Connecting The Dots: The Hundred Languages of Children, Embodied Education and Shared Leadership that Cultivate School Community Resiliency and Capabilities
By interpreting the Hundred Languages of Children as our educational framework, this presentation will share a collaboration spanning over 15 years that began with support from California’s Senate Bill 65 (SB 65). Tim provided professional development focused on evidence based practices that cultivated school community resiliency. Tim worked at the state level as well as with staff at Sanchez Elementary School in San Francisco’s Mission District during Raymond’s tenure as principal. Sanchez School was involved in a network of schools at the district and state levels with SB 65 support that emphasized improving students’ Attendance, Attitude and Achievement. Sanchez students demonstrated significantly higher academic growth than the statewide average during Raymond’s tenure. Kamala Harris, who was San Francisco’s District Attorney, carefully studied Sanchez School’s approach to enhancing attendance because of the steady improvements attained.
Tim and Raymond will discuss their collaboration and share insights gleaned from neuroscience research as well as useful practices that can be readily applied through distance or in person learning. All participants will receive two useful manuals entitled Brain in Motion and 101 Energizers that Tim has developed. The manuals offer plenty of time-tested enjoyable and effective activities aimed at nervous system integration and deepened student engagement.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
Tim Burns, M.A. - In 2020, Tim and Dr. James Brown published Anatomy of Embodied Education: Creating Pathways to Brain-Mind Evolution. Tim is an educator and author whose background includes over forty years of experience as a teacher, counselor, adolescent and family drug-treatment program director, and university instructor
Raymond Isola, Ed.D. - In 2019, Raymond and Dr. Jim Cummins published Transforming Sanchez School: Shared Leadership, Equity and Evidence. Raymond has been a bilingual public school educator for over forty years, serving as a teacher, principal and university professor.