IGNITE: Never Stop Learning

Never stop learning because life never stops teaching.- Unknown

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Best Practice #17: Stimulate Cooperation Among Students

Modern society places a lot of emphasis on competition. While competition with the self can lead to improved performance as students strive to do their best, competition against others can result in negative perceptions of the self, especially if it isolates a person. With cooperation, everyone can experience the success of the group and no one is viewed as the “winner” or the "loser."

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IGNITE: Leaving a Legacy

 

“Legacy is not leaving something "for" people.

It is about leaving something "in" people.”

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Best Practice #15: Give Recognition

When students do something worthy of recognition, leaders need to give positive feedback to the student. Such recognition makes the student feel alive, important, and significant.

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Challenge #40 - 2022 WFLDP Campaign

Challenge #40: Effective leaders/teachers give recognition.

• Give each of your students/team members positive reinforcement.
• Set up a method of recognizing your people doing "good"/well in the field and in the classroom.

IGNITE: Learning Lessons

 

Lessons in life will be repeated until they are learned. - Frank Sonnenberg, author

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Best Practice #15: Positive Reinforcement

When learners perform or behave as we expect or desire, the leader should provide positive reinforcement such as incentives or appreciative praise. This makes learners more interested in doing the right thing. In essence, we need to “catch” adult learners “being good.”

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The Art of a Positivity

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If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problem and find you are ready for greater challenges. – Pat Riley

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. – Wade Boggs

IGNITE: Exercising the Mind

 

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison, English essayist

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Best Practice #14: Adaptive Execution

 

Effective leaders are adaptive in their ability to adjust instruction to best support the learners. If learners are approaching satiation on a topic, the leader adapts the plan to transition to a new topic while being sure to follow-up on the part missed later in the lesson. Adaptive execution is not about changing the curriculum for the needs of the learner, it is about changing the instruction to meet the needs of the learner. Such changes are departures from the norm and may take the form of additional questions to the learners, analogies, examples, in the moment sequencing changes, etc.

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