Miles currently works in the Early Childhood Center at the International School of Brussels, where he has been instrumental in implementing the Tribes process and building Tribes Learning Communities throughout the school.  The mission, goal, and philosophy of Tribes ideally fits with all missions and goals of international schools as it is particularly suited to the incredible multi-national diversity in  most international schools.  The increasing global mobility of families served by international schools requires that these schools themselves become and provide the stable sense of community that these families often lack.  The Tribes process helps create this community.

The first session is an Introduction to the Tribes Process and the focus of this workshop is a brief introduction to Tribes Learning Communities and building Tribes within early childhood classes.  Participants will learn about the developmental process of Tribes, study new patterns of interactions between teachers and students and between student peers, the profiles of resiliency in children and how to build it and the benefits of cooperation in learning environments.  The role of the teacher in developing Tribes learning experiences will also be explored.  This is meant as a general introduction to the Tribes process.

The second session is Tribes – A New Way of Working Together and the focus of this workshop is on the importance of social/emotional education within early childhood programs, in particular how the Tribes Process can be used effectively to incorporate social/emotional development within all areas of our programs.  We will review the protective factors that build resiliency in young children and the stages of developing supportive learning communities. Participants will experience “hands-on” Tribes activities in order to build an understanding of the Tribes process.  We will also explore how Tribes has been used effectively within an international school setting to address social and emotional learning objectives.  Participants will leave with practical strategies for developing a community of learners that builds independence and collaborative skills.

For more information about the ECIS Early Childhood Conference:

http://www.acs.gr/ecis-conference-2012

Miles Madison can be reached directly (for on-site trainings/workshops/presentations throughout Europe) at:

madisonm@isb.be

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Attention Trainers:

The Tribes Learning Community parent program is designed to engage up to 30 parents in 3 participatory evening meetings, each 2 hours long. There are three modules that cover what we consider to be the basic knowledge that parents need in order to understand Tribes Learning Communities in their preschool, elementary, middle school or secondary school. The training plan is written to be co-facilitated by a Certified Tribes Trainer and a Tribes-trained lead teacher.

Goal: To have school parents learn about and experience the Tribes Active Learning process that teachers of the school are using to maximize students’ academic learning and their human development in all of their wholeness and unique potential.

Overall Course Objectives:

Parents will:

• Gain knowledge and experience ways in which teachers are creating ideal learning cultures and using effective ways to assure success in learning for all in their classrooms.
• Understand how the support of all aspects of their student’s development is important for his or her academic achievement… and well being in life.
• Experience how and why students’ motivation and academic learning increases when working actively together in collaborative small groups (teams or tribes).
• Discover how to use the positive culture, collaborative strategies and caring process in their homes.
• Enjoy sharing and becoming acquainted with other parents also committed to readying their children for meaningful purpose and well-being in today’s world.

Module 1 Objectives

Parents will:

• Recognize why student centered active learning is essential for excellence in education today.
• Learn why education today is focusing on children’s whole development as well as their academic learning.
• Learn about and also experience the well known research-based process, known as ”Tribes Learning Communities” that now being used in our school.
• Become acquainted with each other and discover how to use many of the ideas and strategies at home.

Module 2 Objectives

Parents will:

• Experience how new students quickly gain inclusion and a sense of belonging in a Tribes classroom.
• Discover the many researched benefits of group learning.
• Enjoy participating in active learning strategies.
• Learn how the stages of the Tribes TLC community building process contribute to students’ individual development.
• Consider the importance for teachers and parents to recognize the many different ways in which children and youth learn.

Module 3 Objectives

Parents will:

• Discover in viewing the brief video “Creating Futures of Promise” how positive school and home environmental factors support the development of life-long resiliency in children.
• Learn a series of helpful communication, decision making and problem solving strategies to use at home.
• Enjoy observing students and their teachers demonstrate how Tribes active learning strategies make learning academic topics meaningful and memorable.

Order your Parent Program Training Materials today!
Call the office (800-810-1701) or email (tribes@tribes.com) to order your plan.
Only $75 (plus shipping).

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Jeanne, your Tribes book was with me when I first started teaching in South Carolina in 1977. Now, 35 years later, it is the ONLY book I still have and use. (As language teachers, we don’t use books anymore to teach languages – we tell stories)  I have been a better teacher because of you. Your ideas and activities are as fresh and useful as the day I started using them. Tribes helped me design a way of teaching based on the student first and the material second. Your ideas are visonary. As I get ready now to hang up my cleats, I look back and realize that I must THANK YOU for all you have done for me and my thousands of students. What great, truly human, things you have shared with us in that book. It is so nice to be able to share this great news with you. Your book, its sparkling message of respect for others, has guided my career like no other. Hats off to you, Jeanne Gibbs!

Ben Slavic
Denver Public Schools

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If you would like to learn more about this exciting opportunity and download the TOT Application Packet, click here!

2012 TOT SCHEDULE:

JUNE 18-22, 2012 – AUSTIN, TEXAS
Hosted by Brentwood Elementary School
Austin Independent School District
Austin Application Deadline: May 20, 2012 

AUGUST 13-17, 2012 – CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA
Chinook Winds Adventist Academy
Hosted by the Alberta Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Calgary TOT Application Deadline: July 1, 2012

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College Readiness: Learning Collaboratively

Article by: Ben Johnson

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/college-readiness-collaborative-learning-ben-johnson

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“Honoring the Past, Embracing the Future”

40th Anniversary Celebration of Tribes TLC!

July 9-12, 2012

Where you ask? The place where it all began many years ago… Northern California!

Join us as we Honor the Past and Embrace the Future in the Heart of the Sonoma Wine Country.

Click here for all the details!

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1. Attn: Tribes Trainers!

In the 24 years I have been in education, I have not come across a curriculum, process or framework that takes into consideration the “Whole Child Development” and then puts it into a training process that actually has educators experience Tribes Learning Communities.

Tribes starts at the beginning of all basic human needs by building an environment where all feel safe, valued and a have a sense of belonging. From there the Tribes TLC® Process builds in expected behaviors and then bridges over into best practices for teaching and learning.

Once the Tribes Process is implemented and developed, a school can train in and implement the PBIS/RtI framework to give deeper meaning to Tribes by going beyond the Universal practices into interventions for the students who need them both academically and behaviorally.

In summary, Tribes is a process that implements research based best practices for “Whole Child Development”; PBIS/RtI is the framework that drills deeper into making a school’s system, practices and data collection more effective.

Submitted by Christine Kleiman, CESA 7 Safe and Healthy Schools Director, Certified Tribes Trainer, PBIS External Coach, SWIS trainer.

For more information, please download:

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To Trust the Process…

Ten smiling students all standing in a line,

The Ministry of Education said, “Test them!” then there were nine.

Nine smiling students found teachers would not negotiate

One shouted “I have a voice too!” then there were eight.

Eight smiling students wanted school to be close to heaven

But when someone bullied them, they were left with seven.

Seven smiling students spoke up, even hits the bricks

One wearied of no change, then there were six.

Six smiling students tried verbal linguistic lessons to survive.

One was bodily kinesthetic, now there were five.

Five smiling students wished their learning styles addressed more.

Teachers said, ”That’s how I learned!” and we were down to four.

Four once eager students, discouraged as can be

Demanded to use technology… and then there were three.

Three lonely students, my rhyme is almost done

Just wanting more connection were soon down to one.

One Lambton Kent teacher, encouraged her superintendent true,

Brought Tribes to the board and then there were two.

Two earnest LK teachers, each talked to one more,

Extolled the value of Tribes Learning Communities and then there were four.

Four sincere LK teachers worked on introducing Tribes strategies late,

Listening, mutual respect, appreciation brought the number up to eight.

Eight dedicated Tribes trainers now, quite a decent team

Fought for all new teachers to learn this process and we soon had sixteen.

Sixteen earnest teachers, doubled six times more

Kids learned, listened and grew and schools filled to one thousand sixty-four.

The morale of this story is the Tribes process works for you

Don’t sit back and complain but learn what you can do!

Kids need caring teachers, safe places, Jeanne Gibbs’ philosophy

The Tribes process made my school a place where kids wanted to be.

Tribes for me has made my teaching life complete

Wish all kids could experience the chance to learn and grow like wheat!

by Shirley Sewell

Tribes Coordinator

Lambton Kent District School Board

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Reaching All by Creating Tribes Learning Communities blends the fields of group process and cooperative learning; prevention and resiliency; learning theory and school change into a comprehensive, meaningful whole. This readable, useable, wonderful book is not just a set of activities to build community.

Jeanne and her colleagues incorporate the latest research on teaching and learning. They illustrate specifically how the Tribes process applies to a variety of school and organizational needs. Most importantly, they help the reader to feel hopeful and proud to be working and learning together with children and with each other.

Copyright 2006 – 1st Edition

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Then…. the time might be right for you to consider hosting a Tribes Training of Trainers during the summer of 2011!

CenterSource would like to identify TOT locations and dates in order to send out an announcement to our entire listserve before the holidays. If you are interested in hosting a TOT, we would need a bit of your time to help with some communication and logistics.

We would need –

• a core group of 15 or so people from your area. We could then fill in with folks from other areas.

• a room large enough for 36 people (up to 34 participants and 2 CenterSource Staff Trainers). The room will need to be large enough to move chairs around into community circle and various groupings, including 5 tribes. If you do not have a training room, we could use a large library, gym, cafeteria, or multi-purpose room. A classroom is usually too small for the TOT. Carpet is nice to dampen sound, but not necessary. It is best not to have tables for participants, but just chairs that can be moved into various configurations. We prefer to use a training room without a fee, of course, in order to help keep the registration fee at a reasonable cost.

• a projection screen, power strip, 2 easels, chart paper, and possibly other audiovisual equipment. The CenterSource Staff Trainers bring their own data projectors and computers. We ship all books, materials, markers, and training supplies.

• a reference to a reasonably-priced caterer, who CenterSource will work with and pay directly.

• a reference to a reasonably-priced hotel for out-of-town folks. We try to negotiate a good room rate, but participants make and pay for their own reservations.

CenterSource will –

• send out and collect all registrations, which are reviewed by our screening committee.

• send out an announcement on our listserve and provide a flyer to you if you would like to forward it to people in your district.

• have a discounted early-bird registration by March 30 as an incentive for people to register early. If the numbers are too low about a month or two before the TOT (i.e., if CenterSource cannot meet costs), then we would have to cancel, and people would have to switch to another TOT location.

If you are interested in hosting a TOT, we will need to hear from you by December 1st. Please let us know prior to that time if you need more information in order to consider this possibility. Below you can download the applicant criteria and TOT objectives, as well as an article on developing leaders. We look forward to working with your leadership team to help intensify and sustain the use of the Tribes process over many years!

Warm Regards,

Carol Rankin, Program Development
Email: carol@tribes.com

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