Board members practice CASTLE warm‑welcome and engaging lesson techniques
Summary
At the start of the work session a board member led a CASTLE SEL exercise that included a 'weather check' warm welcome, a paired discussion on removing phones from classrooms, and an optimistic‑closure prompt to share hopes for 2025. The activity served as a short professional‑development demonstration.
Carissa opened the work session with a brief professional‑development exercise based on CASTLE signature practices: warm welcome, engaging lessons and optimistic closure. She explained CASTLE "stands for the collaborative for so academic and social emotional learning" and modeled a short 'weather check' warm welcome to show how teachers can gauge students' emotional states quickly.
Carissa invited members to practice an engaging lesson technique — a two‑minute neighbor share on the benefits of removing phones from the classroom — and asked each member for an optimistic closure: one thing they were looking forward to in the 2025 school year. The exercise generated brief personal metaphors from members and several practical takeaways about morning transitions, classroom engagement and the district's upcoming cell‑phone policy discussion.
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