Fidelity
This is the tool to ensure the classroom matches Creative Curriculum.
What is the Fidelity Tool?
This helps us understand the three brain-body states that drive behavior in adults and children.
What is the Brain State Model?
This breathing technique requires the participant to: smile, take a deep breath, and relax
What is the S.T.A.R?
This is the self-regulation structure that combines the Conscious Discipline skill of composure and our power of perception. (Typically includes, soft chairs, rugs, and breathing strategies)
What is the safe place?
This is the title of the teachers' supervisor.
What is Education Coordinator?
This indicator makes sure the classroom is organized to support learning and encourage children to work independently and with peers in self-selected activities.
What is the Physical Environment?
This state asks, "Am I safe?" and requires a felt sense of safety.
What is the Survival State?
This breathing technique requires the participant to raise their arms up, interlace their fingers, and rest them on top of their head. Then, inhale several breaths of air, moving their hands upward with each puff of air and then slowly release the air out.
What is Ballooning?
These provide children the opportunity to be significant contributors to others through meaningful classroom responsibilities.
What are classroom jobs?
This band sings Bye, Bye, Bye.
Who is N'SYNC?
These are the four overall fidelity score names.
What are Strong, Moderate, Weak, and None?
This state asks, "Am I Loved?" and requires connection.
What is the Emotional State?
The draining breathing technique requires the participant to extend both arms out in front of their bodies with their fists tightly balled up. Then, they are instructed to inhale, hold their breath, and tighten these.
What is muscles?
This celebrates life events, individual achievements and contributions to the School Family.
What is the Celebration Center?
This famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci does not have eyebrows.
What is the Mona Lisa?
This person is observed and assists to ensure Fidelity is met when interacting in positive ways to support development and learning.
Who is the Teaching Assistant?
This state asks, "What can I learn from this?" and represents an optimal state for higher-order skills like creativity, learning, and problem-solving.
What is the Executive State?
This breathing technique stimulates both hemispheres of the brain, the motor coordination system, and the vestibular system.
What is the Pretzel?
This structure is designed to help students get to know one another and to generate pictures of loved ones in order to link the home family and the school family.
What is Friends and Family board?
Some cats are actually allergic to these.
What are humans?
The following are examples of these:
Block, Dramatic Play, Toys and Games, Library, Discovery, Sand and Water, Music and Movement, Technology, Outdoors.
What are interest areas?
This part of the brain is used when adults/children are in their executive state.
What is the pre-frontal lobe?
The breathing exercises are designed to turn THIS off in the body and integrate the hemispheres of the brain.
What is stress response?
This is a container that holds the individual class members' commitment to safety and helpfulness.
What is the Safekeeper Box?
This is Scotland's national animal.
What is the unicorn?