COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE SUPPLEMENTS
To complement our existing lesson plans and to augment the experiences of educators in our community of practice, supplemental activities and professional development experiences have been created by The Good Project and COP teachers for teachers to learn from and to use in their classrooms.
Shafaq Irshad from Happy Home Clifton Campus presented on Brain Breaks at the October 2024 COP.
Katerine Hurtatiz Espinosa from Saint George's School presented on collaborative learning strategies at the September 2024 COP.
Meenakshi Iyer from the Podar Education Network presented on student growth in reflective judgement from The Good Project lesson plan dilemmas at the May 2024 COP.
WHO IS AN ETHICAL LEADER?
Presentation at the 2024 Jubilee Centre for Character and Ethics annual conference.
Leticia Margarita Esparza Aspinwall from Instituto Lomas del Real presented on the thinking routines for before, during, and after a lesson at the April 2024 COP.
Anna Orlowska from Gdańsk, IB World School 001309 presented on Bloom’s Balls, one-pagers, and retrieval practice at the March 2024 COP.
Anita Tjan from Ataturk University shared how to use and create Pecha Kuchas at the February 2024 COP.
THE SAMR MODEL
Shafaq Irshad from Beaconhouse School System presented on the SAMR model at our December 2023 COP meeting. She shared how technology can be used in the classroom to enhance student learning.
LENSES FOR FRAMING DILEMMAS
We share four different “lenses” or “frames” that you can use to analyze and discuss a dilemma.
ASSESSING YOUR CLASS’S VALUES
Use this PDF to find out your class’s aggregate most important and least important values, without a computer.
SIX THINKING HATS
Katerine Hurtatiz from St. George’s School in Colombia presented on the Six Thinking Hats at our November 2023 COP Meeting!
GPLP Student Post-Survey
Good Project Lesson Plans STUDENT Post-Survey 2023-2024 Version
GPLP Teacher Pre-Survey
Good Project Lesson Plans TEACHER Pre-Survey 2023-2024 Version
Collaborative Learning
Our September 2024 COP Presentation from Champion Katerine Hurtatiz from Colombia. Thank you Katerine!
Group Work Role Cards
Group work role cards supplement to the Collaborative Learning presentation.
EXPLORING “GOOD WORK” WITH STUDENTS
Presentation exploring the core concepts of The Good Work project and walking participants through a “See, Think, Wonder” routine using a Good Project dilemma.
ETHICS: WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
Professional Development presentation on the meaning of ethics within Moral Foundations theory and three normative philosophical frameworks.
Access Google Document of Dilemmas here.
HOW MORAL IS THIS?
A worksheet based on Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Foundations framework where students get to rate different vignettes based on how “morally wrong” they feel each situation is.
SIX THINKING HATS HANDOUT
Associated handout for the Six Thinking Hats presentation
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Livija Pribanić at Srednja strukovna škola Vinkovci in Croatia presented about different ideas to keep in mind when thinking about AI in the classroom for the January 2024 COP meeting.
SHAPING TOMORROW
Plenary presentation by Dr. Shelby Clark on preliminary student data about the type of “good work” role models they identify and the character strengths and behaviors they ascribe to these role models.
CRITICAL THINKING FOR THE GOOD PROJECT DILEMMAS
Presentation by Livija Pribanić at Srednja strukovna škola Vinkovci in Croatia taught a lesson on critical thinking and dilemma discussions for the March 2023 COP meeting.
Download a set of six discussion prompts that were used to spark conversation in our online community.
GPLP Student Mid-Year Survey
Good Project Lesson Plans STUDENT Mid Year-Survey 2023-2024 Version
GPLP Teacher Mid-Year Survey
Good Project Lesson Plans TEACHER Mid Year-Survey 2023-2024 Version
Collaboration Checklist
A collaboration checklist resource supplement to the Collaborative Learning presentation.
PBL WORKS Project Management Log
Project management log supplement to the Collaborative Learning presentation.
Shafaq Irshad from Happy Home Clifton Campus presented on Stephan Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” at the November 2024 Community of Practice Gathering
CHARACTER THROUGH COMMUNITY PRESENTATION
Presentation at the John Templeton Foundation Character Through Community Meeting in Charleston, SC on the goals, measures, and aims of the study focused on the community of practice.
DO STUDENTS LEARN PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Presentation at the 2023 Jubilee Centre for Character and Ethics annual conference.
DO STUDENTS LEARN PROFESSIONAL ETHICS: PAPER
Paper from the 2023 Jubilee Centre for Character and Ethics annual conference.
RECIPROCAL TEACHING
Katerine Hurtatiz at St. George’s School, Colombia presented on “reciprocal teaching” and how it can be applied to Good Project dilemmas at January’s COP meeting.
GOOD WORK BINGO
A Bingo card full of ethical, engaging, and excellent behaviors for students to focus on during their school day.
HEXAGONAL THINKING
Presentation by Peggy Dunstan from Mountain View High School in Virginia on how Hexagonal Thinking routines can help promote deeper thinking and connections amongst students for the October 2023 COP meeting.
GOOD WORK IN ACTION
2024 Workshop at the Project Zero Classroom Professional Development session on some of the core “good work” concepts and findings.
THE MAGIC OF A BLANK PAGE
Study Champion Anna Orlowska presented at our March 2024 COP meeting on the “Magic of a Blank Page” where everyone was excited to learn about the idea of “Bloom’s Balls!”
3 MOMENT 3 ROUTINES
In April 2024 study champion Lety Esparza helped the community learn more about thinking routines during our monthly COP meeting.
MEASURING GROWTH IN REFLECTIVE JUDGMENT
In May 2024 our study champion Meenakshi Iyer helped our community learn more about how their school system is creating measures of reflective judgment related to the lesson plans.
GPLP Student Pre-Survey
Good Project Lesson Plans STUDENT Pre-Survey 2023-2024 Version
GPLP Teacher Post-Survey
Good Project Lesson Plans TEACHER Post-Survey 2023-2024 Version
Pautas de Discusión
(Discussion Prompts)
Discussion prompt supplement to the Collaborative Learning presentation.
PBL WORKS Collaboration Rubric
Collaboration rubric supplement to the Collaborative Learning presentation.