Stance of Curiosity
Child Psychologists Joelle vanLent and Gillian Boudreau tackle topics related to schooling in our modern times including navigating impossible expectations and the power of curiosity in education, empowering educators to redefine success, overcoming fear and shame and their effects on school communities with open dialogue, and balancing high demands with compassion and understanding.
Stance of Curiosity
Our Go-To Strategies!
Gillian & Joelle share two of their most common suggestions when consulting with educators and clinicians working with kids. “Step over the behavior” helps us connect with the need and emotion driving negative behavior, shift engagement to be more positive for all, and protect us from taking on stress that is not ours to own. “Two by ten” is a strategy of spending two minutes per day for ten consecutive days sitting nearby and focusing on a student with whom you have a tricky connection. This can look like joining their action, asking connecting questions, and always looks like sitting next to and not in front of that person. In both of these recommendations, a key idea is to state your intention or rationale so that you can relieve the other person of having to decipher your goal and emotion.
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