Capturing Kids' Hearts is a program that teaches educators to build meaningful relationships with students through consistent caring, respect, and connection. The program trains teachers in relationship-building skills like active listening, understanding students' perspectives, and demonstrating care for students as individuals. When students feel respected and cared for by teachers, they become more engaged in school and better able to learn, leading to improved outcomes like attendance, behavior, test scores, and graduation rates.
Capturing Kids' Hearts is a program that teaches educators to build meaningful relationships with students through consistent caring, respect, and connection. The program trains teachers in relationship-building skills like active listening, understanding students' perspectives, and demonstrating care for students as individuals. When students feel respected and cared for by teachers, they become more engaged in school and better able to learn, leading to improved outcomes like attendance, behavior, test scores, and graduation rates.
Capturing Kids' Hearts is a program that teaches educators to build meaningful relationships with students through consistent caring, respect, and connection. The program trains teachers in relationship-building skills like active listening, understanding students' perspectives, and demonstrating care for students as individuals. When students feel respected and cared for by teachers, they become more engaged in school and better able to learn, leading to improved outcomes like attendance, behavior, test scores, and graduation rates.
Capturing Kids' Hearts is a program that teaches educators to build meaningful relationships with students through consistent caring, respect, and connection. The program trains teachers in relationship-building skills like active listening, understanding students' perspectives, and demonstrating care for students as individuals. When students feel respected and cared for by teachers, they become more engaged in school and better able to learn, leading to improved outcomes like attendance, behavior, test scores, and graduation rates.
What is it? ---Video--- This video is straight from the flippen group that shows how to create high-achieving centers of learning. The teachers and administrators learn and practice skills they will use and model in the classrooms, schools, and districts. Educators learn the process of connecting with kids by consistently treating each one as valuable. Educators learn the process that creates connectedness in the classroom. ---Medium Control--- ● Control of student behavior is a joint responsibility ○ Students initially given ownership in controlling their behavior ● Teacher focuses primarily on the collective needs of the whole group ● Rules and procedures developed together (teacher + students) ○ Social contract ○ Teacher role: reinforcer of rules, guide students’ behavior, assists students in acknowledging consequences of their actions ● Logical consequences, cooperative discipline, non coercive approaches, discipline with dignity ● Discipline is interactive; acknowledges students’ contributions ---Approach/Focus--- ● Create self-managing, high performing classrooms ● Building meaningful and through team-building. productive relationships with students and colleagues. Goal: “turn problem classrooms into problem solving centers of ● Create safe and effective learning” through relationship learning environment. building “The invisible Backpack” Building relationships > Fostering Connectedness ● Students carry with them unrealistic expectations, stressful home situations, ● “Tends to the hunger, abuse, and loneliness. These social/emotional needs of aspects negatively affect students students/educators” educational experiences ● Barriers that must be broken/addressed ● When you show students that to ensure productive learning you care and respect them as ● “Will you see me, will you know me, will individuals, they “buy in” you help me” ---Student/Teacher Relationships --- ● “Students connect positive impressions of school with positive images of teachers” (Yeager, 2004) ○ Empathize, actively listen, understand ○ Favorite teacher > teacher who invests ○ Emotional needs matter too ○ Developing rapport + building trust ○ Learn about your students ---Excel--- ---Outcomes--- ● A Scorecard for feedback ● You are able to get Confidential ● Web-based and confidential feedback ● You are able to track students’ behavior ● Allows people to provide qualitative and ● You are able to distribute scorecards quantitative feedback on behavior easily ● Takes less than 5 minutes to complete ● You are able to have students become ● The questions are chosen according to where aware of their behavior you work (values chosen...etc.) --- Practical Strategies--- ● Greet your students at the door everyday, listening and understanding to what they say. ● Begin class everyday with “Good things” (2 minutes asking students to share good things that happened since the last time they met.) ● Demonstrate SOLER listening skills: ○ S- Square up to the person you are listening to ○ O-Open posture ○ L-Lean in ○ E-Eye-contact ○ R-Relax and Respond ---Cont. Practical Strategies--- ● Learn about your student’s lives through ● Be fair and consistent in your treatment informal actions and asking questions. ● Be sensitive to student’s differences ● Use positive human relations skills when ● Promote personal discussions and working with your students interactions ● Provide students with opportunities for ● Utilize more positive statements instead real success and to see their improvements of negatives ● Model your expectations and good behavior ● Listen to your students ● Give high expectations and clear feedback ● Show your students that you care for and respect them ---Outcomes--- ● Strengthened student connectedness - healthy student/teacher relationships ● Higher Student Attendance - students want to be there! ● Consistent rules = Decrease in Discipline Referrals ○ When students feel respected, they respect others. ● Increase in Graduation Rates ● Improved test scores ● High Teacher Retention -Less conflict ● foster Student Academic Achievement/ Performance ○ Ultimate goal! ---Activity--- ---References--- Burden, P. (2010/2013). Classroom management: Creating a successful K-12 learning community (6th Edition,Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Flippen Group. (n.d.). Capturing Kids' Hearts. Retrieved from https://flippengroup.com/education-solutions/capturing-kids-hearts/ Flippen Group. (n.d.). Solutions for Educators: Capturing Kids' Hearts 1. Retrieved from https://flippengroup.com/education/capturing-kids-hearts-1/ Yeager, Walter Lee, Jr. (2006). The effect of the Capturing Kids' Hearts staff development program in fostering positive teacher-student relationships at Jane Long Middle School in Bryan ISD. Doctoral dissertation, Texas A&M University. Texas A&M University. Available electronically from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/403. 1.