"We must change from
a model that picks winners to one that will create winners."
Harold Hodgkinson, Michigan and Its Educational System, 1989
Does the approach with which we work with students make a difference
in the results that will be achieved?
This web site helps you explore the thinking behind becoming a 'strength-based'
educator, classroom, and/or school system.
You are serving on a committee that is charged with designing a new report card, a report card that will be able to communicate
to your students, their parents and your school leaders, which of the standards/benchmarks a student is demonstrating proficiency
or lack of proficiency.
You have been asked to serve on a subcommitte of three, that will prepare a presentation to the larger Report Card Study
Committee at next week's meeting. Your presentation will help the committee explore the idea of becoming a system that
values the strength-based approach to motivate, inspire and engage more students in wanting to improve their achievement.
To do that, you have decided that you need to look at multiple resources from a variety of different perspectives.
You will need to synthesize the information from those resources and create a chart of WHAT IT IS and WHAT IT IS NOT. You
will also create a one-page executive summary exploring the idea that your district seriously look at the implications
of implementing a ‘strength-based’ approach simultaneously with instituting a standard’s referenced report
card.
Educational Leadership, Perspectice/Discovering Strengths
Click Here for Full Text Article
Educational Leadership, Celebrate Strengths, Nurture Affinities: A Conversation with Mel Levine,
Click Here for Full Text Article
Great Kids, Inc., Strength-Based Approach, http://www.greatkidsinc.org/strength-based.htm
Productivity Plus Tasmania - Brinigng Strengths Based Practice Training to Tasnmania, http://www.prodplus.com.au/AboutStrengthBasedPractice.html
Coast Guard HR Flag Voice 116, Creating the Exceptional Workplace-Building a 'Strength-Based' Organization (Part 10), http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-w/flagvoice/fv116.htm
Educational Horizons, Strengths-Based Education: Probing Its Limits. The Cutting Edge
http://www.pilambda/org/horizons/v83-3/cutedge.pdf
Educational Horizons, StregthsQuest in Application: The Experience of Four Educators. The Power of Teaching Students Using
Strengths
http://www.pilambda.org/horizons/v83-3/henderson.pdf
Don't Stop Until You Can... Don't stop your quest until you can:
1. Clearly explain what being a strength based organization really means, both philosophically and in practial
terms to many different audience, the classroom to the board room and beyond...
2. Can give specifics examples of what it would look that and sound like if were the way you did business in your school...for
example, what would the conversation between teachers and students look like, what would be the questions that would be asked
when assigning students to classes, what would be the expectations for students, etc....
3. Have suggestions about how to go about making it happen in your school...
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To Deepen Your Understanding
Books:
Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton, 2001
A Mind At A Time, Mel Levine, 2003
The Myth of Laziness, Mel Levine, 2004
Primal Leadership, Learnring to Lead with Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, & Annie
McKee, 2002
What Works in Schools, Translating Research into Action, Robert, Marzano, 2003
How To Grade for Learning, Linking Grades to Standards, Ken O'Connor, 2002
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