Domain 3 - Relational Leadership | Standard 5 - Metacognitive Capacity
Video 1Influential author and speaker Dr Brené Brown tackles the myth that vulnerability is a weakness. Instead, she argues, it is the clearest path to courage and meaningful connection, and has the power to transform the way we engage and educate. Video 2This webinar, presented by President Jack MacNeill and Wade Repta, occupational therapist for humanworks focuses on how principals and vice-principals can pay closer attention to their personal wellbeing and offer some helpful suggestions for attempting to make personal wellbeing a higher priority...
Breathing and Stretching with Ms Sarah
When you engage your breath, you are activating the nervous and cardiovascular systems. With each inhale and exhale, your breath helps regulate, recover, and restore your body. The science behind deep breathing is a great reminder of how our bodies have a natural ability to be resilient...
Introduction to the Compassionate Systems Framework in Schools
Author's Introduction Abdul Latif Jameel World Education LabDescriptionIn education, where interest in social and emotional learning (SEL), mindfulness, and systems thinking is growing, we find both an opportunity and a need to develop models of thinking and teaching that prepare students to better understand and respond to the systems to which these issues belong. We draw from established SEL models, together with developments in the emerging field of complexity science and the study of systems, to establish a framework—what we call a “compassionate systems” framework—for building a cognitive and affective foundation for global citizenship. This framework conceptualizes compassion as an essentially systemic property of mind: to cultivate compassion is to be able to appreciate the systemic forces that influence people’s feelings, thoughts and actions...
