Feedback

=Feedback from the King Community=


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** What are the major takeaways from the PG&D Day? **

 * Teacher emotions have no room in the classroom.
 * Logic should dictate responses and no emotion.
 * Events + Response = Output
 * Empathy vs. Sympathy
 * Remember to be an active listener & ask the right questions
 * Teachers need to listen to the stories and understand that there are imprints you may not know about.
 * Perception is everything.
 * Behind each person is a story consisting of many imprints from life experiences. This plays a role in who we are an how we view and interact with one another.
 * Children need to be encouraged to be more empathetic toward one another which is modeled and build be the school community.
 * It is our jobs to create a safe learning environment so that students can thrive and learn skills in order to build emotional intelligence as well as academic intelligence to be most successful adults.
 * Our own imprints impact our interactions with students.
 * Identify your own imprints so I can see where they appear in my teaching.
 * Think before you act.
 * Teachers should evaluate their own reactions.
 * Teacher make a difference just by modelling, so be sure to model the correct behavior.
 * Teacher can make a great difference even if the parents are not on board.
 * Liked the strategies to teach empathy to students.
 * Like the strategies to be empathetic towards students and to empower them.
 * Like the idea of consistent language, educating parents formally about teaching and modeling empathy at home.
 * Empathy is an essential skill that can be taught, but it takes a commitment from the entire school community to be successful. Parents, teachers, and administrators need to believe and support the concept.
 * Respond to bullying issues with positive social instruction, not anti-bullying programs.
 * Teach management and not coping.
 * Focusing lesson plans on empathy as the underlying principle can increase overall results.
 * Empathy can bring an institution strongly together.
 * Empathy can increase the quality of communication.
 * Empathy and communication are the keys to the health of a community.
 * At King, we are in a position to practice empathy because we value educational excellence as a part of both strengthening intellect and building character. We also value communication between and among students, teachers and administrators.
 * Teaching with empathy should be something we all strive for and be more mindful of. It's a concept that we all have to reflect on and revisit from time to time -- stop and look at ourselves from time to time, examine what we are saying and doing in the classroom and at home -- refresh our toolbox so to speak.
 * Empathy can be used to embrace the diversity of our students and faculty. Diversity does not only mean race or ethnicity but generational as well.
 * It is important to pay attention to our student's emotional health and well being.
 * Be more aware of empathy and how it affects my class, parents, teachers etc.
 * Use a story to bring the class together.
 * Teach empathy on a daily basis.
 * Teachers need to be prepared to control our own emotional responses, so that we can help students to control their reponses. Take stock of our emotional imprints.

** What other areas would you like to explore at a future PG&D Day? **

 * Teaching kids resilience
 * Useful technology in the classroom
 * How to help students be more adaptable
 * Homophobia
 * Book study clubs around the books offered.
 * Additional time to work as a faculty and to explore how we can make our community stronger and give opportunity for children to build empathy.
 * How to put into effect the things we learn at the PGD days.
 * Examples from the classrooms.
 * Teaching resilience.
 * Recognizing and having strategies to stop bullying
 * Cross divisional team building
 * How to best teach affluent children?
 * How to strengthen our community?
 * Mindful education
 * Executive functioning
 * Classroom management.
 * More work on empathy and civility.
 * The ramifications of empathy on "communication" and "flexibility" of thought.

** Please provide any other comments about the content, logistics, or format of the day **

 * I think the day went very well, and was nicely conducted. The speaker was very effective, and brought a lot of serenity into his discourse. Levine was a genuine man, a truly empathic man, which meant every word he said, and that to me was key to the efficiency of his workshop. Two thumbs up!!
 * In the morning breakout, the faciliators need to know when to stop certain participants from talking too much.
 * It was nice to get to know people from other divisions. This build bonds and commonalities among colleagues as well as an appreciation for differences. This is the first step in building a consistent and even stronger learning community for our students throughout the entire school.
 * Liked the way the day was broken up into short segments. Good pace.
 * I thought the morning session was extremely effective and powerful. I felt that the afternoon session was almost not necessary. At this time of the school year everyone is very busy and a little burned-out, and a half day session might be sufficient.
 * the lunch break was too long, would rather end earlier
 * The flow of the day was very good. Keep the same format for future presenters.
 * Always good to have the opportunity to meet cross-divisionally at some point during PGD days.
 * The format was very good, especially the breakout sessions, which brought the faculty closer together and gave a nice feeling of community. Again, centering on empathy improves dialogue, character, academic results, communication, and community.
 * It was a very interesting day and David was a fantastic speaker. It was also nice to be up and moving every hour or so.
 * I liked the format of the day. Being able to start a bit later than the usual school day was refreshing. The length of each session was appropriate. However, the afternoon break out was a bit too long.
 * I would love to have workshops that would offer an opportunity to have a more hands-on approach. I find it difficult to sit for such a long period of time.
 * the structure was ideal, but would have liked david to have interacted during the breakout sessions.
 * He attended both morning and afternoon sessions, but only listened.
 * It would have been very interesting for him to join us in discussion in a small group