1. The Ohio Center for Essential School Reform 1 KTECH : Knowing, Trusting, Empowering, Connecting, Honoring in Your Small School Elements of Personalization that Make a Difference for Students and Small School Climate

2. The Ohio Center for Essential School Reform 2 Independent vs. Dependent Student Behaviors Independent Learners: Figure out what is confusing Set goals for getting through the reading Use many strategies for getting through the text Know how to make the mostly invisible – visible Dependent Learners: Stop Appeal to the teacher for assistance Read through, just to get done Keep the mostly invisible process of comprehension at the invisible level When the going gets tough, students who are…

3. The Ohio Center for Essential School Reform 3 Three reasons for dependency in learning Lack of cognitive confidence Lack of social and emotional confidence Lack of stamina to find or complete a task KTECH is one approach to systematically improving the social and emotional confidence within your small school.

4. The Ohio Center for Essential School Reform 4 Personalization in Your Small School A Systemic Approach to School Climate

5. The Ohio Center for Essential School Reform 5 Five Essential Components to Personalization Knowing Trusting Empowering Connecting Honoring

6. The Ohio Center for Essential School Reform 6 Four Essential Lenses Through Which Personalization Should be Examined Students Staff Community Self

7. The Ohio Center for Essential School Reform 7 Students Brainstorm on post-it notes the way/ways in which your small school KNOWS each student well One idea per post-it please Place a K on the upper right corner

8. The Ohio Center for Essential School Reform 8 Students Make an affinity Diagram of the ideas gathered for KNOWING students One person read one post-it to the group. Anyone with the same or similar idea, hand over the post-it and create a group. Title the group. Place the group on your poster paper. Move to the next person to read one idea. Continue until all ideas have been categorized. Group Title Post-it Group Title Post-it

9. The Ohio Center for Essential School Reform 9 Students Brainstorm on post-it notes the way/ways in which your small school demonstrates TRUST between the students and the school One idea per post-it please Place a T on the upper right corner Create Affinity Diagram of TRUST

10. The Ohio Center for Essential School Reform 10 Students Brainstorm on post-it notes the way/ways in which your small school EMPOWERS each student One idea per post-it please Place an E on the upper right corner Create a fishbone of EMPOWERMENT

11. The Ohio Center for Essential School Reform 11 Fishbone Technique Goal or Idea Empowerment Category Idea Category Idea Category Idea Category Idea

12. The Ohio Center for Essential School Reform 12 Students Brainstorm on post-it notes the way/ways in which your small school HONORS each student One idea per post-it please Place an H on the upper right corner Create affinity diagram for your small schools HONORING practices

13. The Ohio Center for Essential School Reform 13 Students Brainstorm on post-it notes the way/ways in which your small school connects with each student in each of the areas articulated through the Thompson and Hallowell study Finding the Heart of a Child, 1992 One idea per post-it please Place a 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 on the upper right corner to designate the kind of connection Create an affinity map for your small schools CONNECTION practices. Connecting 1.Social Connections 2.Connections with Information/Ideas 3.Connections to Organizations/Institutions 4.Family Connections 5.Spiritual Connections

14. The Ohio Center for Essential School Reform 14 Affinity Mapping Technique Helping Students Connect with… Family Organizations And Institutions Social and Emotional Experiences Spirituality Ideas and Information Dances

15. The Ohio Center for Essential School Reform 15 Staff, Community The discussion is valuable and necessary for all stakeholders Using the format, find out what the expectations are for your staff Convene focus groups of staff members to establish the expectations for themselves and to learn from each other Convene focus groups of community members (parents, businesses, etc.) to establish their expectations for the school with regard to personalization in the five areas. Convene focus groups of students to establish the expectations for the staff when it comes to personalizing their experiences

16. The Ohio Center for Essential School Reform 16 Last But Not Least… Self What do you need to be known, to be trusted, to be empowered, to be connected, to be honored? What do you need from the small school so that your learning is personalized?

17. The Ohio Center for Essential School Reform 17 Changing school climate is dependent upon the degree to which you and your staff concentrate on personalization within your small school. KTECH is one approach to beginning the essential conversations necessary to produce real change.