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So, thank you for coming

Like Amian was saying, I had the opportunity to travel to Finland this year

Actually, my family came with me because my husband said "Well, you're going on a business trip

Then we're all joining you on this business trip."

So they also had the opportunity to come with us, which was really incredible.

But mommy was there to work and work I did and I learned a lot

As educators, we know that when we research and we learn things there's nothing like seeing it firsthand

When I went to Finland, you know everything I read about I expected to see and I saw everything.

And more so, what the books say is

really true so my first the title of this presentation is called "Why Finland? Eight reasons

Why Finland Is On Top Of Its Education Game" and

those of you

May know anything about Finland and may not but recently they has been number one in education for a long time

literacy, science, math...they've been on top of their game and

people in America are how did this country doing what we strive to do and

Sometimes some people are great at it and some schools are not, some places in the United States

you know do it better but why as a whole country are they doing things right and

Right here

I was saying do not ask me to pronounce it because I

Learned in one word while isn't feeling that it was ketose and that means thank you

but the rest of it I don't know but I chose to say this because one of the things that I

appreciated while I was there, especially, you know being a nervous American and always on the go and

They're very present. So when they are here and they are wherever they are, they're focusing on that and

After I can share with you after the presentation

I wrote some articles one of the articles that I talked about this the honking phenomenon because the entire time we were there

We heard nobody honk. And so I asked somebody

I said why aren't you honking and they said well?

Clearly whoever is in front of us is there because they need to be there and something is going on

So why should I honk and and I'll just you know, be patient?

so when I saw this it really resonated with me because the Fins are

present at all times and they're not always worrying about what else is going and so I thought that was important

Okay, here's Finland, right it's a country with a small population I just saw in 2018 they had

5.4 million

People across the country, so it's not you know humongous

But why are they making such a huge impact on the educational world?

And I have a short video clip that I would like to show you before

Okay, so presentation over cuz they told you everything you need to know right but a lot of my presentation

I want to say that in my cohort

Some of the people actually went to that school. I

Didn't but that's a real thing that you saw the kids come in every where they take their shoes off. They had outdoor clothes

They had an indoor clothes

It's a much more relaxing environment. How many of you let your kids take their shoes off in your classrooms?

Can I ask what made you decide to do that?

And then once they did it the first time they saw they liked it

As long as it doesn't interfere with learning for Chumash...why not? Exactly. And did you notice any change in the learning environment if they were more comfortable? No

So we're gonna see in this slide actually that

How they keep things stored in the kindergarten, right? So because of boots muddy, right? They don't want you bringing in the outdoor

junk into the classroom. The classroom is supposed to be a safe clean environment

so like you just said why I'm gonna bring that in part of the

Okay

Cooperation versus competition. Okay, so they talked a little bit about that in the video, but

Finland

education system knows that the proper way to

Have success in children is for everybody to cooperate together. There's no competition

Among the schools. They all have the same curriculum, right? That's Dean from the Ministry of Education

And like you saw they do not have politicians telling them and everything is funded through public money

So there's no reason to

I'm gonna do this. You're gonna do this. I'm gonna be better. I mean better

No, they know that the best way to do that is to collaborate

So this is a big word in there and I love this sentence here. There's no word for accountability and finish

But the education expert Posse Stoppard, he'll hear his name mentioned often

He talked a lot about that T word trust

That was one of the biggest things that I learned when I was there is that everybody trusts each other. I

Can't even imagine letting my students go on a cross-country skiing

exhibition by themselves

That would be crazy. I can't my kids go out of the house and go next door, right?

so after coming back from Finland

That was one of the things that I tried to work on for myself is how to just trust in other people

But 90% of what we're going to hear it's cultural and when we're living in America these things - just don't resonate with us

but here, they do

There are

Basically, no private schools in Finland

Everything is public but in the early childhood, they started having more private schools and when I found that was interesting

And I really didn't get a great answer as to why they're even having them

But like I said, they have to follow the same curriculum

so it's kind of a mystery as to why they're starting all these different private schools when the public schools are free and they're

All teaching the same things

So I haven't got a good answer for that yet

It's not because there is no preschools? No, there are preschools

I don't yet. They do. I don't know why they don't start primary school until age 7

But they had their early childhood is one of the most things that they're famous for

So I don't know why they said that I wonder if that child just didn't choose to go but everybody

Has an opportunity to go and it's free

Okay teaching is one of the most respected professions

Let's let that sit in for a second

Because I feel nowadays and I want this to be interactive

so feel free to you know, say something if you want, but I feel nowadays that

Unfortunately teaching has not been appreciated as much as it was previously

Does anyone feel that way?

It's okay to raise your hands if you do

Everyone feels valued as an educator

No, okay, right. So in Finland, it's still one of the most respected

Professions it is it is of the utmost respect

I know we're not talking about Hawaii, but I

Happen to teach in Hawaii and also there, you know in America or it was next to see it's also respected. So

They treat them like royalty and in Finland also teachers are very very very highly respected

Worse there are 50 but they still respect their teachers and they still value them as

Educators as professionals. I think that's the key word. Right and so in Finland, they are looked at as professionals

And again, we're going to go back to the trusting word. So you're a teacher you're respected because you've gotten your master's degree, right?

So everybody who's a teacher has to go through that same program and you have to have a high level degree

They go through what's the equivalency here of somebody going in a residency program in a medical school

So there's a lot to go through in order to become that. Yes

Again a lot of this cultural right so they want to become professionals because why not? Yes

So they're in education and in the secondary schools, they have two quick outs of

Concentration and I'm actually not sure what they do for them

So as you see here

The teachers they know what they're doing

right, so you're not going to find somebody that is not current on what's going on in the education world in the research and like

I said we were talking about cooperation right and collaboration

Everyone is on the same page because they're going through the same things together. So it's a very nice way to have an interaction

Oh you went to this school. I went to that school

We learned this we were and that so they have a variety things 31 different universities throughout the country

but they're all learning in the same way and that

Was interesting

So they work as a student teacher same as we would do in America, but

Elementary schools. They have affiliations with otologist

So again, it's that same

Collaboration so the colleges are working with the elementary school. It's kind of like here in America, but it's a little bit more extensive

So there's giving them what to work on and they're giving them what to work on. So it's a little bit more cohesive

Okay, Finland listens to the research

In Finland research comes with virtually no political baggage right. Now. How many of you work in private schools?

Anybody in public?

Okay

so when we talk about

Politics right? So when you're in a private school, it's not you know, you have government and you have politics like that

But you talk about politics and other ways you talk about your board politics. You can talk about your parent politics, right?

There's a lot of politics, right?

But in Finland, they they doesn't come with that

right

So they are doing studies themselves

Because they are listening to the teachers and they more importantly are listening to the students

You'll see a little bit later that they ask the students. What do you want, right?

What do you want on your playground? What do you want to eat?

What do you think is a good option and they listen to them and they make their curriculums around that and that's in all levels

right

So they know they're not even though they have the Ministry of Education and they have their curriculum to follow

teachers have the autonomy to really do what they need to do and

they are not having standardized testings like we are having also they have

That they have to take what's called the Pisa exams every four years, but other than that they are not

The teachers themselves and they create the assessments that they need based on their

All right, well

Anybody here who knows me knows that I appreciate a healthy

Lifestyle and healthy food. And before I went to Finland, one of the things that constantly kept coming up

It's my research are the healthy lunches that are provided for the students

so when you're in a primary school, which is great one through six you are giving one healthy meal every single day and that

Is for lunch. So if you look here in this bright picture that was when I was at the primary school

and it's hard to tell that they have this beautiful salad bar set up with tons of vegetables and

Salads and then their hot lunch. I forgot what they were having that day, and then I don't have a picture up

But then they have this beautiful set up of different threads and shelli using butter. It was just amazing

Actually, they weren't serving fish I did not remember what they were serving they were serving like what we would say it like schnitzel but

The students

The teachers do eat with the students and it's all a part of this teacher

Involvement here that I have at the bottom and social etiquette

So it's hard to see you again, but that is primary school the kids, you know

Like they have this in public school kids take their trees and they walk and they put it in the back behind

Right and then put it back. But normally you have somebody behind there that's washing the dishes right? Well not here

there's a rotation and the kids are taught how to wash how to put things away and when there's

yes, exactly and

It's all part of those people matters that are there

And if you look in the middle, this was when I was in the kindergarten classroom

and Here I am with my kosher bad lunch and everyone's sitting here eating what I

Was

That was very impressive to me

There was

The government

No, they're doing this

In Baltimore, we do everything to reverse there's no respect for the teachers

Within the community the children have no respect for the teachers. So what kind of learning can go on?

You know, there's no support for young children when they're first born whether it's a single family or whatever

Just to stack those brokers. So in a safe

Protected manner where the parents or parents are with that child

It's just absolutely the opposite. Yeah, I mean, I don't think that's just Baltimore, you know

I think not a man a lot of places their answers regrettably

absolutely, and I think that's why it's important that we

You know be here and learn about it and go and travel and see different things and whatever we can take from that right like

I said 90% disco, but we can take from that. Hopefully you can bring you know back here and and try to change things but

So I said a lot of got healthy casados really important scene, but the last picture here on the left

Was also when I was in the kindergarten

It's hard to see but there are long tables set up and yet again

The kids are in charge of setting up the tables cleaning up the table even as young as six years old

because there's no reason not to and

the way that they're EC EC is structured so

When you're you know

If a parent goes back to work right after a year

Child can enter that system and they can be there until they're six and they call it

You can earn it, but they pick and shoot like it's a really weird system

They have a certain amount of hours set up that you're allowed to be in the system and you can have up to

20 hours or something extra if you need it, so they're open right when they're younger for like 6 a.m

Until 6 a.m. 6 p.m. Excuse me, and then if they're there that long then they're offered that other three meals per day

Breakfast lunch and a healthy snack

Children and my kids we're snapping and snapping and snacking and these kids are like, okay like

So I asked somebody about that and they don't snacks

So in schools even in the upper school the upper school. They're allowed to have like a snack in the later time

but in the younger school, they had one snack that is provided whether it's a yogurt or to food or this or that and

That's it and something more important to that is

They have to try everything it is a rule in the country

I'm telling you it was not I'm telling you they said it in one school

I went to another school and I asked them about it and they're like, yep. They have to try

Two questions

I was disciplined handled and

If a child it's a little more challenged than others

How is that handled with that classroom until it's to the point where obviously they really need to be in a totally separate setting right?

So I I'm gonna answer the best my ability because I don't know 100%

But what I do know is let's say the younger school the ratio right is they have three teachers in the classroom?

And they have one specific teacher. I think they said a little bit about this in video older group also. Yes, uh-huh

Dedicated to any child that has any sort of problems. Whether that's a learning problem when it's a behavior problem

They have something dedicated to them

And what's also good to note is that that person also went through the equipment say of the same education level as a teacher?

When you are in the preschool, it's a little bit different. They call them nurses so their degree throws little bit different

But again, they're still going through the same type of education process

but

It's funny that you say that because in both of the schools that I went to so it's in the kindergarten environment for two days

And then I was in a primary school

The other time and it was a first grade and a fifth grade and the entire time I was there. I was like this I

Was waiting waiting for somebody to like shout out for someone to say something what

I was waiting for it and I was with

Another American and Singh from Texas and heard how he was looking at each other

We knew what we were thinking. So in the kindergarten classroom, we saw one boy

Very adorable sweet little kid for sure, you know

We would say here that he had some attention and focusing type of things. So he's laying on the couch

they have a couch set up in one of the play areas in the

Kindergarten and he's hanging over the couch and his hands are on the floor

It's beat her up here and he's looking around and all the rest of the kids are paying attention to the teacher

This is one of their teacher guided lessons

So they have that for one hour and you can be burdened in the rest of the day. It's basically play at lunch and

I was waiting to see like what was going to happen, right? And again, I told you that there are three teachers in the room

So one was sitting next to him one was teaching and one was with a bunch of other kids and well

They just let him be

And at one point the teacher went over to him

And she just put her hand like that

Good and that was the end of it

And so I spoke to the kindergarten teacher after and she was telling me that from the start of their

School and all right just like we prepare the kids for what we want them to do

So if we want them to ignore it certain behaviors

We're going to prepare them for that and the best way to do that

We know as educators is to model that right. So anytime a child would do something that was

You know, that was highly I guess not inappropriate meaning they had to deal with it

They ignored it and so once the teacher ignored it the children just got used to ignoring it

And so I was down April

So I'm sure that kid was doing this throughout the rest of the month

But they were so used to it that nobody paid attention to it

And he was just kind of left alone to do what he needed to do

And then once they broke from that he got right back in the groove and then they all true by two walked outside

Put there. Well, he's on and they were going out and playing their outdoor shoes on and it was like

Great, let's move on. So that was

My friend who was there

But this is also important to know that

That question was in a secondary school

So that's my high school girl was sitting there on her cell phone and she was ordering boots, right?

The teacher said nothing just kept on teaching when the girl was done ordering her boots

She put her cellphone down went straight back to what she was doing at the end of the class the teacher walked over to her

And said kind of boots did you order?

The girl said love a blonde. I remember the boots and the teacher said awesome. Can't wait to see you tomorrow

Conversation no, right. What does that mean? Right so you can interpret that in a few different ways. Does anyone want to

Try to interpret that

Okay, so they have one level expected that she would do what she knew she should do it for whatever

The opposite of that is perceivable so it's a teacher

Without accountability she

Would drive us crazy, but did she really miss? Of course?

Further by ordering those boots

Maybe that's all that was driving her crazy, and she wasn't able to focus

Until she ordered the goods and then she kind of focused back

We won't even know our cell phone in the classroom

There were a few words that were thrown around trust

Accountability and we're gonna get this towards the end

Confidence the teacher had confidence within herself and what she was teaching that she didn't need to

Remark at that point. You know what?

she said to the friend my friend and asked her about this like did you you knew she was already good someone good really and

Again, this is third hand but you know

My friend said if the teacher said she was like she needed to do what she needed to do at that time if I went

Over and made a big deal about it. It would have been a much bigger deal

But you saw sure the booty should put the phone down. So I'm right back to the lesson

This is a good student like the teacher just knew the kid. I knew like what you're saying at that moment

That's that you need to do that and it wasn't really affecting anybody also talk about the order your group

I think it also says something about their level of professionalism that they're familiar enough with child development to know like when the

you know at what age do you need to continue teaching those skills and i18 what age like she knows I

Just have to trust her

Know they're not perfect. It was just that. Okay, so I'm gonna get to this next slide

They know that play time isn't valuable so when they're not at play time they are focused on what they are doing

right

and this is something that we can easily bring back into our schools something really try to do at my school and

You know in the elementary schools, it's a little bit easier than it is in a middle school because you have different periods

But they have 15 minutes of play for every 45 minutes of instruction

Because all I started showing up

Every single grade from the elementary up until the primary and in the kindergarten they have like an hour of play is how 15

Chunks or 15 minutes or an hour?

Or 45 minutes 45 minutes exactly. It's by law. They have 45 minutes of instruction and then they have 15 minutes

So it's not a minute chunks before the line to 9:45 and then 905. I'm right with that recomment and to be like that

Yeah, exactly, and then they're done at their school day at 1 o'clock

but so, you know in the United States right when I do a lot of their research and you know

I don't know if you guys how many of you see those videos that are going around, you know

Facebook or Instagram all these different things now about recess, right and why recess is important. You don't know that inherently

We all know that kids need to play but we get bogged down

By we gotta finish this quick them that fish that we gotta do this. We gotta do that

So we take it away

But really we know like I'm using quotes that it saves us time in the school day to allow them to go outside

to have free time and to go play so

If you see here that they they they are required

This is what form of the classes that to go outside for those 15 minutes

And I said, well what if it's raining and she looked at me?

And said they haven't

And they have wrinkles and they have boots, right?

So again, they they're bringing in all these different elements so that we can enable them to be successful

and she said I think the woman in the

Primary school was telling me that she could remember one time that been and allowed the kids to go outside if there's an extenuating

Circumstance, obviously, they'll allow them to be in for one of the breaks

She said but they the schools are set up for them to be successful. So they have warnings and they have you know

Forests and they put their bikes and they bring their roller blades and they have all of these different

equipment for the kids to

It gets yet gets dark it's not 24 hours but it gets dark very early at certain times of the year and especially in

Suriname yeah, so putting in 20 nurse like it's not 24 hours yet, son

I think they were telling me like where I was I can help to get it like to fuck in the afternoon at one point

It would get dark

so

So play is really really important

and I put this picture on here on purpose because you see that there Allen snow playing and

Having a great time and you know things

we can talk about play for hours and that could be a whole another session but

You know play obviously teaches the kids so many different

qualities that you're not going to get from other things and you know

the whole thing like Abby was talking about like not going into this into the

Classroom with mud on the students at the whole big thing about the shoes

There's so much more to that. Right? So in the kindergarten they give them swimmin

That means you take them on a bus. They have to get changed

They have to write they put other babies if he responds with their clothes

They have to go to the book and I was in kindergarten. It's no big deal

I can't even take my own children to the prom without having a nervous breakdown

You're taking 24 kindergarteners to the swimming pool. She's like its life

You need to prepare them for life

And I think you know that's another sense of this whole thing is how do we preparing children?

To be life learn earth. They need to know how to take off their shoes put on slippers, right?

Because that's what they do here when they put on, you know different kinds of shoes and it's showed in the video

But where I was they put on like them the slipper type shoes

And they need to know how to put on their hats and how to put on their gloves and their scarves and their winter clothes

And all of these different things to be prepared for what's coming, so it just makes a lot of sense

Yeah, we Jews are responsible for teaching our children to swim

Seriously, is it?

Yeah, but but I'm wondering that the goal of education is to make a person successful in a society that wants to

perpetuate that kind of society

So the girl with the cell phone I would have thought it would be better if there was a mechanism for her to ask

Without destruction. Could I be excused for two minutes? Ya see what I mean? Because

In adult life in the middle of a meeting or something

You need permission to not disrupt

Yeah the situation right again, you know, I wasn't I'm not saying I agree or disagree of that situation

It was just like an interesting, you know something that came up and eternally respond. You got discipline. Yeah

Yes, so they eat lunch with them and they're on the playground, but they have a rotation just like we would hear

I'm sorry, I only broach that topic briefly

With one person so I don't know exactly how it's handled

I know that it's a problem just like it would be anywhere else and I think that

Miss Jen or something not just

Control over that so

You know, they said they deal with it like anything else. They have social-emotional programs. They have counselors on hands

It's not just like pushed to the side

but they have teachers that go outside at research recess on a rotation this and that but they did say that

It was just like anywhere else

Your friend who was in the more high school environment where they have sex education classes

I'm actually I'm sure they do but not that we

Okay kids have very little homework

So in Finland, they have very little nightly homework and they are only given what they need to and you know

It stems from this philosophy that again that there's a mutual level of trust between the teachers and the schools and the parents

So the parents aren't trusting that. Okay you go to school if you learn what you need to do

You don't have to come home and work on it again

And the teachers are trusting the students within the classroom that you're getting what you need during the day

And so they value the family time. Not that you know that we don't hear but their rationale for that

Is that like when you're home you're home you're with your family

You'll come back the next day and obviously suppose to be working for them

but

There are tons and tons of schools now in the United States that are saying that homework is not necessary

You know again, there's always research to dispute research students be research but you know, the evidence here is proven that it is

They have somewhere in Finland in the upper grades, right, that's what they say that

Okay this

Non emphasis on homework conflict with the idea

That education has to continue during this summer vacation

We're here at people in an affluent environment have different enrichments going on but kids who are not in that situation

Lose much of what they have learned

Whether in class or in class plus homework, right? So I'm just seeing this to me. There's a little bit of a

Yeah

Okay, so here we're talking about the EC EC which is the early childhood education and care

So we've been talking about this

You know a little bit but they have a high high enrollment because they are extremely extremely high quality preschool

They like again a caseta before they are teaching life skills. So they're coming out of these

Kindergarten ready for the primary school. Of course, you're gonna have a next option

Right, but the majority are coming out and they are ready to go. They're ready to read. They're ready to learn

They're ready to be students right there

They're anxious to go in and go and to do that, but you know, it's set up so that you can leave one school

No matter where you are in the country and go to the next primary school because like we said before they're collaborative, right?

They're all kind of on the same curriculum. So it's an easy

an easy fix

The time self-will go to okay college tuition is free

So they subsidize even higher education and so they have little to no bones. Okay

That's quoted said it takes a huge burden away from the other people's minds when they don't need to wonder whether they can afford to

pay for their studies and

it comes from the belief that

Higher education is a human right and also a great equalizer in our society

Before that in

The nordic countries they had international students also can go for free and then some of those countries took it away

But finland has not taken that away yet. They still have to qualify to get into college or is everyone up entitled to it

So that's also a very interesting question. So we've broach that topic

I don't know 100% what i've gathered from what who is saying?

Is that depending on I think what you want to go into?

Which I don't fully know that hundred percent on that, but that's kind of what you're saying

They didn't discuss it

Right, right

I mean, yeah, it's all developmental right so they don't believe that kids until a certain age are ready to read

So when should you read that should be in great point. I'm not sure it is. So that's our step here. You're seven

So they don't believe that you know the sixth grade. They're still not mature enough

So that's not going to be in the secondary school. So we're gonna go ahead of that. I

Could say with certainty that that comes from research

Yes

Though they graduate from high school, yes, they don't graduate high school at 19

Wouldn't be 19

Okay

No, I'm pretty sure they're not because we talked about that because they were saying that is 17 and 18 year old right even 16

it's maybe I'm but that's what

That they had a decline in kids wanting to go after secondary school, too

Even though it's very, you know, well

And that's what people do but they were saying that the boys

More than the girls were dropping out and didn't want to go further in their education

So the women in Finland hold higher esteem professions than the men

so they're trying to do everything they can to try to get that's

Okay

IPads and smart boards so they had smart boards, but the technology was very limited. I didn't see it anywhere

But then I was talking to one of the staff members about it

primary school that I was in and she said that so this coming up school year the

Younger kids are getting the iPads and the older kids are getting Chromebooks, but it's not a one-to-one. They're getting a certain amount for

their class but you know

I didn't really talk about this but it's very simple there, right?

A lot of the stuff that they do is simple here, you know

We're always trying to do this and do that. And what's better than what's best

And so they also think like that right and they're progressive but you know

They don't feel like they need all of these different types of equipments to educate the children

That was one thing that we we're talking about. Okay, so, how can we make this a reality in our schools?

okay, and I think that that's

You know what? Everyone might be thinking right now?

So I wanted to show you something really fast

And I know that there's some controversy of Michael Moore but he made a short little clip that I wanted to

to share with you about creating joy and positivity within our

Classrooms because we all know that that when we're happier, it breeds happiness, right?

And so one of the things that is really important to them obviously in all of us to be to create a positive atmosphere

So after that

I want to talk. I want you guys to talk amongst yourselves about some of the ways that you create positive atmospheres within their classroom

Moses and Michael Voris humor

Okay, so maybe we won't watch it that if we can't really hear and I'll just tell you because

Unless you guys want to watch it

Yeah, one of the changes that they must have done is that they got 30 teachers in a classroom because

They always even though these 60s and have three teachers that's there. I don't know actually how far back I don't

Remember what it said one is for special it doesn't matter three teachers even modeling good behavior

Changes the entire dynamic of what is going on in the classroom?

Only needs attention is those it makes changes it changes how much?

culture is brought into the classroom from the teacher rather than from the student side like if

It changes your entire

classroom you have to see I look at it as

Children's brain not ready to learn to read

And so what do we do

This three-step research result and I've never agree with it ever

And he's

Funny really learn in second grade. Well, we're making some changes in Orca - so we can talk about that one. Later

but we are on the same page as you not seventh grade, but first grade and

Way to go

so basically

You know

he was saying in this video that

there's a positive atmosphere which we've all seen and that at the end of the day right besides the trust besides this besides that they

have joy

They're like the same before they're happy and you see other kids faces and you know

Amy was saying don't come between you're gonna fall you're gonna fall right the kindergarten teacher was telling me that she gotta put a

swing set next to the gate cuz that American dude was like we would never put a

Swing set there the kid kid turns out the gate can fly open then we where there are swings and you know

She just look you guys are crazy

Like you have to trust that they're going to be able to do the right things and you know

They were saying in the video that they learn a lot from climbing trees. They learn about risk-taking

They you know, they learn about you know, problem-solving, you know and collaborating with someone else

Are you there to catch me right? So that was probably they were saying so

If you want to take, you know

30 seconds to talk to your neighbor about what are some of the ways that you create a positive atmosphere within your classroom

Okay, so I'll tell you a little bit about what they do

Okay, so this was my most be trick, right

This is my most favorite thing that I saw respect right because that word is universal

Right doesn't matter how it's spelled but it's a universal word, right?

we all have to have respect so some of the things that I

Mail just for myself that I found to create a positive atmosphere is mutual respect

Right mutual respect between each other mutual respect to the teachers and the students a mutual respect between the parents leadership everybody

natural light

okay, natural light every single classroom didn't matter what school we were in everybody had natural light and it really makes a

humongous difference and the last thing that I saw with

peaceful calm environment

Talk about how do you create that this and that but calm?

Peaceful atmosphere where you're mindful of yourselves and what's around you right creates a positive joyous atmosphere

Okay to be or not to be a zombie

Right. So how many shrimp kids sitting in the class and I'm like honestly or they're not paying attention

They're looking out the window, right? We've lost them they're done. Right? So you're talking about this after a lot of talking

An ounce of time right these children begin to act like that because they need a break

That's we're talking about those breaks before our so

important going outside rain or shine getting that fresh air and having that break is so

Important and all of the research shows that breaks into happen regularly to benefit the students

So I would like to hear from you. How do you offer breaks within your your class day?

So you're gonna get and talk about it amongst yourselves

All right, so we'll just go in some time but again here fresh air has been proven to help the brain

So I heard somebody say brain breaks

So a lot of us do like to go through it all type of stuff and that's a brain break within the classroom

If used regularly scheduled time for breaks

This is important

Allowing the students have choice time during their break. So often times. We'll say, okay

I have a break you guys can have a break and you can do this over here and this over here and this over here

But because I want to do that if it's their break

They want to have the choice to do what they want to do on their break

So keeping them choice time and if you can't do it on the break giving them choice time within their day is as equally important

Like I said, they fight it roller blades they hang out and talk. So this was at

The primary school that I was in they're all in sports here. They all have their bikes and then there are sheds

Okay, what's the purpose

Right kids want to know a lot. Why am I learning this? Why am I doing this, right?

We all want to know why not just kid

But they want to know what is the purpose?

So the goal of make it real is to promote a sense of purpose in the classroom

they want to see how does their schoolwork connect to the real world and

I have to say just personally in my school

we

Concentrated on this in good General Studies departments this year and each teacher had to come up with at least one

There was tons of other things about how to make the learning you do. So

Second but what does that look like for you?

how do you make your learning real has it come alive in your questions that the children have an

Understanding of what they're doing actually applies

My fourth graders make a show about

Able to be in the content then they make a shoot for the school or so all the kids learn how to buy it

It's amazing. I can attest that it feels like

Okay, you know you can't give them the money they taught that to uni group

It's beautiful and that's exactly how to make it real

There's no other better example one thing would be

to take some of the learning home and see if the parents are interested in talking about it and that would obviously

Stimulate that hey, I learned something in my parents are interested in this absolutely teaching it over right that's really important. So

here of a few things

So this was a room in the kindergarten that they had set up for

Project-based learning and they were learning about space that Rockets and that engineer come in all the kids design their own rockets

And how does that look like? How does it work?

They shot them and then they create this room to look like a spacer right make it ice-cream shop. Very simple

You know

Participate in programs like this town. Did anyone here ever hear of Midtown? Right? So when chocolate kids is here, right?

It was amazing, but they're learning about economics in their in their math

And what better way to go do that is to go to this town where you can run your own business

That's what it's a bunch of businesses that are set out and all the kids have to run them

But they have to know what does it mean to be a student. What does it mean to be a CFO?

What kind of qualities do I need to have right that's completely real-world application and Finland model

They're in this town. It's called my city off of the American business always

Using real objects, you know, like in my book I'll show you that I have

Sticky notes all over because I look at it quite often

But even just using real needles, I mean if you're learning something you have to use the real objective of what you're doing. Otherwise it

Okay, and this is the last one?

Okay, the triple steep and we talked a little bit about that's right cooperation collaboration and confident but

How does that how does that bring joy like what wouldn't have to do with anything one of those days bring joy

But when you're in a cooperative

Calm environment and you have great work-life balance

What should I?

Bring to my friends because but my real-life

Friends, right like work-life balance is very hard and all of us like we don't know what that means

But they're they know what it means to live and when they go home

They're not planning because they're confident in their work and their mission and they know okay

I'm gonna go do this next I don't just sit there for hours and hours, you know

They have collaboration as a mindset

they know I'm going to go in I'm gonna work with my colleagues and I'm gonna collaborate with people from here and I'm going to

Collaborate people from there and we talked about this in the first slide. There's no competition and everyone's in it together and that creates a

cooperative calm

mindful environment, which ultimately leads to joy in my opinion and

You know

This was

Teachers hanging out with the lights off

Candles lit and the other side of the room was a massage chair. This was their faculty room, right?

They are mandated to take a break. So when the kids are on a break if they're not at a

Outside duty with them the teachers are taking a break

Right, they call collaborate over coffee and come together and schmooze then other laptops out

They don't have their workout, but I'm sitting at their computer

They're finding the time for joy, and some of the other things is when you're on vacation

baking

Make time for yourself during the day, right? So when the kids are on the right, you're on the break do something you love

be confident within your profession and

collaborate with your colleagues

So those were the new things that I found to be joyous?

And that is the end of my slide show. I

Really fast I

Have surprises for you

Okay, how many meals a day are offered to the preschool kids if they're there from 6 o'clock in the morning until 6 coffee night?

Great

All right, all right Yoda

Okay, who is top east Albert

Okay, true or false teachers have autonomy over their work

through

Okay. There you go. You're welcome. Okay. Oh, I don't know if I said this but I think we could fill the blanket

Education is a basic

blank, right

What's the ratio of great to lesson times

Yes

There you go

All right, why is homework limited

Okay, what age do kids graduate out of the early childhood program

That's debatable, but who said six seven, right? Okay, here you go

You're welcome

What does it mean to make it real?

Dad one word, what's the number one key to being successful? It's that trust first

Okay, thank you all so much for coming

But we don't have time but I made you a successful checklist

So you can fill in here, you know positive classroom break time. Make it real and then

You know during your school day keep it with you and check it off

So, you know that you you know, you learn something you work through it and we're all here to you know

Take what we've learned and then to apply it so feel free to to take one if you'd like

Okay