For educators, this refers to our emotional investment, our nurturing and encouragement, and our willingness to engage, emphasize, and be there for students.
What is availability?
100
It's simply the student's effort to manage the intensity of his or her situation.
What is a tornado?
100
This enables us to stay in your upstairs brain, which helps you to connect with and respond to the needs of the students.
What is regulating my body?
100
The students you work with have learned to get others to do for them, instead of learning to do for themselves.
What is "to sew their pillow?"
100
Wears black and blue.
Who is Jonathan Ford?
200
Insisting that students meet certain standards for their leaving, behavior, and choices.
What is accountability?
200
The factor that causes a stress response.
What is a trigger?
200
This simple piece of advice for your decision-making process when in doubt, shut your mouth and take a deep breath.
This clarifies your core values, our unifying purpose - your true north and helps you to rededicate yourself to your work.
What is your mission statement?
300
Anticipating it and preparing a plan beforehand in as attempt to avoid a tornado.
What is a preventative strategy?
300
To increase your awareness of your own baseline energy and to identify the triggers that send you to your downstairs brain.
What are the 2 steps that equip students and adults to press the pause button?
300
One of the biggest steps missed in education - It's goal is to attempt to heal the rupture in the relationship and to begin identifying alternative ways of managing to avoid a similar disruption in the future.
What is repair?
300
This skinny @#$% manages the oxymoron, "quiet room", in stilettos.
Who is Faye Polillio?
400
To define your sense of self, think about which key aspects of yourself cannot, no matter what, be taken from you - what you can truly hold on to and rely on.
What are your cement shoes?
400
This ensures a stable, calm environment for yourself, for the other students watching this spectacle, and for the instigating student.
What is your ability to stay in your upstairs brain?
400
The way you typically feel and present yourself.
What is your individual baseline energy?
400
The three questions designated to help me stay focused on those I work with.
What is mu rule?
Who am I working for?
What is about to drive my behavior?
400
This principal travels with three body guards and can bench press their total weight.