Perspiration
I just returned from speaking at the Lutheran Educators Conference in San Diego, a gathering of teachers from California, Nevada, Hawaii, and Arizona. My first talk - Finding the Key, Unlocking the Power of Awareness - was a workshop geared around providing tools to develop different types of student awareness through interoception, exteroception, proprioception, internal self-awarness, and external self-awareness. At a time when students are less aware than ever, training awareness is shown to improve grades, strengthen relationships, improve job prospects, build confidence, enhance creativity, and support integrity.
My second talk - The Performance Blueprint, Because SEL is not Enough - was a call to action to move beyond educational fads, trends, and neuromyths and into practices that are supported by research. Using high performance individuals and organizations such as the military, professional sport, Cirque du Soleil, and surgeons as exemplars, I shared a model that answered the core question, "What if we developed kids as high performers instead of students?"
Through the development of Performance Assets, Success Behaviors, and Learning Strategies, we can help students build the capacity to perform in all domains of performance, not just the classroom.