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Faculty, Staff & Administrators of the Birdville Independent School District in North Richland Hills, Texas.
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The english classes look at ARCHETYPES. This might be a very productive inroad.
Tuesday September 22nd is our 2nd Specialists training. We are focusing on developing personally and professionally as educators. We will be at Richland High School's 50's Faculty Lounge. It's a great place to do some learning. Come join us!
It sounds like you and your school are onto some great things!
I completely agree with the combination of Strengths and experiential learning. We are in our 4th year of working with Strengths and student leadership and a huge part of our work is d...
Here's a great Strengths Story: This year our entire hs staff is focusing on Strengths, hope, and well being! We are led by our principal Carla Rix and she has given us the green light to go full speed. No holds barred!
We started by having Sherr...
I hope everyone has had a great beginning of the school year. I would love to hear if you have any great "strengths stories" so far. At North Ridge, our teachers were so eager to get started that the 6th grade social studies teachers gave up the s...
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- AVID Teacher at Richland High School
- What are your Clifton StrengthsFinder Talent Themes/Strengths?
- Communication, Relator, Arranger, Context, Restorative
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- At 1:07pm on September 28, 2009,
Sherry R. Boyd said…
- Hi Fursey,
I signed up on this site and then I was overtaken with school work.
I started Strengths with a Teaching Team here at North Lake College. It has since been taken over by Organization and Development. I am currently attempting to write an in-house grand to address retention for students in our Early Alert Program. This is for students who are on the first level of academic probation.
I would have loved to get my PhD in Strengths, but I did not want to start over.
- At 2:21pm on May 28, 2009,
Kerrie L. Bourland said… - You mean the SF meetings we will have during the next year or on-line? Sorry, it is late in the afternoon and my brain is in neutral. Just making sure. And if there is a "group" on line, I guess I missed that part of your presentation. Can I get a tutorial? :)
- At 8:35am on May 28, 2009,
Kerrie L. Bourland said…
- Thanks! And you are right, my wheels are already turning.
- At 6:25pm on May 19, 2009,
Christy Khan said… - Fursey,
I love how your district is incorporating strengths engagement specialists. How exciting! I can't wait to see how it unfolds in your schools.
Christy
- At 8:31am on May 7, 2009,
Priscilla Hamilton said…
- Thank you, good to be here. I thought I had joined the BISD group as well. Let me know if not and if that is the case, how do I go about joining?
- At 8:33am on May 5, 2009,
susan nall said…
- Hey Fursey!
Sorry it's taken me this long to respond, but I was overwhelmed with testing last week and couldn't focus long enough to put two sentences together to answer your questions. Things are a bit more clear now, so here goes:
Yes, we are still continuing to learn and understand our staff's strengths. In fact, Mrs. Solley and I are currently having end of the year conferences with everyone on our staff. During these conferences, we are using the questions you provided us for summatives. The questions seem to be very thought provoking and have given me a further insight into the person responding. We end the conferences with a strengths quote that they really seem to respond to well. I think these conferences are a step in the right direction for our growth in strengths knowledge and understanding, as well as a great way to end the year on a positive note!
Thanks for checking on us, and I look forward to hearing from you soon!
- At 9:15am on April 13, 2009,
Stacy A. Bartlett said… - Hello Fursey,
I think that your idea is great! However, most admission officers probably wouldn't know anything about it unless they are familiar with strengths. I would definitely encourage your students to put their strengths on their applications if they are applying to a strengths-based school (like Azusa Pacific in California).
We use strengths at our college, Atlanta Christian College, and we would love to see that information on their applications!
Does any of this information help?
Thanks,
Stacy
- At 8:50am on April 13, 2009,
Dawn Remmers said… - Hello Fursey,
With the seminars for our most at-risk populations, we use the SQ along with the LASSI. SQ is the good news and LASSI most often serves as the bad news. We then try to look at how we can use our strengths to improve the areas of LASSI that serve as trouble spots.
With our learning communities, we explore strengths throughout the semester...how they make us who we are...how we can apply them to help us academically and socially...and some groups choose to look at their career choices in terms of their strengths.
I hope that help!
- At 7:56pm on April 12, 2009,
Curt Liesveld said… - Fursey, It was so nice of you to mention the Theme Insight Cards. They were so much fun to make. I spend much of my time either coaching people around their strengths or teaching people how to coach others using a strengths-based approach, As a result, I am always making new discoveries about people and the amazing instrument Don Clifton created. I am in the process of creasting another deck of cards which I hope will be helpful for people as well. Best wishes. Curt Liesveld
- At 11:16am on April 12, 2009,
Hope Stockton said… - The presentations are 3-5 minutes long and the students are asked to give a creative representation to the rest of the class describing their strengths and how they work together for the individual. We have had some wonderful presentations. Some of the greats: A student showed how learning how to play the guitar related to his talent themes, this year we had a rap that had the whole group on their feet, one Japanese student described the code of the sumurai and his talent themes and then had the entire group make origami samurai hats with newsprint. They are all good in their own way. It not only helps in gaining self-awareness but also works on their presentation skills in a non-threatening way. It has led to some fantastic debrief discussion around teamwork and emotional intelligence topics too. Hope this is helpful.
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