Taking time for mindful reflection can help us better understand the implicit biases and assumptions in our own thinking processes, opening us up to new ways of seeing the challenges we and our students face in our learning communities. Use this activity with pre- and in-service teachers to engage in mindful reflection on our students’ learning.
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Mindful reflection process for developing culturally responsive practices
Making connections:
Principled Innovation asks us to work with others and recognize the limits of our own knowledge so that we can better understand and tackle the complex issues our communities face.
Taking multiple perspectives
Video
3 minutes
By: Cultivating Leadership
Identifying values through storytelling
Tool
30 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
Peter Senge: introduction to systems thinking
Video
2 minutes
By: MIT, Peter Senge
Why team reflexivity works
Article
20 minutes
By: Michaéla Schippers
What?/so what?/now what?
Tool
40 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)