other's stories. 150 00:12:33,660 --> 00:12:37,400 these stories are important for us to really think about what we want to 151 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:44,680 shape and what we want to be true for the young people that we get to hang 152 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:46,000 with and serve and be with. 153 00:12:48,260 --> 00:12:51,000 So continue to bring these forth and I think these 154 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,360 will also come through I believe in your breakout groups but holding on to that 155 00:12:55,360 --> 00:13:00,600 I just want to share a little bit of what we've seen at Charlem success. So if 156 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,740 If you're not familiar with our organization, we are, 157 00:13:03,980 --> 00:13:05,400 oh, sorry, I keep doing that with this. 158 00:13:05,620 --> 00:13:08,100 We are an affiliate of the Stanford grad school. 159 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:12,580 And in our work, why is this not working for me, Fred? 160 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:13,020 I'm sorry. 161 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:17,160 In here. 162 00:13:17,620 --> 00:13:17,800 No. 163 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:19,380 Okay, there we go. 164 00:13:19,560 --> 00:13:20,720 It wants me to click direct on here. 165 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:22,940 If y'all are using Canva, this is what's happening. 166 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:27,280 Not my Google sites, but we work directly as an affiliate 167 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:28,560 of the Stanford grad school. 168 00:13:28,560 --> 00:13:33,860 and we survey students for the past 20 years around topics of well-being engagement and belonging, 169 00:13:33,860 --> 00:13:40,540 as I mentioned before, but also homework, sleep, extra curriculars, and we also survey parent and 170 00:13:40,540 --> 00:13:44,940 caregivers to really understand the line with school and home. And so what I want to share with you 171 00:13:44,940 --> 00:13:53,040 is some specific data on our student engagement just from this past year. So I know we do have some 172 00:13:53,780 --> 00:13:59,340 Elementary families here that have children that are, you know, in kindergarten to third grade, 173 00:13:59,740 --> 00:14:04,140 our survey only goes down to fourth grade, so I'm sure you're reading from fourth through 12. 174 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:09,160 And what you'll see in this chart specifically as a spread, you'll see these different colors. 175 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:15,800 And how we categorize engagement is by the categories of disengaged, 176 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:20,780 doing school, purposely engaged, and full engaged. And what you'll see in the book, 177 00:14:20,780 --> 00:14:25,620 and as you get into it, there are very specific ways in which the authors are categorizing engagement. 178 00:14:25,820 --> 00:14:28,940 And we're actually very aligned, though we might be using some different language. 179 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:36,020 When we think about fully engaged students, we're talking about students that see clear purpose 180 00:14:36,020 --> 00:14:41,480 in what they're learning, and they also find joy in what they're learning, which I saw from some 181 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:47,120 of the examples of what you shared in the chat. We also hear students talking about that they 182 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:52,120 understand that this is going to connect to their life beyond school. And so in 183 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:57,860 that darker green color, which is on the furthest right, that is where we see 184 00:14:58,780 --> 00:14:59,900 students fully 185 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:05,820 It engaged and wanting to be a part of school, wanting to go to school and seeing that connection 186 00:15:05,820 --> 00:15:11,000 to what school can do for them, not just in their academics, but also in their wants. 187 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:17,440 When you go down to, of course, disengage, that is, of course, the opposite end of our 188 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:23,520 fully engaged. Doing school, I'd like to prescribe and get into that, is when you're seeing students 189 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:27,760 go through the motions, they were behavioral engaged in school, they're turning assignments, 190 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:39,200 They might actually have A's in class because they're turning assignments. They're getting the job done, but they do not see purpose in what they're doing, meaning they may not see the connection to their life beyond school. 191 00:15:39,780 --> 00:15:47,440 They might not understand how to apply the skills in maybe like a real world, and they might actually not find joy in what they're doing. 192 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:51,920 And so in that way, they are just doing school and going through the motions. 193 00:15:52,940 --> 00:15:55,720 And unfortunately, this is what we see the most. 194 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:59,860 And you can see in the percentages of our high school, secondary schools. 195 00:15:59,860 --> 00:16:04,660 We see the most students, actually in this past year, but over the 20 years, 196 00:16:04,940 --> 00:16:06,340 that are really doing school. 197 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:15,400 We also have seen a lot of cases of schools that are majority fully engaged or 198 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:21,280 schools are really focusing not just on academic engagement but also on well-being and belonging. 199 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:27,400 There's a lot of intersection correlation with how students feel connected to their peers, 200 00:16:28,100 --> 00:16:32,140 which leads to higher levels of engagement or connected to their teachers, 201 00:16:32,700 --> 00:16:38,140 which makes them want to engage more, as well as just well-being. If I'm physically well, 202 00:16:38,140 --> 00:16:46,180 if I'm mostly well, I'm, you know, more capable of coping with stress and then fully engaging 203 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:53,020 in the lesson. So, I just wanted to give you all those snapshot of what we've collected in this 204 00:16:53,020 --> 00:16:58,800 past year, which is, you can see it's over 32,000 students from 4 through 12th grade around their 205 00:16:58,800 --> 00:16:59,940 feelings of engagement. 206 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:06,640 And yes, I see a question that chat on differences in results by gender and 207 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:14,480 section. Yes, there are we do collect a sub-group data around engagement and I don't know quite 208 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:19,720 know them off the top of my head right now, but I know we did a big study and partnered with 209 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:25,140 international coalition of girls schools because we did see girls or those identifying as girls having 210 00:17:25,140 --> 00:17:33,820 the highest level of stress in school and also disengagement. So I move this forward, hope 211 00:17:33,820 --> 00:17:39,240 me a cursor will work. So just going along with our agenda and thank you feel free of more questions 212 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:44,000 coming along your way and once again this is our last session so we're seeing that I can bring in 213 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:49,680 some more data and think about some subgroup data that I can share with you all. So I want to get 214 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:56,680 us time to get into our breakout groups and get into some conversations. If you haven't already seen 215 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:00,420 the book club study guide, I'm going to put the link in the chat. 216 00:18:01,580 --> 00:18:13,440 But this is several pages of a study guide and within it you'll find some offerings of questions for different sessions, as well as a note catcher page if you wanted to use it. 217 00:18:13,980 --> 00:18:17,060 I printed mine out in black and white here and I have some scribbles. 218 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:25,060 What I want to offer you, as I start to work on some breakout groups, is for you to think about, 219 00:18:25,060 --> 00:18:32,700 What are some of the things that you really want to share and connect with other colleagues in this space? 220 00:18:33,340 --> 00:18:38,880 What are some of the things that you're feeling really drawn to? Maybe some of these study guide questions and maybe it's not. 221 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:45,460 So I just want to mention, I didn't have particular questions where I'm like, we all have to answer this question. 222 00:18:45,460 --> 00:19:04,620 I really wanted it for it to be a chance where you all can, you know, authentically and organically go where you're called to go in conversations around this particular theme in these introduction through chapter two is defining engagement understanding what. 223 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:11,380 After the breakout group, what we're going to do is we'll come back and we'll have some 224 00:19:11,380 --> 00:19:16,300 full groups and we're like processing, sharing any themes that came out from your breakout 225 00:19:16,300 --> 00:19:18,220 group connections or additional questions. 226 00:19:19,020 --> 00:19:23,840 And what I love to do as I love like the question that just came through the chat is think about 227 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:27,920 how we want to move forward in our next session and continue to dive into some of those questions 228 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:32,260 that came up in our session today, some of things that we might still be grappling with. 229 00:19:32,260 --> 00:19:43,380 And if you haven't read the full book that's okay, so some of those questions will also be like you might see them being answered by the authors later on in the book and through other chapters. 230 00:19:45,020 --> 00:19:51,440 So I currently have about 11 breakout groups so there's about three to four participants in the room. 231 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:57,960 Once you get into your room, I will love if you could please introduce yourself again. 232 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:17,280 And, you know, take some time maybe to identify, you know, some of the places you're really drawn to, maybe you can say, like, gosh, I really want to talk about those four modes of engagement and maybe think about like, oh gosh, Kim, just share this data around fifth freighters, my child's in fifth freight and think about these four, maybe that's where you want to go. 233 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:23,500 So take a moment to kind of like frame your hopes for your time together and so that collectively, 234 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:27,220 you all can make sure you have enough space to address everybody's needs. 235 00:20:29,300 --> 00:20:35,420 So we will be in there for about 30 minutes and then I'll put a timer for you all to come back. 236 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:41,520 A damn nine will be popping in and out of rooms. Please don't feel like you need to stop your 237 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:45,760 conversation for us. Please continue to go over there to really be like a fly in the wall and the 238 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:50,580 listener and also to, you know, answer any questions if you do. We don't have all the answers. 239 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:55,060 I'll show you that. But we just want to make sure we're there to be as support for you all. 240 00:20:56,760 --> 00:21:02,080 Okay. Any questions before I open the rooms? And Dan, did you want to say mention something? 241 00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:06,040 Yeah, I was going to ask you before we go to breakout rooms. Are you able to 242 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:12,880 pace the study questions into the chat? So if people want to use that kind of as a base for their 243 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:18,180 conversation if they don't have the study guide right next to them, maybe that could give 244 00:21:18,180 --> 00:21:20,040 them a place to start as well. 245 00:21:20,500 --> 00:21:24,780 Yes, let me just see if I can pull that as you all see me do that in action. 246 00:21:25,780 --> 00:21:29,680 And I'm going to put in the chat, but the thing is, with the breakout groups, once they open 247 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:33,660 up, your chat goes away, okay? 248 00:21:33,980 --> 00:21:41,480 So what I can do is I could broadcast some of the questions. 249 00:21:42,460 --> 00:21:50,220 If you are familiar with the broadcast feature, it'll pop up some of the wording on top of your screen, but it'll fade away after a little bit. 250 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:57,760 So it might be best if you really want the questions there, maybe try to copy it right now in the chat. 251 00:21:58,540 --> 00:22:03,380 And or if you can click on that study die link, that will direct you to this PDF right here. 252 00:22:04,100 --> 00:22:04,420 Perfect. 253 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:08,380 Yeah, thank you all. Thanks for navigating our tech space. 254 00:22:08,380 --> 00:22:15,260 All right. So I'm going to open up the breakout groups. Once again, I believe you have three to four people per room. 255 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:23,000 And if you're having any issues getting into room, please let me know. And we can move you to where you need to be. 256 00:22:24,340 --> 00:22:27,620 Great. So I said, uh, some, we, some of you might have two people per room. 257 00:22:28,260 --> 00:22:29,560 Okay. Here we go. 258 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:42,500 Please let us know if you need any help getting in there. 259 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:54,560 and Dan, I did not assign you so feel free to jump in for every like perfect and I'm seeing I'm 260 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:58,360 able to do that as well. Make 261 00:23:00,540 --> 00:23:08,680 sure everybody gets there. Yes folks have fun. I came I'll go ahead 262 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:13,940 and start we have 11 I'll go ahead and start I'll start at room 11 and work backwards and you start 263 00:23:13,940 --> 00:23:21,040 at room one and move forward. Sounds great. It looks like, yeah, let me jump in with room six. 264 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:25,980 Looks like she just has one front end right now. Okay. Okay, I'll see you. All right. 265 00:23:35,180 --> 00:23:35,620 Yes, 266 00:23:38,140 --> 00:23:43,100 so Jenny, you asked a really great question about. Gosh, we had so many people, you know, 267 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:47,580 register for this great club and so many more. I'm assuming even after this, we'll get more 268 00:23:47,580 --> 00:23:53,400 opportunities for people to sign up and join. And we all know life, life, there's 269 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:58,960 like, give us things to keep us busy. And so we didn't have all our friends in this space together 270 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:04,140 today, but for those who are here, great conversations. I know that happened in a breakout group. I 271 00:24:04,140 --> 00:24:10,940 really appreciate the time I had with my friends in my own space. How are we capturing these 272 00:24:10,940 --> 00:24:17,100 great conversations? How are we sharing these ideas? Is that some of the questions that you've had 273 00:24:17,100 --> 00:24:20,200 Jenny, want to make sure I kept how are we sharing, how are we capturing these ideas 274 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:21,580 and recommending these ideas? 275 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:22,280 Right. 276 00:24:22,620 --> 00:24:28,040 So, as I'm reading through the book, I'm, you know, a lot of my own experiences, and 277 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:32,020 then I have two kids who have really had a difficult time in school. 278 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:39,680 And I have a lot of ideas, and some of them are fairly easy to implement, but some of them 279 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:40,120 aren't, right? 280 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:46,540 So, you know, you have a balance between trying to improve the engagement of in school 281 00:24:46,540 --> 00:24:52,020 to make kids interested to create projects that are more engaging. But then at the same time, 282 00:24:52,020 --> 00:25:01,240 you have the understanding that you have to teach to the test, right? So those have to be balanced. 283 00:25:01,860 --> 00:25:07,000 So that means you have to put together a plan, pick and choose, implement things, try different things. 284 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:13,520 You can't go at it all at once. But we should try, right? I've seen 285 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:25,460 And especially because my kids were in kindergarten and first grade when the pandemic hit, there's a lot of problems that still carry over and a lot of things that we could start working on now to help those kids. 286 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:35,440 But I was just wondering how the district is planning on taking our ideas and maybe putting together a task force that might try to implement some things. 287 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:37,420 Just wondering what the plan is. 288 00:25:39,820 --> 00:25:43,880 I certainly want to answer on behalf of the district, but I put the end of this space. 289 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:49,560 So maybe I forgot about my Zoom and I was on mute when I was trying to talk there. 290 00:25:50,420 --> 00:25:52,500 Yeah, thanks Jenny, great question. 291 00:25:53,660 --> 00:25:56,680 And I don't know that there is a perfect solution quite honestly. 292 00:25:57,940 --> 00:26:05,740 My commitment personally is to engage like as a community of practice as you read through 293 00:26:05,740 --> 00:26:06,140 the book. 294 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:11,880 And I think I shared this. Initially, I was like, oh, this is all about good teaching 295 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:16,920 and learning in classrooms. And then I got to the point I'm like, oh no, this is all 296 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:25,240 about what we do as parents to support. So I think the idea of showing up for the conversation 297 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:33,100 and being part of book groups like VITS allows us to exert our little sphere of influence 298 00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:37,600 on each other, which does grow momentum. 299 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:43,000 As I shared, this is how I launched our district welcome 300 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,820 was all around engagement and agency, 301 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,800 sharing kind of the personal story around my kids 302 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,940 and how I view it as dad 303 00:26:53,940 --> 00:26:57,340 and all of our staff members received a copy 304 00:26:57,340 --> 00:27:01,220 of the book and are engaging at different levels too. 305 00:27:01,740 --> 00:27:10,240 The other thing I'll mention, you mentioned, it's so much to the question, right, like, I think 306 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:16,940 when we think about how we're gauging success, success has got to be more than just a measure on a 307 00:27:16,940 --> 00:27:25,860 state test or an academic assessment. It is an important measure, and we need to look at those measures, 308 00:27:25,860 --> 00:27:31,060 I would say that you kind of said teach to the test, right? 309 00:27:31,980 --> 00:27:38,920 When we develop engaged learning and engage our kids, 310 00:27:39,580 --> 00:27:42,220 the test takes care of itself. 311 00:27:43,260 --> 00:27:44,620 The other way doesn't help. 312 00:27:44,780 --> 00:27:47,320 When we teach to the test, we don't get engagement, 313 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,420 but I can almost guarantee that when we focus on engagement 314 00:27:50,420 --> 00:27:53,840 and agency, we're going to get good test scores, right? 315 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:59,500 So, you know, trying to help kind of reformat that and, you know, I was sharing with one group, 316 00:27:59,860 --> 00:28:08,320 our quite honestly, our educational system isn't perfectly set up and moving mountains to 317 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:14,020 probably make it perfectly set up. But, you know, there's little tweaks and balances that we can do. 318 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:22,840 Kind of my theory of action right now is get the conversation going, get folks talking about 319 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:26,360 about what it is that we want for our kids, big picture, 320 00:28:27,620 --> 00:28:29,840 engage around the study group, 321 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,820 think about the district's profile of a learner. 322 00:28:33,300 --> 00:28:34,940 What does it mean when we ask kids 323 00:28:35,340 --> 00:28:39,320 to think, to innovate, advocate for others in themselves? 324 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,860 Like, I think that gets us closer to the ideal. 325 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,400 But again, little spheres of influence, 326 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:51,660 each of us doing our little outreach and support 327 00:28:51,660 --> 00:28:54,080 to really make broader change. 328 00:28:56,530 --> 00:28:58,610 Jenny, for bringing that question and Dan, 329 00:28:58,770 --> 00:29:00,250 thank you for being in this space. 330 00:29:00,490 --> 00:29:03,070 Like, I don't want to answer this person. 331 00:29:03,770 --> 00:29:05,850 And I'll just say from my perspective 332 00:29:05,850 --> 00:29:07,170 of working at Challenge Success 333 00:29:07,170 --> 00:29:08,950 and with the many schools that we work at, 334 00:29:09,270 --> 00:29:10,990 we are very aligned with Dan and mentioned. 335 00:29:11,410 --> 00:29:13,370 Our core levers are to center student voice, 336 00:29:14,430 --> 00:29:15,850 community driven engagement, 337 00:29:16,250 --> 00:29:19,030 and making sure that our work is equity and research base. 338 00:29:19,770 --> 00:29:21,470 And so when we think about those things 339 00:29:21,470 --> 00:29:23,370 in relation to our goals of well-being, 340 00:29:23,470 --> 00:29:25,570 blind engagement, we really want to ensure 341 00:29:25,570 --> 00:29:28,110 that all communities are on the same page 342 00:29:28,110 --> 00:29:29,750 with that school and home together, 343 00:29:29,930 --> 00:29:31,270 working collectively together, 344 00:29:31,690 --> 00:29:32,570 and what we can do. 345 00:29:33,070 --> 00:29:34,910 Those are the small moves that we can impact. 346 00:29:35,810 --> 00:29:36,990 So I just love in this space, 347 00:29:36,990 --> 00:29:39,470 there are educators from the district, 348 00:29:39,650 --> 00:29:41,830 but also parents and from the district. 349 00:29:42,410 --> 00:29:44,770 So together, you know, really aligning 350 00:29:44,770 --> 00:29:47,690 on what does it mean for engaged learners. 351 00:29:48,550 --> 00:29:48,630 Yeah. 352 00:29:49,410 --> 00:29:57,670 Kim, if I can add to you, you brought up an important point of asking students and 353 00:29:57,670 --> 00:29:59,910 our kids how they're doing. 354 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:29,980 In school, we do that every year through the Youth Truth Survey. We ask parents similar questions and staff as well. And then we do our best to correlate those and use that as data to push our practice. The other thing, and I piggyback that you shared, Kim, in this space today, we have parents, we have educators, we have instructional assistants, classified staff, all wearing very simple 355 00:30:29,980 --> 00:30:34,940 lower hats and switching hats in between and I think that's a great opportunity for us as well. 356 00:30:37,740 --> 00:30:43,280 Everyone I also see like lots of love and affirmations in the chat for the conversations 357 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:48,760 that you all had and I just want to you know appreciate some of you like I know folks had to drop out 358 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:54,420 some people had to do a pickup or maybe had a cook dinner or put their child to bed so I just you know 359 00:30:54,420 --> 00:30:59,820 as in our remaining time I just want to say once again thank you so much for holding space for our 360 00:30:59,820 --> 00:31:05,660 community agreements to center our wellness to be in this time together to engage in this dialogue. 361 00:31:05,660 --> 00:31:11,480 This is so important. And especially knowing there's so much going on for us all in our family and 362 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:17,180 our communities for you to be here in this time is truly a gift. And so this is just the first 363 00:31:17,180 --> 00:31:23,440 conversation. As I mentioned before, we will continue to have more conversations after this. We have 364 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:29,120 three more sessions. But also, you know, bring more friends along. As Jenny had mentioned, we have 365 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:34,340 a lot of people sign up. We want more friends to come join and hang with us. So feel free 366 00:31:34,340 --> 00:31:39,460 to like snap this with your photo and text it's your friend for them to register and I'll 367 00:31:39,460 --> 00:31:46,280 continue to send you all the invites. And after this I'll show the recording. It'll also be made 368 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:53,900 available on your events page. And also I'll send just some follow up next steps for our next session, 369 00:31:53,900 --> 00:31:58,060 session two, which will happen next month, okay? 370 00:31:58,820 --> 00:32:00,640 Thank you all so much for being here. 371 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,200 If you want to stay on for the next three minutes, 372 00:32:03,220 --> 00:32:05,620 please do, but it is 742, 373 00:32:06,180 --> 00:32:07,920 and I know you might also want to be 374 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:09,980 maybe making a hot chamomile tea 375 00:32:09,980 --> 00:32:12,760 and getting settled into your own bedtime routine. 376 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:14,320 So thank you so much. 377 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:15,860 We'll stay on if you'd like to chat 378 00:32:15,860 --> 00:32:18,300 and I'll play some, some little music in the background. 379 00:32:19,500 --> 00:32:20,280 Thank you all. 380 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:29,900 Thank you, thank you. Have a good night. I really appreciate you being here. 381 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:34,580 I'm Rina. I'm healthy. Bye, Johnny. Thank you. Bye, Kira. 382 00:32:35,580 --> 00:32:36,900 Thank you so much.