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Capstone Project. Peggy McNash Woodward Academy May 2013. Brain Cohort of E.E. Ford at Center For Teaching Westminster Schools, Atlanta. Question? . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Capstone ProjectPeggy McNash
Woodward Academy May
2013
Brain Cohort of E.E. Ford at Center For Teaching Westminster Schools, Atlanta
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Question? Will guided breathing and instruction
on the fixed-growth mindset improve the time-on-task rates and the completion rates for students in Writers Workshop CP class?
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http://www.stopandbreathe.org/images/StopandBreatheLogo.jpg
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Guided Breathing, Focused Attention
Thanks to Nneka Robinson who taped the class.
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Dweck's Fixed-Growth Mindset
The key, Dweck found, isn’t ability; it’s whether you look at ability as something
inherent that needs to be demonstrated or as something that can be developed.
Adapted from
http://michaelgr.co
m/2007/04/15/fixe
d-mindset-vs-
growth-mindset-
which-one-are-
you/.
http://www.thoughtfullearning.com/sites/default/files/blogpost/images/mindset.jpg
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Data
Quantitative: • Improvement SAT prompts• Fewer off-task behaviors; more on-
task behaviors • Improved completion rates
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Data
Qualitative:• Observer--Lynn Robinson--felt
students were more focused post-intervention, even more so than 7 percent decrease in off-task behavior indicated.
• Student perception of completion rates
• Student perception of efficacy of guided breathing
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Qualitative Data (self-reported):
8% more 7% fewer 1% fewer
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Qualitative Data (self-reported):
• 9 of 17 reported breathing exercises helped them focus and improve their time on task and completion rates.
• 8 of 17 reported breathing exercises did not improve their focus, their time on task, or their completion rates.
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Two Student Comments:"I believe the breathing does help. It
helps to cool me down and get my mind focused. An area I have used breathing is during track meets before I am about to run to get my mind focused on the race." File link
"I think the breathing just distracted me. For some people it could help them a great deal to recognize that it's time to work and focus, but for me it just kind of distracts me." Wiki Link
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Opportunities to Share!• Mentor-Intern January 2013
Woodward Academy, College Park, Georgia(on mini project)
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Next Presentations!• Delta Kappa Gamma SE Regional
Conference, July 2013 Orlando, "Using What Sisters Know about the Brain to Support Early Educators and Grow Chapters."
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• GISA Conference: The Transformative Power of Education, November 2013, Woodward Academy, College Park.Co-presenter with two other WA Brain Cohort Members from 2011 and 2012 groups.
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Happy Learning, Period E!