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Listening to Understand:
How often are we really listening?


LU.1 Active Listening:

Students are able to demonstrate various habits (tracking, nodding, questioning, etc.) to show others that they are listening.
Active Listening
Since we cannot always know whether people are truly listening or taking us seriously, Active Listening is a technique we could use to show others that we are paying attention to them without them having to ask or wonder.
  • Teaching Guide 
  • Active Listening presentation
  • Appropriate Sharing presentation
  • Active Listening Cheatsheet

LU.2 Creating a Safe Space for Sharing:

Students are able to demonstrate the use of various tools to create a  non-judgmental and supportive space for others to share what they want to share.
Culture-Building Circles Guidelines
Culture-building Circles are a simple, but powerful, way to build positive culture by creating opportunities for students to learn more about each other and make new connections.
  • Teaching Guide 
  • Culture-Building Circles Guidelines
Family Group Agreement Setting
Students are placed in Family Groups that will collaborate the whole year. They will use this lesson to set communication  expectations and working norms.
  • Teaching Guide 
  • Creating Family Groups FAQ
  • Family Group Agreement Setting presentation
  • ​​Family Group Agreements worksheet
Setting Class Agreements
Before we can get started with our classrooms to dive into meaningful topics and conversation, we need to make sure that we have a set of classroom agreements that everybody is willing to uphold.  This presentation will help you get those set up.
  • Setting Class Agreements presentation
Intro to Community Circles
This series of sessions teaches students the expectations for a class Community Circle for community-building.  
  • ​​Intro to Community Circles presentation
Community Circles - Connecting
Building off the foundational Community Circle rules, this lesson adds ways for students to appropriate connect with each other during Circles.
  • ​Community Circles - Connecting presentation

LU.3 Deep Listening:

Students are able to demonstrate the use of empathy interviewing tools to help others share what they need to share in order to to find root causes of personal problems.
Intro to Deep Listening
"Deep Listening," is a useful way to really hear and understand a situation to help come up with a solution.
  • Teaching Guide 
  • "Intro to Deep Listening" presentation
  • "Deep Listening" worksheet​​
Deep Listening: Dilemma Consultancy
A "Dilemma Consultancy" is a way to help you practice Deep Listening while within a group - making the whole group better able to listen, understand a situation, and come up with meaningful solutions.
  • Teaching Guide 
  • "Deep Listening: Dilemma Consultancy" presentation
  • "Deep Listening: Dilemma Consultancy" worksheet

Determining Needs
For students to learn how to use their Deep Listening skills to help resolve conflicts, they need to practice determining the needs of the people involved in the conflict to later help them communicate effectively with each other.  
  • Teaching Guide 
  • "Determining Needs" presentation
  • "Determining Needs" worksheet​
Conflict Mediation
Students practice conflict mediation through role plays focusing on their Deep Listening strategies.
  • Teaching Guide 
  • "Conflict Mediation" presentation
  • "Conflict Mediation" Case Studies
  • "Conflict Mediation Case Studies Notes" worksheet


Assessments

Some examples of assessments for Speak to be Heard.
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