Social and Emotional Learning with Denise Pope

Episode 019: Denise Pope, ChallengeSuccess.org

Dr. Pope joins us on Vrain Waves to talk about the role that stress plays in our students lives, how we can work to decrease that cognitive takeover, and some digestible research we can both learn from and share with our parents. Enjoy!!

Connect with Dr. Denise Pope
Twitter: @chalsuccess | Website: http://www.challengesuccess.org/, https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/dpope

Connect with Vrain Waves
Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

Links & Show Notes

• Out of our heads and into the classroom (01:26)
• Classroomscreen.com (01:45)
• Google copy vs. edit url instructions (03:05)
• Critical Creativity (04:29) - Resume Rationale
• 4 Quadrant activity from Mandy Fernandes (06:38)
• #MakeSomeVrainWaves
• Denise Pope intro (07:51) - Challenge Success network | Overloaded and Underprepared
• Denise on purpose of education and the way we do school (08:37)
• Embracing change (11:15)
• Curriculum Construction at Stanford (12:03)
• Overloaded and Underprepared (14:23)
• Challengesuccess.org (14:45)
• Student academic stress, root cause (15:26)
• SPACE framework (17:58) Getting students involved (21:07)
• Stress & academic pressure
• PBL (23:32)
• Alternative & Authentic assessment (26:08) Choice, Voice, Revision, and Redemption, Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students (28:33)
• Climate of Care (33:20); Advisory (35:39)
• Stress in adults (37:25)
• Block scheduling (40:02)
• The Jared Project | The Dot Project | Relationship Mapping (41:01)
• Educate Parents (42:39)
• Resources on challengesuccess.org | Grade-level Research
• Videos (44:41)
• White Papers (45:39) - homework and elementary education white paper
• Publications
• Overloaded and Underprepared Examples / Case Studies (47:45)
• Northern California, Wellness Curriculum in PE classrooms / mindfulness, meditation, stress, sleep
• Ann & Nate Levine Academy, Texas: “Show what you know” boxes on quizzes and tests
• Revision / retakes (49:51) (external article, opinion on Voice, Choice, Revision, Redemption)
• Elementary research - Play time, down time, family time (“PDF”) (50:23)
• Finland - 15 min recess every hour
• Homework in elementary school
• Denise Pope ppt on protecting PDF
• Wrap Up (53:23)
• Research for teachers (54:08)