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The Art and Science of Belonging: Engaging Today's Students with Insight, Skill and Capacity


International schools are putting enormous resources into building a culture of belonging in their schools. We know it is the foundation for academic engagement and the safety of our young people depends on it.


In spite of our best intentions, we are struggling to improve students' sense of belonging in our schools. We are struggling to convince students to support each other. Through all of this is a pervasive sense that this generation is just different from others (more anxious, increasingly reluctant to join or invite others into social groups, and more socially aggressive, to name three) and advances in technology are profoundly changing the learning environment in ways we can't fully anticipate.


The stakes are high. No matter how much technology advances, how we manage ourselves in groups and build a sense of belonging in our school communities is the essential component to any thriving school.


For over 25 years Rosalind Wiseman has been a global leader in creating cultures of belonging in schools. For the last two years, Rosalind worked with developmental psychologist Professor David Yeager on the just published book 10 TO 25: The Science of Motivating Young People. Based on cutting edge brain and behavior research, 10 TO 25 describes the fundamental reframing necessary to communicate effectively with young people. It doesn't traffic in anxious hand-wringing about this generation. Instead, 10 TO 25 not only presents comprehensive research on young people's development but goes the essential step further to show the "how do we talk to them" that Rosalind has dedicated her career to.


Topics covered:

  • Understanding the most recent research on how the drive for status and "earned prestige" drives motivation
  • Identifying the key components to "wise" feedback Defining the five questions teachers need to ask their students to create a classroom of belonging
  • Understanding the protector, enforcer and mentor mindset
  • Teacher scripts to help avoid power struggles and miscommunication


We often describe young people as the future. Instead, let's think of them as our collective "right now." We must strengthen our understanding, compassion, and capacity to work with this generation of students. They need our wisdom and we need to understand the most effective and inspiring way to reach them for our collective good.

Speakers

  • Rosalind Wiseman (Speaker, Author, and Senior Leadership Consultant)

    Rosalind Wiseman

    Speaker, Author, and Senior Leadership Consultant

    https://rosalindwiseman.com/

    Rosalind Wiseman challenges us to understand the power of dignity to build courage, connection, and community.

    She is a speaker, writer, advisor, and thought leader on leadership, culture, conflict, and young people. Currently, she serves as the senior leadership consultant at the US State Department’s Office for Overseas Schools which serves over 195 schools throughout the world and is supporting Professor David Yeager at the University of Texas on a forthcoming book on young people and motivation.

    She is the author of nine books including the multiple New York Times Best Sellers: Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World—the groundbreaking book that was the basis for the movie and Broadway Musical Mean Girls, and Masterminds & Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World, which was awarded Best Parenting Book by Books for a Better Life. Her ninth book, published by Chronicle Books in the fall of 2022 with co-author Shanterra McBride, is Courageous Discomfort: How to Have Brave, Life Changing Conversations about Race and Racism. She is currently revising Queen Bees & Wannabes for a 4th edition to be published in 2024 in time for the 20th anniversary of Mean Girls.

    Rosalind also co-founded Cultures of Dignity, an organization that partners with communities to reimagine how to bring dignity and social and emotional learning to all.

    National media regularly depends on Wiseman’s expertise on principled leadership, conflict, youth culture, parenting, and bullying prevention. She has been profiled in or written for The New York Times, Los Angeles, Times, the Chicago Tribune,The Washington Post, and USA.

    Today, among others. Wiseman is a frequent guest on national media like the Today Show, CNN, Good Morning America, and NPR affiliates throughout the country. She has spoken to audiences throughout the United States and abroad including South by Southwest, Microsoft, UBS, The Royal Society for the Arts, the Association for the Advancement of International Education, the Game Developers Conference, the American Association of School Administrators, and at the White House many times across administrations.

    Rosalind is a native of Washington DC and spent most of her life there. She now lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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