What does Connecting with Compassion have to do with a
Make A Difference school year?
Many think that being compassionate is about placating rather than directly addressing unnecessary and unskillful behaviors.
What you, your faculty and your students will experience in this 9-week curriculum is just how palpable and powerful Connecting with Compassion actually is in transforming every kind of challenging situation the human experience offers.
This IS what creates a learning environment where every student succeeds.
In your preparation to do this 9-week curriculum, it is my highest recommendation that you begin by watching our Teddy Stallard Story movie at: www.MakeADifferenceMovie.com.
This movie was inspired by "Three Letters From Teddy," a short story first published in 1974. It is a durable classic told from endless numbers of podiums.
It reminds us why we got into education. The instant success of this beloved story as a flash movie led me to create its companion book to sustain the huge - Make A Difference - momentum this story generates. It takes us all back to "core values," which brings compassion to the classroom as one of the primary fundamentals to engage students in wanting to learn and be successful citizens.
The impact of what Teddy says to Miss Thompson instantly connects us to what really matters in any given situation. He is the anchor that provides a visceral reminder that anyone can instantly access compassion in emotionally charged situations.
What we - as a society - tend to do, is much like what Miss Thompson did initially: put big red F's on the failing work being handed in and treating challenging individuals with disdain and skepticism.
What we all have the capacity within us to do, however, is to seek understanding. Through understanding, we can access that compassionate place within ourselves to reach out and let children, parents, faculty and staff know that they matter.
Compassion is the variable that will re-energize your school culture - and inspire greater academic engagement and success: Despite what some may think, working harmoniously with challenging students will not be won on the front lines by changing specific techniques and processes at the "be nice" level. Rather, it's a culture of compassion and understanding that makes the difference in all human interactions.
Statistics indicate that court appointed Anger Management Classes are not as successful as had been hoped. However, new findings reveal that as people learn to reconnect to their core values, which includes learning how to re-access inherent compassion, there are great sustainable gains now being made, and that these offenders are not repeating their visits to the judicial system.
Professional trainers now working with court appointed abuse offenders are teaching them the power of compassion, and it's working in profound ways. If it works in this arena, certainly compassion will have a huge impact in the culture of our schools as we place importance on it.
This is the kind of book that does the work for you: Making A Difference with the Power of Connection Gift Book & Movie (connectionmovie.makeadifference.com) is helping to transform our mass consciousness to one of peace and harmony through a beautiful, easy to read book that allows educators and parents to get in touch with the innermost core of their being, to know that they have more power than they have ever realized, and to know that they can influence what is happening through the energy generated from compassion. When everything else fails, compassionate connection gets it done!!
And now, here's the sampler of WEEK 2 of my 9-Week Make A Difference School Curriculum so you can see just how DOABLE this is!
You can DO THIS ... teaching is incredibly rewarding when students are actively learning and directly involved in each other's well being.
Reaching out to make a world of difference NOW!
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