THE FULL VALUE SCHOOL IBD

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The Full Value School provides a clear roadmap for dramatically changing the culture and climate of your classroom and school.ááUsing highly engaging activity-based strategies, students learn the skills necessary to regulate their own behavior.ááWith less fruitless energy devoted to the disciplinary hamster wheel, there is more time to teach, more time to authentically engage with students, more time to strengthen the essential twenty-first century skills of collaboration and abstract reasoning skills.The Full Value School is not a standalone program.ááTeaching Full Value can be directly integrated into all academic content areas.The tools provided to students are simple:Learning the Six Full Value Behavioral Norms:Be Here, Be Safe, Be Honest, Set Goals, Let Go & Move On, Care For Self & Others:These norms provide the foundation for building the capacity to self-regulate, to develop empathy and compassion, to listen without defensiveness, to self-reflect, to show courage when in situations that require it, to become inoculated against the bullying behaviors of others.ááOur book contains a series of desirable outcomes that are set in motion through the implementation of these norms.The Full Value Commitment:Students co-create a dynamic commitment to each other that defines how the Full Value Behavioral Norms will be used in the classroom when interacting with each other.ááThe Commitment provides a physical representation of the norms.ááFor example, Be Here might include, showing up to class on time prepared to work, listening when spoken to, doing your share in a group project.&rdquo,áThese are student generated behaviors, not prescribed by the teacher.ááDistractors to practicing these positive behaviors are also identified by students and added to the Commitment. Distractors become opportunities for growth instead of negatives.ááThey are considered a process for failing forward.Calling Group:This is a formal meeting process that provides students the opportunities to work through violations of the classroom Full Value Commitment or to celebrate group and individual successes.ááInitially called and facilitated by the teacher, students learn to gradually take full control of this process via modeling, imitation, and practice.Goal Setting:Empowering students to make intelligent choices is very much a goal setting process.ááOddly, very few students are exposed to goal setting strategies as part of their formal education.ááThe Full Value School offers a well-defined process for goal setting including helpful templates.áThe Full Value School model does not rely on videos, hypotheticals, or paper and pencil tasks.ááHundreds of engaging activities are offered in the book to teach each Full Value.ááThey require minimal materials, and most can be completed within a single classroom period.ááWith each activity is a materials list, and suggestion for introducing and reflecting on the experience.ááA full chapter of the book is devoted to integration into