1. RULER and School Culture/Well-Being. How has RULER impacted your school culture and overall well-being in a positive way? What specific steps have you taken, and what practices yielded a measurable result?
2. Embedding RULER into instruction. Provide specific, concrete ways that teachers have seamlessly integrated RULER principles, tools, and skills into their classroom curriculum and instruction that have led to deeper understanding on the part of students and themselves.
3. Emotionally Intelligent Teaching. For example: (Offering advice on how to create a positive emotional climate (link to Charter); As a teacher, being an emotion scientist; Giving students permission to feel; Checking in w/students (Mood Meter) and tailoring instruction/classroom activities to where students are AND doing activities to shift mood for planned activities; Modeling RULER skills and explaining skill application to students.)
4. RULER Innovative Practices. How has your school or district moved beyond the basics of adult and student implementation to find innovative ways to integrate RULER into the DNA of daily life?
5. Student Voices. What do students say about the impact of RULER in your school and, beyond that, in their lives? What do your students have to tell RULER implementation teams about lessons they’ve learned?
6. Increasing Staff Buy-in to RULER. What is the magic formula for supporting RULER implementation to the point that the early adopters are joined by the more reluctant educators? What stories can you tell about ways to offer the time, support, and space to encourage more and more educators to invest in the effort?
7. How School Leaders Can Support RULER Implementation. Critical to any approach or program in a school or district is the message and support provided by leadership. How did administration send the signal and offer the resources that led to effective implementation in your school or district?
8. Family Engagement. When is the best time to involve families in the RULER implementation process, and what is an effective way to do so? Tell the story of how your school and or district included families in the effort.
9. RULER and Data-Driven Decision Making. What metrics have you chosen to identify your goals for RULER implementation, and how are you using data to measure your progress along your RULER implementation journey?
10. Finding Time: Creating a Timeline for RULER Implementation. How has your school or district stepped out the RULER implementation process? Specifically, what was the timeline for your introduction of RULER with adults and students, and how (if at all) was that timeline modified along the way?
11. Moving from Adult to Student RULER Implementation. As you completed Phase 1 of RULER implementation with adults, what initial steps did you take to move the focus to students? How did you roll out the work into classrooms? What lessons have you learned?
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