• • How to build meaningful, productive relationships with every student and every colleague.
  • How to use the Capturing Kids’ Hearts EXCEL Teaching Model to create a safe, effective environment for learning.
  • How to develop self-managing, high-performing classrooms using team-building skills and a Social Contract.
  • High payoff techniques for dealing with conflict, negative behavior, and disrespect issues.
  • Capturing Kids’ Hearts is the beginning of a transformational, multi-year process for teachers and administrators at the campus or district level.

 

Educators learn to use the EXCEL teaching model with their students or staff.

 

EXCEL means:

• • Engage: Students are greeted at the door with a handshake, eye contact, and a sincere welcome.
  • X-plore: Teachers listen and attend to the personal, emotional, and academic needs of our students.
  • Communicate: Teachers communicate care as well as content.
  • Empower: Teachers empower students to gain the ability to "use and do" the things they have been taught.
  • Launch: Deals with how we "end and send" our students into the world. The purpose is to start our students on a course of action by ending our classes on a powerful note.

 

Capturing Kids’ Hearts promotes relevance, rigor and relationships. By teaching students respect and responsibility the process supports diversity, character education, bully prevention, service-learning and safe school initiatives. The entire process teaches employability skills and promoters career preparation. In the end, Capturing Kids’ Hearts provides educators with the tools to leave a legacy of impacted lives.

 

Behave In – Behave Out is a process designed to help students manage and accept responsibility for their own attitudes and behavior. The model uses four (4) basic questions. The system builds self managing classrooms.

 

1.What are you doing?

2.What are you supposed to be doing?

3.Are you doing it? 

4.What are you going to do about it?