Get More Out of Morning Meetings: Free 5-Day Professional Development for Teachers
Are you just getting started with morning meetings in the upper elementary classroom and looking for ideas and tips for how to implement them? Maybe you are considering including morning meetings into your school day, but aren’t sure of the real purpose or where to start.
Or, perhaps you’ve tried morning meetings but are now looking for ways to make them more valuable and sustainable this school year.
If you are hoping to run daily morning meetings or morning circles and are looking for the answer to these questions:
What are the components of a morning meeting?
Why morning meeting? What are the benefits of morning meetings in the classroom (especially for upper elementary)?
How can I spice up my morning meeting activities so they go beyond morning meeting questions?
What are morning meeting ideas that can extend beyond morning meeting greetings?
How can I GET MORE out of the time spent in morning meetings?
you will love my “Getting More Out of Morning Meetings” professional development! I have put together a free 5-Day Morning Meeting Teacher PD to share some fresh morning meeting ideas with you and tell you how I implement more meaningful morning meetings!
The first year that I implemented morning meetings, I loosely followed the Responsive Classroom morning meeting model. It was a great start for our classroom community, but I fizzled out in my commitment to responsive classroom morning meetings after the "back to school" season was over. In upper elementary, the morning meeting question slides and morning meeting greetings fell flat pretty quickly.
> > > It wasn't until I realized the power of THEMES-IN-LITERATURE-BASED SEL morning meetings that I truly committed to daily morning meeting lessons. I felt that I could push beyond morning meeting questions, greetings, and sharing sessions to take my students to a deeper level of personal development, social-emotional learning, and classroom community building. And boy, teacher-friend, was I RIGHT! Theme-based SEL morning meetings were LIFE-CHANGING for myself, my classroom, and my students.
And, I'm excited to tell you all about them!
This challenge will help you prepare your morning meeting PLAN OF ACTION.
You will:
Ensure that you know WHY you want to include morning meetings in your schedule
Get crystal-clear on what you want your students to gain from morning meetings (so that you can find ways to increase the outcomes of time spent in morning meetings for students)
Learn about the components of morning meeting and the structure and purpose of a THEME-BASED MORNING MEETING ROUTINE
Develop a plan for your first SEL morning meeting theme unit (or see and follow mine!)
Discover ways that morning meetings can enhance the curriculum and standards that you are required to teach
Plus, you'll get two complementary morning meeting SEL units (my Belonging SEL Morning Meeting Unit and Growth Mindset SEL Morning Meeting Unit) to get you started with morning meetings and tips for finding more morning meeting activities and resources.
READY TO JUMP IN and get your MORNING MEETING PLAN ON?
Just drop your information in the fields below and you'll get an email each day for the next 5 days that leads you through each video in the morning meeting teacher PD.
So, how does an online challenge work?
By signing up for the morning meeting teacher PD challenge, you will receive a FREE PDF guidebook to help you "Get MORE out of Morning Meetings." You will have BITE-SIZED assignments to think about before the daily online training and will fill in some of the information during the live trainings.
Each day of the challenge, I will send you an email reminder about the topic of the day and any tasks you should complete.
Join the private Facebook Group focused on Upper Elementary Morning Meetings where I've posted discussion questions and you can ask any questions you have!
The 5 videos are hosted on my Facebook page.
This challenge ran LIVE from July 23rd-July 27th, but you can do your own self-paced pd now!
The videos can be found on my Facebook page, but you'll want to sign up for the emails because that's where you'll get all of these free resources that I share during the challenge!
Who is this MORNING MEETING TEACHER PD challenge for?
If you’re here to learn about morning meetings—-it’s for you! I've taught 4th and 5th grade, so this challenge will be geared towards upper elementary classrooms, but lower-grades teachers with interest in learning more about the components of theme-based SEL morning meetings and getting ideas for how they can take morning meetings to the next level beyond morning meeting questions and greetings have also found a wealth of information in this training.
Teachers from Kindergarten through high school have participated in this morning meeting teacher PD challenge and told me how much they benefited and gained new ideas for their classroom community from it!
Are you super-excited, and ready to participate in this MORNING MEETING TEACHER PD challenge?
If so, you will be empowered to take baby steps each day that will move you closer to having a well-planned, purposeful morning meeting routine during back to school and ALL.YEAR.LONG!
I truly hope you will join us and that you share this opportunity with other teacher friends! (Just send them a link to this post!)
