FACULTY MeetingPresented by Dr. Caren Baruch-Feldman

Partnering with Teachers to Increase Happiness and Kindness in Harrison Avenue

One Bucket at a Time

Thinking Affects Feeling

How One THINKS About A Situation Affects How One Feels.

Experiment

What Do You See?

Look around the room and try to find all the examples of RED you can see.

What have you spotted?

So What Can We Do As a Community to Increase Happiness and Decrease Stress?

BUCKET FILLING Have You Filled A Bucket Today?

5th Grade Leadership Program - How it Started?

What Are We Doing? 5th Grade Leadership Opportunities through Service Club

The Programs• Special Needs Program• Kindergarten Program• 4th Grade Program• Bucket Filling Committee

The Topics• How Can I Decrease my

Stress and Increase my Happiness?

• Bullying• Friendship

Bucket Filling: 3 Rules

Rule 1: Be a Bucket Filler

• You can fill a bucket by acts of kindness to yourself and/or others.

• When you fill a bucket you feel good as well as the other person.

Rule 2: Don’t Dip

When you dip into someone’s else’s bucket, you dip into your own.

If we do dip (and we all do dip sometimes) -sincerely apologize.

Rule 3: Use Your Lid

• Protect Your Own Bucket- guard and protect the good thoughts and feelings inside your bucket with your lid.

• Remember the person who is dipping is the one with the problem.

• Your lid controls how much you let out of your bucket.

• Use your lid to protect other people’s bucket.

Bucket Filling Pledge

Bucket Filling Activity

Fill A Bucket Song

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaddbqEQ1NE

Next Steps

• How can we bring bucket filling to each grade?• How can we bring bucket filling to our whole

community?

Some Last Thoughts• Behavior is Contagious• Mirror Neurons• When We Individually Choose to be More

Positive We Don’t Just Affect Ourselves We Affect Our Whole Community!

• Change Challenges to Opportunities

“For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”–Hamlet

From Challenge to Opportunity

After SANDY Seeing it as an OPPORTUNITY