Slidedeck for a presentation to educational administrators regarding a topic from 2014-2015 summer reading: "Scaling Up Excellence"

1. S L O W DOWNFebruary 2015
Kelly Eastwood & Jim Tiffin Jr.
Mount Vernon Presbyterian School
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2. What do we mean by
“Slow Down?”
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garden adventure - bright
flower” by Holly W
Hopkins, via flickr © (used
with permission)

3. Why Slow Down?
What reasons can you share?
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the Turtle” by Wami
Delthorn, via flickr ©
(used with permission)

4. Why Slow
Down?

5. How come we don’t Slow
Down?

6. How do others Slow
Down?Some ways we’ve heard about…
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Turbo” by clement127, via
flickr CC BY-SA-ND 2.0

7. How can WE Slow
Down……as a school?
…as a division/department?
…as an individual?
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vir-a-cocha, via flickr ©
(used with permission)

8. An Activity

9. The Groups…
1) Snails 5) Glaciers
2) Sloths 6) Tortoises
3) Molasses 7) Checkout Line on
Black Friday
4) Turtles 8) Rte 285 at Rush
Hour
(count off please)

10. What you’ll do…
First, visit with your group.
Second, play with the sand for a while. As
much time as you want. Maybe try one of
the sculpting challenges (don’t worry about
the timer component), and have fun!
Third, share some thoughts on this
question…

11. How can WE Slow
Down……as a school?
…as a division/department?
…as an individual?
You don’t need
to answer
all of them.
Just have a friendly
conversation.

12. Off you go,
with walking feet!
Some tunes
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by Esti Alvarez, via flickr
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13. Thoughts to share?
“Don’t do something… just stand there!”
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by Eric, via flickr © (used
with permission)