Relationships
In Kansas MTSS, when schools are fully implementing systemic positive relationships, all staff are trained in the science and biology of relationships. They use strategies to increase their capacity to co-regulate and connect with students. All staff members use the feedback continuum, including relational, growth-promoting feedback. Schools have strategies for monitoring fidelity in this area.
The Science of Relationships
Want to improve your relationships? From marriage to friendships to raising and teaching children, start paying more attention to bids for connection.
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Resilience through Relationships podcast
How deep learning is fostered and the transformative impact when young people have a sense of meaning beyond themselves.
Instructional Practice: The Feedback Continuum
Feedback is a powerful instructional practice when it is focused on noticing the attempts students are making to enact skills. Feedback can: build trusting relationships, reinforce or lead to the repetition of positive behaviors, and provide enough specificity to help students become self-aware and self-monitoring. Perhaps the most powerful feedback is that which the student provides to the teacher. When adults ‘share power’ by embedding questions that invite student reflection, the feedback will be more likely to amplify student voice and agency, an internal locus of control, and metacognitive skills. Click the image to find out more.
Serve-and-Return Interaction
The foundation of relationships and learning all rest on Serve-and-Return Interaction. Serve-and-Return Interaction is how the brain and nervous system integrate social, emotional, intellectual, and sensory information. The famous "Still Face Experiment" video below visibly demonstrates the necessity of caring, connected, back-and-forth interaction throughout our development from infancy to mid-20's. As the basis of positive relationships, additional research reveals its role in health and longevity throughout the rest of our lives.