like to introduce Hall Davidson. I want you to know that he
has key noted at virtually every major tech
conference in the U. S. And abroad, we have many internationally he's
experienced. He has experienced leading virtual field trips
featuring a R, a, I and V. R. He's presented at
300 plus probably way Beyond that now
educates general educator workshops and conference sessions and is part
of an Emmy Award winning team responsible for creating
math, science and technology programs. We could go on forever
about how great he is if you were here last time. Look at that. We have the applause
in the in the chat. I know you can't see the chat home. I'm sorry, but there are applause in the
chat. Let me just stop talking and
hand over everything. Toe Hall and Paul were
invented for you being here again today. Thank you so much. And let's
learn something. Great. Well, thank you. And you should be able to see my screen
now. I hope we got it. That's great. Let me get back to the beginning.
I'm sorry, I can't see the chat, but I know I have people who are watching it for me because we
want to make This is interactive as possible. First, let me say thank you very
much for bringing me back. Um, it's great to be in Broward again.
Uh, it's also great to be in front of teachers
again. There was a time when I was in front of a lot of teachers all the time,
and Kobe really has made that very, very hard. And I
appreciate what you said about
being valued here, but let me say this one thing that
Kobe has done has made everyone value the work that teachers dio,
um, much more highly than they did before.
People who are at home, people who are seeing what learning does and
how hard it is to keep kids engaged on on track and everything
else. Um, this is, in a weird way,
is maybe not the year of the teacher, because everybody has to work so hard. But it's
the year of teacher respect. I think everybody is probably gonna
remember this for a very long time, which is Ah, terrific thing. Anyway, um,
Broward this time, um, Ellen wanted me to talk about
SCL. That's kind of a theme, and I'm glad to do it because this is
the year for SCL, too. So we're gonna talk about some great resources for
S E l. A lot of these are fun,
I think. And, uh, many of them are free. That is, there,
outside the firewalls, you can share it with other teachers, other colleagues
or anybody else that you think could use a little boost in
the department. Now, let me say this. If you log on
to clever and find Discovery education, you have a lot
of resource. Is that Aaron there already? Um, if you
do a search for social emotional learning Aziz, you can see
you get over 6000 results.
Now, whenever you get 6000 results, that causes stress. In my
opinion, it's like 6000. What? I will never be able to sort through
that. So let's make it less stressful to find SCL.
So I could go over to the side there, you can kind of see on the side the different
curriculum strategy can always do this in discover education anyway. But if I do a
search just for world history, for example, or for excuse me for social
studies. I get 476 results. And if I really look
specifically at world history instead of
socialize in general, there's only two results, so that's a lot less
stressful. It's a nice way to find something that might work, because here's the
thing is none of us have classes and s e L. It's kind of like
computer science. Everybody said, Oh, computer science is great, but how do you integrate it
into regular teaching? If you wanna integrate SCL
values into regular teaching, then this is a tool to do it. You
confined SCL resource is then search all the way down
inside. This is one of the advantages of the search and genocide discovered education and
let you do that. How would speak truth to power?
Relate to SCL? Well, you can see that it's
about, um, inclusion. Uh, it's
about diversity, and it's from all over. The world is kind of hard to see on the slide, but that's
a map of the world and things that take place all over the world. So when you're talking about
world history, this actually ties in and it's a it's a really good program, so
if you teach world history going and find it. If not, you could go in and find
something else that will really work for you. Now, in
addition to that, um, one of the things that I thought would be
fun, and I'm gonna show you some SCL resource is that live outside? As I said outside the
service. But I thought, Why not? If you've got,
you know, 200,000 assets when I do a search for things that we know
work for for SCL things like laughter
Well, is there are the resource is for laughter and happiness and things like
that. Well, that really are. So I did a search for laughter because
how could that not be good, right? And if you do a search for laughter, you
actually get 59 results, which is sort of doable, and you can
search them by videos or image or text. And I did a search for video and found some
other cool stuff. Here's how good laughter is. See if you cannot smile
when you hear this little three second burst.
Okay.
Is that good? Here's another one. Try
again.
Yeah. So if you like, I'm smiling it. I know it's
impossible. It's impossible not to smile. So and here's
a Here's a longer one
e. Okay,
I hope I
have you there. Um, this is so laughter. Is that a good thing? Can
it tight and what we're teaching? Oh, yes. So it turns out that this is a
little about the brain science of laughter, and this is also will show
up in your service when you search for laughter. But this is a group of people
who, and they kind of set it up. You'll hear them talk about this, but they go
into like, public transportation, and there's like six of them in a crowded
car, and they just start to laugh. And here's what happens.
A lady begins to laugh to
herself.
A soon, however,
the other commuters join in it
on.
Before long. The laughter has spread throughout the carriage like some kind of
virus. Good, violent. Our
scientists smell some serious science, and they're all laughing,
too. They're a tough crowd, the commuter crowd. So it was a
good experiment to see that they could break those barriers down. We
decided, with a few people to go into the train and
pretend not knowing each other on. Then he said, Okay, I
start laughing. And when the others see me laughing, they join
him and eso we want to try toe infect
the others. This'll group of seven soon had the
whole car in hysterics. Experts. Can you tell us why
way could look inside everyone's brains on that subway? You'd see a lot
of activity in the promoter cortical region, which is the part that
responds to laughter and responds by controlling the muscles of the
face. So as soon as you hear laughter without even intending to, you are
naturally pre programmed to want to smile anyway. So isn't that kind of
cool? So, yes, there is science, so laughter, which means there's a reason to have
laughter with students or with parents or with anybody else. So it's
kind of good. Anyway, that's that you'll find in a search for laughter. Laughter.
Thank you. We know that. Thank you even more. I'm gonna go down to the next
line, though. Here's, um, uh,
do this right now. This is a good experiment. Um,
if you're in an environment where you're surrounded by other people, just laugh and see if somebody
comes into the room. This is Ella Fitzgerald. Uh, this is also a
picture. It's in the service with Ronald Reagan
when he was president. And just see, just just try laughing. I mean, open your
microphone. Now, let's just to see if if you laugh, if somebody can,
we'll just walk into the room, right? Open your door instead of saying,
Hey, I'm working here Now. I'm getting getting some
credits here, but see if you just laugh out loud people come in.
Yeah,
yeah. Uh huh.
Okay. Anyway,
I don't know if you were if you were laughing out loud, I hope you were,
But if you do or you turn it up when people were laughing, you will see
people just come in. It's like, What's that? What's that? And it's a positive. I
have three dogs and I laughed and they all came running in. So it works for
E. They want to know what's funny.
Dogs do the evidence of humor. I don't know. Let's search that in the service and
see. But I think the answer is yes. Is a proud dog owner.
We have Michael in the chat. He said. My dog perked up. He's the only
one here. Well, that's good. That's
good. We have a cat. E don't see the cat,
but the dog is scratching so good work. And
here's the other thing about laughter. Um, you know, they were laughing on the subway
car. Uh, does anybody know a person like this?
This is a person. Everybody else's laughing. It's like the guy in the
trench coat. Not not going for it. Not doing the endorphins, this
guy. So, um, how many of you know that guy anyway?
Kind of funny to. Here's the other thing for looking for stuff and we
realized that s e l. And the social emotional
state of students is important on. We know that now more than ever
on there's data that shows you get If
you have, uh, people are feeling better in the way that laughter
does. You get about a 15% boost in learning. That's the data that I saw
as a teacher. You may feel it's a lot higher than that, but that was the data.
They did a Cal state out here, but it means that maybe we can find ways to teach
science that are also kind of fun and maybe provoked laughter. So
in searching for stem activities for
another another group I found I came across this the
staticky cat. So I have checked this with cat
lovers who say this is okay, but this is a way to teach,
um, the kind of energy that you teach with static s.
Oh, this was a science thing we're looking for. Stem resource is, but this is kind of fun to So
this is again from the service. Keith Staticky cat. Here
you go. This is what it looks like as a minute, 31 seconds. I vetted it a
little bit because it's downloadable, so I edited it. And here's here's sort of
what you see. It's just about static electricity. Our experts,
just like everybody else on the Internet, are not immune to a great cat
video. But it's the science in this clip that really got them
purring with delight. It's a cat doing science on the
Internet. It's my dream come true. So who's the natural born
thriller behind such furry feline fun? Well, it's Keith Hamilton from
Arizona. He got almost two million views of the video almost overnight.
So the fundamentals of static electricity, which
is what's causing the balloon to stick to the cat, is that opposite
charges attract one another.
You could look more at the science side if you'd like,
but the idea is that, yes, there is kind of fun way to get everything if you
just get enough assets. So that's that's what lives inside the
service and again when you teach, particularly in the year
2020. Maybe it's kind of good toe search
from another point of view and try to bring in, Um
ah, good social, emotional state, even through the
curriculum, like in that case, science or brain science. And anyway, that's
it. It was all that was stuff we did for STEM. I have a feeling there's a lot of stuff you
could use for literature and reading Justus Well, but
let's go outside the service now. This is something I talk briefly about it.
Um, last time I was in Broward, which was a lot of fun,
I'm glad to talk about just for a second again, because this is an interactive activity. I want
you to do something, so get ready for chat right now, but
this is again shareable notice. There's family activities here. Learn
experience. Happiness. I was lucky enough to be on the field trip to a high school. We explored a
lot of this stuff. Turns out there is science. See, one of the videos is
that this is your brain on happiness. Thes are science. Space is
appropriate for schools, but also good for families. And one of the things
that you find in the in the six happiness
skills that you can have kids do. One of those is this,
uh, she did I. Then I cut this off.
Looks like you can't see the whole screen. Let me
see if I can fix that. Um, but I can
read it to you, but it looks like I have lost some of the edge. Just gets curious anyway,
here's ah, way to increase dopamine in their brains. This is the things
that you can dio for students. But I thought, Hey,
let's do it ourselves, Right. Let's be students for a while. Here's what I want you to do.
Think of someone for whom you're extremely grateful. They
did something for whom for which you're extremely grateful. So I'm reading
this to you now, and the link is on this site and I'll tell you how to find all this if you
want Thio. But can you think of something who's done something for you?
Someone who has done something for you, for which you're extremely grateful Babies, a relative, a
friend, a teacher, a coach. Then this is the activity. Take
time to write a letter to that individual. In this case, we're gonna do a chat,
right? So describe what that person did describe
why you're grateful for it and then describe
how it may be affected. What you actually do. Try to
be as concrete as possible. Address the person. So in the chat right now,
like I could say, Thio,
uh, my daughter's significant other who came
toe stay with us as a flood Koven in New York, Um,
he lifted a large bag of gardening soil that it couldn't do it. So,
Sean, thank you very much for lifting that soil. That's what you
did. I'm grateful because I couldn't have done it. And I really wanted to do a little
gardening and you made it possible. So thank you very much. How did
you change my behavior? I could use my
back for the next week, which I couldn't have done otherwise. So if you
put in the back someone like a name Sean,
thank you for helping me with that bag
on Grateful because now I can move
eso if you if you look and tell me if anything's popping up in the
chat. We're seeing lots of gratitude in the
chat, right? It started with, um and I apologize, you guys, it's populating so
quickly. It's hard for me toe to grab the names. You know, I saw I'm grateful
for Joel because he keeps me smiling throughout the day. Um,
Wanda, says my coworker, Rhonda Flynn. She goes above and beyond to make everyone
feel included in special. I'm grateful
for, Fain says. I'm grateful for Sarah showing me how to smile
again. Melanie. I'm grateful to my students
who stopped her day today and asked, How are you doing?
Oh my gosh, these air. Amazing. Wow!
And here's what's happening. If we had a little chart measuring our dopamine and our
brains in Broward, it would be going like this because the science and
it's on the site. You can see it. They did it at the Center for Happiness. That u C
Berkeley University, California Berkeley. It does increase your dopamine. So when you have
students and you just want them toe, get happier. This is one of six
core exercises you can do, and it does make you feel better when
things that we do at dinner and Sean brought this to us, and I guess I'm
grateful for the gratitude is he's before every meal, he says, something for which he's grateful.
And I think that Z, that's really a good thing to do anyway. It's
increasing your dopamine. So now that you're joking means increased. Let's go
Thio something else. I need to do it on down here. Here we
go. This is another one. This is the happiness is really
directed at older students, just one directed for elementary school.
It's just for body confidence, body confidence, which, you know, is this
sort of ah, a terror that we all live with, particularly
in school, particularly as we get all you know as we move up through the
educational process and we really don't even shake. This is adults, so I thought we could try this. Although
we're not elementary school students, we might be able to try one of the exercises here, too.
And here's Here's what is. Here's A, as in the family
resource is share this with families. An amazing me self esteem
dot com Again, I'll tell you where this whole presentation lives. It's
online now, and there's direct links to some of the other things. Um,
but here's the thing we do for elementary schools, but I thought we could do
it ourselves. So there's 10 things here and I just want you to put in
there the number. And here's what I want you to do it after the
holidays. January the second. Which of these
affirmations, uh, do you think you're gonna need to have around the
house? 1245 10.
Um, which of these and again this is This is the thing You have
elementary students. Dio. I think this would really work for middle
school students to, uh but for you, which of these would
you like to see? Um, and of course, this is after we've
put on the cove in 19. Or at least so we're seeing a lot of number
fours and fives running around. I see some number six. Thank you. My body
for carrying me through the day. Uh, number two, I respect my
body is a popular one. Number nine. I'm surrounded by love. Number
seven. I am beautiful and unique. We're all over the
charts here. I think we've hit every one of them that are on
your affirmation was here. Amazing for 10.
I love it. Number 10 is my favorite. My body radiates
kindness. That's a great one. Isn't that a good one? And if we get if
we start this in elementary school, just think I mean that we prepare
them for middle school. Um, number three. It's
hard. That's a hard one for an adult, but for students, it's not
bad anyway. Okay, so my work and number four, I think it would probably be,
uh, the heavy one on that start that one. Let me start that
one right now. Way Go. Put number four up on
your wall by the by the window tattooed on my forehead or
something, right? Yeah. Don't put it by the refrigerator. You
know, put it. This isn't supposed to be this is about self esteem, not about nutrition.
Anyway, That's the way they go. So those are some more. Now, here's another one, because
I know we're going around that time I was just in a meeting this morning where they said
they're talking about the new budget. That's probably gonna come in education. Uh, there's probably gonna
be more money coming to education from the federal level, which is a good thing
for all of us on they said, two of the things that
more money is probably going to go to specifically R S C l
and in, uh, diversity on instruction. So this is a
site again. Ready set rise modules. You see, there's two things
there, um, trauma, informed and educated Well being. So
this is you may know somebody I think maybe all of us
do for whom teaching this year has been very
difficult on gets. Really, it's kind of a smack, and
you're not alone, But people know that anyways, something you might look at. The other thing
is cultural humility and equity. These were just posted these air new,
but these were things to you might look at if you need resources in that
area. All right, so I know we need to move on.
Here's ah, list of all of those. And if you go
to tiny or l dot com slash my Broward S e
l my Broward SCL. Then you'll
get a PdF That's got a link to all of these. There's the
happiness one. There's ready set rise modules. There were some other great ones
here. Just like I have time to talk about that. You've only got another minute,
but there's speak truth to power. We talked about that all of
these, and a lot more, including some for stem and other things. Um,
wellness are on that. Pdf, if we had
ah whole workshop, we could download those. You could explore those on
your own, I'd have you write a six word story, summarize
what it is that you've learned or that you find valuable in that session. And we
could populate the chat with that. But that's something you can dio on your own
on the weekend. So there it is. Tiny overall dot com slashed
my Broward s c l s O. Having that
in our campus course right now so that everyone will be able to
access it. So you guys don't have to stress about writing it down. I got you.
Okay, That's great. So we are. I think I'm just about out of the time you gave me.
I wanted to highlight a couple others. These air in the handouts, you'll see him
sore with wings for elementary. This is e think
wonderful thing. You can watch what these kids are doing. See if you can keep from
crying Super health Super you another one. These these are
elementary. This is for upper level grades that Tiger Woods
foundations have done this. Um they're also
really good again. I know this is too fast to write down thes air. All
in that pdf and I'll show it to you again. Uh, there it is.
Eso look for those, um tinyurl dot com
slash my Broward SCL. Thank you
very much for having me back. Thank you very
much for giving me half hour of your time.
Uh, I just have to say again, Uh, not
only do I respect what you're doing out there, but I think Ah, great.
Many people respect what you're doing on Maybe,
um, that will stay with us for a very long time. I hope so.
But congratulations on the work you're doing. Let's have Ah,
great 2021. Um, I don't think we need to
repeat 2020. So in 2021 again, thank you very
much. The whole presentation is that that you are all of the bottom
tinyurl dot com HD handouts. So I'll let you look at this for a while, but
again, Thank you. And thanks for the invitation. Do great working,
Mr Hall Davidson. Absolutely. In
your, you know, just forever indebted for for you coming
and supporting us. We're so very grateful to have you here. Let's see
you guys if we can get a group picture, right?
So what I'd like you to do is everyone turn on your
cameras for a second hold. If I could get you to stop sharing your
screen, I'm going to go into
together mode. Let's see if I could get everyone
here. Let's see if we can do it and I'll share my screen.
So turn on your camera's my friends. You look beautiful. I'm sure
of it. Absolutely sure. Let's see. Um, I able
thio
trying is trying to share. I'm gonna see if I can
snap. Snap it. Just a real quick screenshot. Okay? I got a few of
us. Let me put us in together most
and together. Come on. You could do
it. You can put I'm gonna close My husband. I was trying to watch
myself in chat. Get rid of that one. Okay. All
right, I'm getting there. Here we G Oh, my goodness. So many people. I
love it. Okay, we're gonna take I'm gonna take a real quick
picture and then also for my screen with you. This is
amazing. Okay, here we g o
All right. Excellent. Go ahead, you guys, and turn
off your cameras if you don't mind. Just kind of helps things a little bit
better. Thank you so much for that moment. Let me share
my screen and I'll show you the picture that I was
just able to grab. Here you go. Can you see it?
Everyone. Can you see my Can you see my image? Yeah, we see it. Laurie
Ann
E
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e. Love it. Thank you so much. Told
Davidson again. Round of applause. I'll tell you that. You started a movement in the
chat, my friend, because it was all about I appreciate this. I appreciate
that. We had someone that said thank you to innovative learning for bringing all of
these, you know, wonderful PD opportunities. I'm gonna admit I I
teared up a little bit on that one. So thank you. Thank you for that gratitude. I
certainly feel better than when we started. And I mean, you could see the smile on my
face. So Hall, thank you so much for being here and for everything that you've done to
prepare us and get us ready. We we are. We are super, super
grateful for everything that you've done. Thank you. Have a great day. Thank