KRISTINE COONEY AND susan sobehrad, educational consultantS
Beautiful work--what teachers long for their students to produce. However, beautiful work requires growing completely different classroom culture, one where mistakes are good and failures are opportunities for growth.
Kaizen--literally change for the good--occurs when students constantly evaluate their work with the mindset that there is always room for improvement. Kaizen enables students to develop critical habits of mind such as grit, perseverance, and resilience.
Beautiful work--what teachers long for their students to produce. However, beautiful work requires growing completely different classroom culture, one where mistakes are good and failures are opportunities for growth.
Kaizen--literally change for the good--occurs when students constantly evaluate their work with the mindset that there is always room for improvement. Kaizen enables students to develop critical habits of mind such as grit, perseverance, and resilience.
In this one-day workshop, participants explore the kaizen culture and walk away with strategies for building a classroom culture where kaizen is the norm and beautiful work is the end result.