UnSelfie Book Study

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Overview

Unselfie is a book that takes its readers on a journey into understanding the increasingly egocentric and narcissistic tendencies of the kids we teach. It offers concrete and age-appropriate strategies to teach empathy, and to use that empathy to help students succeed both alone, and as a group. What makes Unselfie unique is that while it applies heavily to education, there are concrete recommendations for parents, coaches, teachers, and anyone else who works with children.

Each meeting we will discuss the ideas shared in UnSelfie in depth, using our own knowledge and experience working with students to ground the ideas from the book into our own practice. Each session will end with workshopped time to create several 10-15 minute mini-lessons that we’ll be able to use to teach empathy in our own classrooms next fall! These lessons will be published on one page online so at the end of the three weeks, we’ll have a wealth of empathy lessons, specifically written by Dunkirk teachers for Dunkirk students that we can take off the digital shelf any time we need to fill a few minutes.

Part 1: Developing Empathy

Here is the Slides presentation that will drive our work this week! In order to build a cohesive team, this week we'll start by looking at some voices of people we know and respect to ground our work with Borba into our own practice.

Part 2: Lesson Planning

This week's work will focus mostly on lesson planning based on our reading and learning. The Slides above will structure our work, but I snapped an image of the reflection slide because that's really the lynchpin of how we'll come together as a team.

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