Engage - Engage students at the door

X-plore - Get in touch with where the learners are , emotionally and academically

Communcate - Communicate the content of the class

Empower - Empower the learner

Launch - Launch is a meaningful ending.

Engage students at the door: shake hands, eye contact, smile, welcome, affirm, model

• Take the "temperature of the class" Greeting students at the door gives you insight into any outside problems/concerns that may be brought into class.
• This models appropriate social and professional skills that students can use in their daily lives.
• Don't use student greeters as a way to avoid being at the door.

X-PLORE: Get in touch with where the learners are personally, emotionally and academically:

• Students have a prompt, question, problem to get them thinking while others are coming in.
• Good Things- This will feel awkward at first, be patient
• "Process" the journal/question/problem- Quickly share some of the thoughts, ideas and observations from the X-Plore

Communicate the content of the class

• Address the needs discovered in the X-PLORE step.
• Two-way process and should include some dialogue with learners
• Flexibility & Creativity are essential. Students need to practice thinking through questions. Have other learners share their "thinking process"
• Make "real world benefit" whenever possible.

Empower the learner

• Students gain the ability to "use and do". Time for them to practice and apply what they have learned.
• Students should feel free to fail. They should have encouragement and support from teacher and other students.
• "I do." "We do." "You do."

Launch is a meaningful ending.

• End & Send
• Summary of what has happened and a charge forward.
• Give students a "flight plan" for how they can use the learning.
• Quotes, poems, idea, task,stories, songs, "Exit Tickets" phrases that send students out the door thinking.