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2019 Texas Symposium on DeafBlindness: Resonance February 21-23, 2019 Happiness and My Search for the Essence of Educational Success Friday, Plenary Session 11:15-12:00 PM Presented by Maurice Belote, Director, California DeafBlind Services [email protected] Developed for Texas DeafBlind Outreach Program Texas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired

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2019 Texas Symposium on DeafBlindness-Happiness & My Search for the Essence of Educational Success-Belote, M. 1

Happiness and My Search for the Essence of Educational Success Maurice Belote, Director of California DeafBlind Services

Slide 1: Texas Symposium on Deafblindness Maurice Belote, California Deafblind Services Project Coordinator [email protected] • cadbs.org

Figure 1 California Deafblind Services logo

Figure 2 IDEAs that Work logo.

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Slide2: The depth of my profundity is a function of an abundance of vacuity.

–Calvin Ahlgren, Poet

Slide 3:

Figure 3 Photo of a page from the script of the play “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder.

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Slide 4: The State of the Human Soul

Slide 5: There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in. –Archbishop Desmond Tutu South African Anglican Cleric

Slide 6:

Figure 4 Photo of Dr. Jan van Dijk smiling.

Slide7: When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. –Abraham Heschel, Rabbi & Philosopher

Slide 8: Why Teachers Should Stop Trying to Hide Their Emotions in School

Slide 9: 2018 Happiest U.S.States (WalletHub)

1. Hawaii 2. Utah 3. Minnesota 4. North Dakota 5. California (?!?)

Factors considered:

• emotional & physical well-being

• work environment

• community & environment


Slide 10:

Figure 5 Photo of a sandy beach in Hawaii with palm trees and flowers in the foreground.

Slide 11:

Figure 6 Photo of a rock formation in Utah called the Wave, with orange and brown undulating strata.

Slide 13:

Figure 7 Photo of a person ice fishing on a frozen lake in Minnesota. The person is sitting on a folding chair and is surrounded by fishing paraphernalia.

Slide 14:

Figure 8 Photo of hundreds of people ice fishing on frozen Gull Lake in Minnesota.


Slide 15: Happiest Countries in the World (2018 World Happiness Report, United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network) 1. Finland 2. Norway 3. Denmark 4. Iceland 5. Switzerland

Slide 16:

Figure 9 Photo of a turtle sculpture built from 2000 car wheels welded together. This North Dakota landmark is about 18 high and 40 feet long.

Slide 17:

Figure 10 Photo of a vandalized sidewalk star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California.

Slide 18:

Figure 11 United Nations March 20 International Day of Happiness logo.


Slide 19: Agency MacGuffin Thought Leader

Slide 20:

Figure 12 Photo of four stocking feet in front of a stone fireplace with a roaring fire.

Slide 20:

Figure 13 Image of a pinkish-orange fish swimming among similarly colored coral, designating Living Coral as the Pantone 2019 Color of the Year.

Slide 21:

Figure 14 Image of various household objects that are manufactured using the Pantone color called Living Coral.


Slide 22:

Figure 15 Photo of a dresser drawer filled with t-shirts that are each carefully rolled and arranged by color.

Slide 23:

Figure 16 Facebook logo inside the international prohibition symbol, which is a red circle with a red slash across the center of the circle.

Slide 24:

Figure 17 Photo of the back of a car with a license plate frame that reads “BE HAPPY” and a bumper sticker that reads “Welcome to San Francisco, Now go home.”

Slide 25: Negativity Bias

Slide 26: We’ve got a brain that is Velcro for the bad but Teflon for the good. –Rick Hanson, Ph.D., Psychologist


Slide 27: Pleasure is the mental state of ‘This feels good. I want more; Happiness is the state of ‘This feels good. I don’t need any more.’ Pleasure is short lived; happiness is long-lived. Pleasure is felt in the body; happiness is above the neck. Pleasure can be achieved with substances. Happiness cannot. –Robert Lustig, M.D., Pediatrician & Author

Slide 28: Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. –W. Somerset Maugham, British Author

Slide 29: The 8 Domains of Viable IDEA Outcomes

• Presence and participation

• Accommodation and adaptation

• Physical health

• Social/emotional adjustment

• Independence & responsibility

• Contribution & citizenship

• Satisfaction

• Academic & functional literacy - National Center on Educational Outcomes

Slide 30: Quality of Life Domains

• Emotional Well-Being: safety, stable & predictable environments

• Interpersonal Relations: affiliations, affection, intimacy, friendships, interactions

• Material Well-Being: ownership, possessions, employment - The Special Interest Research Group on Quality of Life


• Personal Development: education & habilitation, purposeful activities, assistive technology

• Physical Well-Being: health care, mobility, wellness, nutrition

• Self-Determination: choices, personal control, decisions, personal goals - The Special Interest Research Group on Quality of Life



• Social Inclusion: natural supports, integrated environments, participation

• Rights: privacy, ownership, due process, barrier-free environments - The Special Interest Research Group on Quality of Life

Slide 33: Total Happiness = T x [G x (PEF x PEI + SPF x SPI) – NEF x NEI]

Slide 34:

Figure 18 Image of the acronym P-E-R-M-A with each letter labeled as follows: P – Positive Emotions; E – Engagement; R – Positive Relationships; M – Meaning; A – Accomplishment.

Slide 35: Seligman’s P-E-R-M-A Model

P = Positive Emotion E = Engagement R = Relationships M = Meaning A = Accomplishments

Slide 36: P = Positive Emotion E = Engagement R = Relationships M = Meaning A = Accomplishments


Slide 37: Positive Emotion Feeling good, optimism, pleasure & enjoyment Pride, Satisfaction, Hope, Confidence

Slide 38: True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future.

–Lucius Seneca, Roman Stoic

Slide 39: Harry Stack Sullivan, M.D. Psychiatrist & Personality Theorist The single most powerful human motive is the need to avoid anxiety.

Slide 40: It is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to ‘be happy.’ But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to be happy…It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

–Viktor Frankl, Austrian Neurologist & Psychiatrist

Slide 41:

Figure 19 Photo of a cactus with two eyes and a smiling mouth cut out of one of the cactus paddles, surrounded by rocks and succulent plants.

Slide 42:

Figure 20 Image from the music video for Pharrell Williams song “Happy.” Pharrell Williams is dancing in front of a church choir dressed in blue robes and choir members are raising their arms in the air.


Slide 43:

Figure 21 Headline from the New York Times newspaper that reads, “Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person.”

Slide 44: “When elders described their lives, they focused not on their declining abilities but on things that they could still do and that they found rewarding.”

(John Leland, New York Times)

Slide 45: “If they were not always gleeful, they were resilient and not paralyzed by the challenges that came their way. All had known loss and survived. None went to a job he did not like, coveted stuff she could not afford, brooded over a slight on the subway or lost sleep over events in the distant future.” (John Leland, New York Times)


Slide 47: Engagement Fulfilling work & interesting hobbies Losing yourself in an activity just for the joy of doing it, regardless of the end result.


Slide 48: I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of colored paper, or plant straw trees in bead flowerpots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.

–Anne Sullivan Macy


Slide 50:

Figure 22 Photo of a dish filled with lime gelatin mixed with pineapple chunks.

Slide 51: Just being there—showing up regularly—is vitally important in building the basis for friendships. People who come and go have great difficulty in being seen as real members of a classroom or community. They are perceived differently and, although there may be no harmful intent, group members often interpret a fluctuating presence as a message that this person belongs elsewhere and does not require their personal investment...Presence is a powerful statement of belonging...

–Pat Amos, Family Advocate



Slide 53: Empathy: The ability to recognize and share the feelings of another person, or the capacity or ability to imagine yourself in the situation of another person.


Slide 55: The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic—in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea—known to medical science is work.

–Thomas Szasz, M.D., Psychiatrist

Slide 56:

Figure 23 Image of the cover of “HomeTalk: A Family Assessment of Children who are Deafblind.”

Slide 57: • Some things I think my child would enjoy doing with other children the same age would

be…

• A book or story that my child would want to read or listen to over and over again would be…

• My child gets very excited when…


Slide 58:

Figure 24 Image of the cover of “The INSITE Developmental Checklist.”

Slide 59: • Loves action-filled stories and responds with total body language

• Understands time concepts such as today, tomorrow, morning, afternoon, etc.

• Verbalizes feelings

• Has pride in achievement

Slide 60:

Figure 25 Image of the cover of “Classroom Observation Instrument for Educational Environments Serving Students with Deaf-Blindness” by Ella L. Taylor, Kathleen Stremel, and Nancy Steele.

Slide 61: • The student spends most of his/her time engaged in active learning activities, with "down-

time" individualized to the student.

• All staff talk with students in an age-appropriate and respectful manner. Student-first terminology is used. Issues discussed in the student’s presence reflect student involvement.

• The communication system provides the student with frequent opportunities to receive varied functions of communication (i.e., not just directives) on an ongoing basis.


Slide 62:

Figure 26 Image of the cover of “IEP Quality Indicators for Students Deafblindness” developed by Texas Deafblind Outreach.

Slide 63: • The IEP includes a method to orient the student to new individuals.

• The IEP addresses a way to locate and identify people in the environment.

• The IEP acknowledges the student’s need to bond and build trust in order to learn…

Slide 64:

Figure 27 Image of the cover of “School Inventory of Problem Solving Skills for children with multiple disabilities.”

Slide 65: • Activate a favorite toy

• Open a container to get a preferred object

• Construct or assemble objects

Slide 66: We asked people to finish this statement: “I think a wonderful life—for any person—would include...”


Slide 67:

Figure 28 Image of a yellow happy-face ball with the words “Thank You!!!” to its right.

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Figure 29 TSBVI logo.

Figure 30 IDEAs that Work logo.

This project is supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). Opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily

represent the position of the U.S. Department of Education.

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