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Take some time for you!
4 days and 3 nights
Dates: July 17-20 or August 7-10
Location: Double Bar J Guest Ranch
Accomodations: Cabins at the Double Bar J are cozy and lovely.
Each cabin has two private rooms with a shared bathroom in between.
There is also the manager's house that will hold a larger group if you are planning
on bringing a team and would all like to stay together.
Contact Heather at 1(307)342-6326 or thedoublebarjranch@gmail.com for more information and to secure your spot!
For more information contact us below!
Our Mission
In this age of AI, Social Media, and disengaged youth, this retreat will help you tap back into to the love you have for helping your students to reach their fullest potential. Learning is a human to human endeavor. The student- teacher relationship is the number one driver of whether a student tunes in or turns off. When you feel overwhelmed and depleted so do they. Take this time for yourself, with like minded colleagues from all over, and with experiential lessons in the neurobiology of human learning and more! Looking forward to seeing you soon!
Liz
Teacher Retreat Schedule
Thursday July 17
Check in 3-5pm
Introductions/dinner 5-7
Friday July 18
8:00 - 10:00am Creative expression and learning
Breakfast 8-9 Setting our intention
Transformative story telling
Activity goal: To discover how self-determination and curiosity drive motivation
Objective:The participants will learn how to use creativity, personalization and curiosity to tap into a student’s inherent motivation to learn.
10-12. The energy you bring. Collaborative leadership and Setting boundaries
Activities with horses to understand coherence, collaboration, and energy exchange, and deep listening in relationships.
Objective: The participants will demonstrate and analyze the use of non-dominant, nonverbal communication to elicit compliance, coherence, cooperation, and partnership with their students to reach a common goal.
Lunch 12:30-1:30 Group lunch activity
Objective: Participants will join in a collaborative discussion with their peers, synthesize their thoughts and peer feedback, and generate ideas into activities, lessons and targeted outcomes they can use in their classrooms.
1:30-3:30 Motivation, Meaning, Purpose and Relevance
Archery (Zen and the Art of Archery)
We will use the activity of archery to experience how our preconceptions and expectations about an activity as well as how the intended predetermined result of the activity affects our performance, and behavior within the activity.
Objective: The participant will analyse one or two of their classroom expectations against the motivation constructs of meaning, relevance and purpose, to determine what part of the lesson supports student’s inherent motivation and what parts do not support motivation.
4-6:00pm Body-mind-burnout connection
We will use a walking in nature activity to experience what stressful thoughts do to the body and to the mind.
Objective:The participant will practice 3-5 mindfulness techniques to reevaluate and regulate stressful thoughts in the moment and thus relieve stress throughout their body. The will also identify 3 techniques for sharing stress relief techniques with their students.
6-8:00 pm Dinner reflection and discussion.
Reflection and collaboration
Objective: Participants will join in a collaborative discussion with their peers, synthesize their thoughts and peer feedback to generate activities, lessons and targeted outcomes they can use in their classrooms.
Saturday July 19
8:00 -9 am Narrative Learning: The story of Jane.
We will use deep listening, observing, egoless, non-judgement as we deconstruct the story of a student. The story of Jane
Objective: Participants will join in a collaborative discussion with their peers, synthesize their thoughts and peer feedback into activities, lessons and targeted outcomes they can use in their classrooms.
9:00-11:00 Finding Meaning
Activity: Experiencing our surroundings in a new way. Hike
Objective: Based on the work of Ellen Langer, PhD, participants will practice expanding and enhancing awareness in an otherwise common experience in ways that bring to light new information and fresh insights. They will incorporate the experience in reviewing their subject matter and how they present it to their classes.
11-12 Labels and Expectations
Reflecting and expanding on how we see our students: The dandelion story
Objective:Participants will join in a collaborative discussion with their peers, synthesize their thoughts and peer feedback into activities, lessons and targeted outcomes they can use in their classrooms.
Lunch 12:30-1:30- Collaboration and Reflection
Discussion and brainstorming ideas for the classroom.
Objective:Participants will join in a collaborative discussion with their peers, synthesize their thoughts and peer feedback into activities, lessons and targeted outcomes they can use in their classrooms.
1:30-3:30 Communication in relationship
Trail Ride- We will ride horses and observe what we are communicating to and receiving from the horse.
Objective:The participants will learn how to partner with and individualize their reactions and responses to the student at hand while moving toward a mutual goal.
Saturday Evening 4-6 In the teacher student relationship, what do you bring?
Understanding the role of energy in the teacher student relationship, or any relationship for that matter.
Objective: The participant will be able to identify their organic intrinsic motivation to move forward in their life and their profession and identify that energy visually.
Dinner and relaxation 6-8
Sunday July 20
Wrap up!
Breakfast 8-9
9:15-10:15 – Take Away’s
What are three things you are taking away from this experience
How might this experience help you as you move forward in your teaching and in life?
Connect what you learned to 3 of the topics we covered.
Objective:Participants will join in a collaborative discussion with their peers, synthesize their thoughts and peer feedback into activities, lessons and targeted outcomes they can use in their classrooms.
10:30am Farewell and Check out