Café Cornerstone's mission focuses on inspiring and empowering learners to become compassionate and globally aware individuals. The document discusses various factors that contribute to learner inspiration, empowerment, and compassion, highlighting the importance of a safe and engaging environment. It emphasizes the integration of holistic practices, individualized learning, and fostering a sense of community and connection to the broader world.

1. Welcome
to Café
Cornerstone
We’re pretty much going to
change the world.( )
Sept. 2015

2. Our mission:
Inspire and empower
compassionate, global
learners.

3. Create

4. Our mission:
Inspire and empower
compassionate, global
learners.
Individualization, Developmentally
Appropriate Practices, Life Long Learning,
Curiosity, Creativity

6. When is your learner
“inspired”?

7. What experiences
“inspire” learners?

8. Attendee Generated
Discussion Points
• Safe environment
• Self expression
• Individuality and
intentionality
• Adults cultivating
• Surprise factor –
being “wowed by
something”
• Sense of Control
• Teachers who
express surprise
• Risk
• Authenticity
• Physicality
• Problem solving
• (Appropriate)
Challenge
• Goal (Ownership)

9. Our mission:
Inspire and empower
compassionate, global
learners.
Balancing structure and choice,
authentic engagement, meaningful
activities

10. Create

11. When is your learner
“empowered?”

12. What experiences
empower learners?

13. Attendee Generated
Discussion Points
• Shared ownership
• Getting to make
choices
• Responsibilities
• More positive feed-
back than negative
• Moments of success
• Understanding and
honoring students
• Self-empowerment
• Individualized –
utilizing their
strengths
• Embracing mistakes
• Various outlets for
expression
• Integrated topics
• Get out of the way
• Not judging

14. Our mission:
Inspire and empower
compassionate, global
learners.
Core virtues, service, empathy,
reflective, understanding – with self and
others, social and environmental justice

16. When is your learner
compassionate?

17. What experiences foster
compassion?

18. • Authentic
experiences
• Sympathy and
empathy
• Exposure
• Respect – for self and
others
• Modeling compassion
• Helping identify it
Attendee Generated
Discussion Points
• Allotting time for
compassion
• Making it explicit
• Cultivating a culture
of it
• Routine opportunities
to build habit of mind
• Being aware of the
needs of others

19. Our mission:
Inspire and empower
compassionate, global
learners.
Holistic AND International,
Whole child, whole learner, whole
planet.

20. Create

21. What does “global”
mean for your family?

22. What experiences
globalize learning?

23. Attendee Generated
Discussion Points
• Travel/Field Trips
• Interconnectedness
• Engaged & interactive
• Awareness & agency
• Multiple literacies –
social, emotional,
intellectual, physical,
academic
• Learning happens
everywhere
• Technology as a window
to diverse peoples
• Recognizing change &
supporting students in
adapting
• Share humanity
• Openmindedness
• Connecting classroom to
beyond

24. Our mission:
Inspire and empower
compassionate, global
learners.
All people in our community and those
that we work/partner with.

25. Create

26. When does your learner
thrive?

27. In what conditions might
a community of learners
thrive?

28. No Discussion Points
Were Generated.
This question will open the
Oct. 2015 Café Cornerstone
In what conditions might
a community of learners
thrive?

29. Our mission:
Inspire and empower
compassionate, global
learners.

30. Create