10 DAY CHALLENGE

TRANSFORM

DAY 1: ABOUT FACE

• Smile more!
• Keep a pleasant, encouraging face
• Even if the going gets rough

DAY 2: HAVE FUN

• Use humor in your teaching
• Use movement in your lessons
• Have fun teaching!

DAY 3: COMPLIMEMT

• Compliment specifically and sincerely
• Give at least 3 throughout the day
• Offer to students who challenge your positivity
• Bonus: give to 3+ colleagues too

DAY 4: DO THE DO'S

• Focus on the right instead of the wrong
• Replace the "don't" statements
• Use "do" statements instead
• Bonus: use coupling statements
• Example: you're standing, please sit down

DAY 5: PHONE HOME

• Make three parent calls
• Praise and encourage
• Develop partnership

DAY 6: GIVE GRACE

• Be a model of grace to your students
• Offer grace to someone who has made a mistake
• Give grace even if they don't deserve it at the time
• Bonus: notice when others give YOU grace

DAY 7: TEACH THE SKILL

• Start the day with a BBR skill lesson
• Pick a skill your class needs to improve
• (Use your ring of BBR cards)
• Recite the steps of the skill
• Revisit the skill throughout the day

DAY 8: DIFFUSE

• Keep an eye out for potential emotional eruptions
• Deescalate the situation before it's a problem
• Remain calm and positive
• Allow struggling students to "save face"
• Privately re-teach and redirect

DAY 9: OFFER CHOICES

• Empower students by offering choices
• Choices invite ownership and buy-in
• Choices can deescalate ange
• Make sure the choices given are acceptable
• (All choices should be a "win" for the teacher)

DAY 10: TRANSITION

• Smooth transitions feed your educational climate
• Teach a specific transition strategy
• Strategies: verbal cue, music, timer, incentive, etc
• Revisit and be clear of expectations for transitions
• Practice. Praise.

CONTINUE

"Treat people as if they ARE what they OUGHT to be and you help them BECOME what they are capable of becoming."
- Goethe