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The Hawn Foundation and Marian University are pleased to announce two days of professional development opportunities for educators and school leaders. Research shows that IQ accounts for only about 20 percent of a person’s success in life. Research shows time and time again through the work of Dan Goleman and others, that professions, jobs skills and life satisfaction is acquired and embraced through the ability to relate to others – NOT on academics and IQ scores. When we are able to teach our students to perceive a problem as a challenge through a relaxed and focused mind, their perspectives open and clarity of thought is present along with enhanced memory skills. Building relationships, self-reflection and assisting our students in critical thinking skills where perspective drives learning is an enormous aspect of the Mind Up curriculum. These skills are sorely missing in the urban settings where students are most at risk for school failure. These areas of intelligence are a small portion of the child and adolescents’ innate strengths, as there are seven other intelligences we need to enhance by providing our teachers with the groundwork that builds the social-emotional skills.
This has enabled our teachers and leaders to give their students an open door to enter higher education providing a vehicle for enhanced opportunities and success. In the Leadership Academy and our expanding graduate programs through ITF, TFA, Project Bridge, and Summer Learning Institute we continue to successfully address, communicate and instruct through data driven methodology that closes the achievement gap, as well as providing strategies and tools that enhance formal and informal assessments through our two dominant intelligences of Math and Linguistics.Their boredom, lack of engagement and “chronic stress” becomes prevalent for educators and students inhibiting their potential and choices for learning and living in and out of the classroom.
When we look at the repetitive behavioral and classroom management issues and the concerns our teachers bring to their coursework at Marian, the overall angst and frustration lies with the students consistently bringing a victim mentality to their school and home life, as well as their relational skills with peers and teachers. Mind-Up Curriculum is the core component allowing our students to embrace optimism, self-regulation, self-reflection, and resiliency.
While academics is the essential component of educational work, when students are not feeling successful, the best, most well planned and efficient lessons mean nothing if the there is not an emotional and relational connection to teacher and subject matter.Recognizing that chronic stress of students, teachers, and parents is the disorder of the 21 st century dictates the urgency of initiating and integrating a holistic focus on the emotional and social skills needed to live inside and outside of school. Mind-Up Curriculum through the Hawn Foundation is a large and significant aspect of developing a brain based neuroscience strand inside our graduate and post graduate courses.“Getting it Right! The Transformative Power of Neuroscience in Education” MindUP Regional Workshop Indianapolis 2011 | The Hawn Foundation
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