EL Principles
This principle helps us to develop the muscle to be looking up and down, to ensure there’s a shared sense of what are we trying to do and why it matters.
What is Strengthening/Cultivating Line of Sight?
The creative team name of those who chose time travelers as their superpower.
What is Time Travelers?
This coach was a competitive figure skater and once a trapeze artist.
Who is Elaine?
This pair of tools are "bookends" to an important action.
What is BAR and AAR?
This participant will spend part of her summer caring for a lighthouse.
Who is Tanya Upthegrove Gregory?
This principle centers us on reaching beyond the usual perspectives and considers the conditions that allow those different perspectives to participate.
What is Inviting/Centering Diverse Voices to the Table?
This person took more than 24 hours to travel here. She crossed an ocean.
Who is Ashley Dresser?
These 2 coaches celebrated a birthday milestone this year (and only a couple of weeks apart - Feb 2 and Feb 18).
Who is Jim and Rex?
This powerful tool could track what everyone on your team is doing and learning over time.
What is learning log?
He is an avid Pokemon fan and even went to the Pokemon exhibit at the Fossil Museum on Wed.
Who is Ramy Abbady?
This principle helps us to weave learning activities so that it doesn't feel like one-offs.
What is Stewarding Learning Over Time?
This was the last challenger who tried to take down Marilyn Darling during a fierce game of rock, paper, scissors.
Who is Patricia Voltolini?
This coach has a hidden talent ... she can sing. She once sang at her friend's wedding.
Who is Veena?
This tool helps us think about a result we hope to accomplish and what we think it will take to get there.
What are action hypotheses?
This participant has interacted with Steve Jobs first hand. She collaborated with him at at computer lab.
Who is Kasi Allen?
This principle encourages us to find multiple and even competing solutions.
What is Maximizing Freedom to Experiment?
This guest has never shown up on any of our Zoom cohort calls but everyone is excited to see.
Who is Blue?
This coach received a NRA (National Rifle Association) patch so that she could spend time with boys.
Who is Brittney?
This tool is a forward thinking invitation for us to learn together on something that is important - now and over time.
What is a framing question?
Want to make a lot more friends? You may want to talk to this participant who would draw from her clinical experience to create a TED talk about the power of friendships.
Who is Jenna Matthews?
You can support this principle by modeling curiosity, listening to and asking questions in the spirit of growing understanding, and offering transparency.
What is Making Thinking Visible?
This participant is so excited about the World Cup that she hosted a viewing party.
Who is Aimee Fribourg?
This coach has broken so many bones in her body that her mother offered her money to get her to stop.
Who is Diana?
To maximize the use of this tool, look at your calendar for upcoming opportunities to test hypotheses that have surfaced from the insights.
What is EL table?
The number of EL participants who call the greater Chicago area home.
What is 4? (Anna Barnes, LeMinh, Chantell, and Elizabeth Oo)