ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT Define environment …

ENVIRONMENT Environment - the social and cultural forces that shape the life of a person or a population.

How can environment impact human response?

Past Environment “I come from …….

What classroom/school environment do we want for each other? Present Environment What classroom/school environment do we want for each other?

What do you want your life to look/feel like? Future Environment What do you want your life to look/feel like? 2. What are you doing NOW to create that?

Super Hero Rock/Paper/Scissors Egg Grouse Dinosaur Super Hero Rules:

Old Labels Die Hard “Stars, Rockets, Moons” by Steve Zimmer http://themoth.org/posts/stories /stars-rockets-and-moons

How/Why do old labels die hard?

Write a quick story about an “old label” that was assigned to you. Old Labels Die Hard Write a quick story about an “old label” that was assigned to you.

Old Labels Die Hard CHALLENGE TO YOU: Share a meaningful compliment or “label” with someone you know in the next 24 hours. Pay attention to their response.

To This Day

To This Day

How Can Environment Impact Human Response? Changing programed response – “The Hello Experiment” from Patch Adams

Values Value - a person's principles or standards of behavior; one's judgment of what is important in life. What does society value in environment? Why? What does our school value in environment?

How can you change long term environments?

Environment Google

Leadership We can change environments by shifting our perspective of leadership: A leader is simply someone who impacts their environment enough that others want to follow.

Appointed Leaders vs. Emergent Leaders Leadership Appointed Leaders vs. Emergent Leaders

Leadership Appointed Leaders – are assigned leadership Emergent Leaders - arise out of occasion or situation - ANYONE can be an emergent leader!

Leadership Leader vs. Manager

Leadership Leader – inspires and motivates Manager – plan, organize, and coordinate

Who are the LEADERS in this building? Leadership Who are the LEADERS in this building? How do you know? What QUALITIES do they exhibit?

Leadership Leaders need good role models too If you were to choose a ‘Board of Directors’ for your life, who would you choose? “Who’s At Your Table?”

Leadership What is a Mentor?

Leadership Mentor - someone who teaches or gives help and advice to a less experienced and often younger person What qualities are important in a personal mentor? How do you ‘find’ a good mentor?

What is servant leadership?

Leadership While servant leadership is a timeless concept, the phrase “servant leadership” was coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in "The Servant as Leader", an essay that he first published in 1970. In that essay, Greenleaf said: “The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions…The leader- first and the servant-first are two extreme types. Between them there are shadings and blends that are part of the infinite variety of human nature.” “The difference manifests itself in the care taken by the servant-first to make sure that other people’s highest priority needs are being served. The best test, and difficult to administer, is: Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And, what is the effect on the least privileged in society? Will they benefit or at least not be further deprived?“

https://greenleaf.org/ what-is-servant- leadership/

Leadership A leader is simply someone who impacts their ENVIRONMENT enough to make others want to follow. “A Superhero Gets Sick” by Tim Manley http://themoth.org/posts/stories/a- superhero-gets-sick

What expectations do we have on mothers? Teachers? Schools? Ourselves? Leadership What expectations do we have on mothers? Teachers? Schools? Ourselves?

Leadership What are ways in which we can shift expectations to a NEW reality? For example – 4 min. mile It was believed this record could never be broken...then after it was broken, MANY people broke the record

Leadership Belief or science? Reticular Activating System - a part of our brain that helps decide what information to FOCUS on and what to delete

Leadership Reticular Activating System

Leadership Leadership Lessons: Dancing Guy https://www.youtube.com/w atch?x-yt- cl=84359240&v=fW8amMCVA JQ&x-yt-ts=1421782837

Write a short story about your mom Leadership Write a short story about your mom

Leadership CHALLENGE TO YOU: Who is at your lunch table? Sit in a totally different spot at lunch (can bring a friend). Engage in a conversation with someone outside your comfort zone.

Leadership Clarity and Purpose

Leadership Often great moments and movements in history where individuals have impacted their environments often start with “ordinary” people, not appointed leaders.

Leadership Freedom Writers

Leadership Coach Carter

Leadership “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.” We are all meant to shine, as children do...It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. (Source: Marianne Willamson, A Return to Love: Reflectionson the Principles of “A Course in Miracles” - commonly misattributed to Nelson Mandela 1994 inauguration speech)

Leadership Why are High Schoolers often “afraid” to be great? (in school/life) Why is it more appealing to be, and remain, inadequate? Who/what in your environment “teaches” you that this is okay?

Philosophy

Philosophy What is philosophy?

Philosophy Philosophy - An overall VISION or ATTITUDE toward life or the purpose of life

Philosophy You arrive at deeper meanings/ideas by thinking about QUESTIONS more than you do ANSWERS. What are your current driving life philosophies?

Philosophy

What were Steve Jobs’ three stories? Philosophy What were Steve Jobs’ three stories?

Philosophy