VALUES GROUNDED LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT (VGLE)
Build Trust and a Growth Mindset with Students,
Use Conflict Productively, and Engage the Avoidant Learner
What Is the VGLE?
The Values Grounded Learning Environment is an 8 session workshop that unites conceptual understanding of principles like growth mindset and productive conflict with practical
application. We define strategies that educators can use the next day.
Why Should We
Consider the VGLE?
As any effective educator will tell you, the key to meaningful
learning lies in the relationship students have in the classroom.
Students need to trust that they can be vulnerable; vulnerable
to take healthy risks to grow versus being work avoidant. This
developmentally informed framework is designed to create a
trusting classroom environment that encourages students to
engage vulnerability inherent in the learning process.
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About Dr. Michael Redivo
Dr. Michael Redivo is a clinical psychologist, specializing in child, adolescent, and family psychology. Throughout his career, he has served in various roles including clinical director, training director, consultant, and private practitioner. He served as executive director of a private school for students (k – 12) with a variety of disabilities and behavioral challenges. Michael maintains an active interest in training and education. He authored a book, Values Grounded Parenting, a framework for raising healthy children. Michael has conducted numerous workshops and presentations to various school districts on topics related to positive behavior management, culture building, mental health issues within the schools and teacher development. The Values Grounded Learning Environment stems from his interest in supporting the “growing up” process in students AND staff.
Session 1establishes educators as leaders within their classroom. All effective leaders have a vision; a vision that guides them in their efforts at guiding others. Staff will learn their greater good or positive aim as educators.
Session 2 teaches Growth Mindset; a researched based approach that transforms avoidant learners to become engaged, productive students through the power of ‘Yet’.
Session 3 instills objective values that define classroom expectations that inform student AND staff behavior. Educators will learn practical strategies for linking values with student behavior, thereby reducing work avoidance and unnecessary power struggles.
Session 4 teaches the 5 C’s (Consistency, Clarity, Consequences, Calmness, and Competency). Each of the 5 C’s represents best practices within education and positive behavior management. This session offers a great deal of practical application, giving teachers hands on skills for reinforcing a trusting, productive learning environment.
Session 5 explains that productive conflict is essential for meaningful learning to occur. Decades of research from developmental and cognitive psychology underscore this conceptual reality. Educators will learn specific strategies to use conflict productively, thereby bolstering the learning process as well as trust within the classroom.
Session 5.5 (newly incorporated in 2024) examines forgiveness and relational healing. Students and staff who have endured various emotional wounds learn how incorporating forgiveness restores trust and promotes learning and growth.
Session 6 examines emotional disturbance and various risk factors that contribute. This session helps educators recognize the ‘hidden’ challenges that students with emotional disturbance endure, thereby increasing sensitivity and compassion in response to snarky and difficult classroom behaviors.
Session 7 reviews the protective nature of boundaries and details specific strategies educators can use in response to limit testing behavior. These strategies are designed to reduce power struggles, work avoidance, and defiance.
The Values Grounded Learning Environment integrates developmental theory in helping students see the value of going out of their comfort zone to learn new academic concepts and social – emotional skills.
The training includes a workbook that educators can use as a reference guide. Booster or refresher trainings are also included as a means to support consistent and effective application of the model. The goal being to make the Values Grounded approach part of the classroom culture; a culture that supports students growing in trust and engaging vulnerability in their capacity to learn and grow.
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