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STG International, Inc.

STG International, Inc.A member of the National Head Start Training and Technical Assistance Network

Empowering Parents with I am Moving, I am Learning (IMIL)

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WELCOME!

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INTRODUCTIONS

• Please tell us your:

‐Name

‐Position/Title

‐Grantee you represent

• Have you had IMIL training, if so what is a favorite part of it.

• What are you expecting/looking for from this training?

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OBJECTIVES

• Revisit the IMIL curriculum to be reminded of the vast resources at our finger‐tips

• Make connections between the PFCE and IMIL

• Consider a Cultural Lens

• Define, Describe, Discuss and begin to apply principles of adult behavior change using the SWITCH framework

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The IMIL Gallery Walk

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Let’s go!


IMIL Walk Questions for Discussion

Possible discussion in your groups for each stop:

•Have you used this training in your program? How?

•Which Family Outcome(s) from the PFCE Framework do you think relate to the IMIL workshop(s) at you poster.

* Vote for the PFCE frameworks using the grid and the stickers provided. Only one sticker per Outcome per stop please.

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Ingredients for PFCE Success

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• Building goal‐directed relationships with families

• Crossing contexts ‐ at home, in the early childhood program, school & community

• A shared responsibility

• A set of beliefs, attitudes, behaviors and activities


What is Culture?

Culture is:

Not the same as race or ethnicity

Learned Dynamic & individualized Embodied by rules that

shape behavior


“Big C” & “Little C”

Big C Culture = Deeply held values and beliefs; influenced by identity with a particular ethnicity.

Little C Culture = The culture within each family.



Concrete Behavioral SymbolicMusic Social roles Value systemsCelebrations Language CustomsClothes Non-verbal comm. SpiritualityFood Gender roles ReligionWords Family dynamics Work viewPosters Beliefs & Mores

Value Diversity


Keys to Success:

1.Know the culture and background of your children’s families.

2.Communicate with the family to understand the culture of each family.

3.Avoid assumptions.

Valuing Diversity


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Take a Comprehensive Approach to Change

Are we in the CHANGE business??

Consider strategies to support change at all three levels:

• Individuals

• Others (Staff, Families, & Children)

• Programs



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One size does not fit all

Take a Comprehensive Approach to Change


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Supporting Others in Change(Staff, Families, & Children)

• Raising awareness of need

• Building motivation and confidence

• Offering strategies and positive reinforcement


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Give me a BREAK?



“Is there an easier way to CHANGE?”

• Describe a time in you life when you embraced a change without resistance or even looked forward to it?

• How did that change make you feel?

• How did that change differ from more difficult changes in your life? In other words, what makes some change harder than others?

• What are some thoughts/concerns you have when we discuss empowering families to build healthier lifestyles?

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When CHANGE is HARD!

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• Three Surprises About Change

• Examine the underlying hypothesis of SWITCH

– Direct the Rider

– Motivate the Elephant

– Shape the Path



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SURPRISE #1

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• What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem

• People eat more when you give them a bigger container – we don’t need to worry about people’s attitudes or beliefs – we don’t need to find a way to give them more will power – we don’t need to get them to a therapist to deal with their mindless eating issues – we just need to give them smaller buckets!!



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• So some change is hard and some is easy

• How do we make change easy? We’ve looked at one way – change the situation / give them smaller buckets

• To examine the two other ways to make change easy we have to look at our brain



EMOTIONAL and THINKING BRAIN

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The Rider, the Elephant, and the Path

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The Rider(rational brain)

The Elephant(emotional brain)

The Path(environment)


Analogy Summary

• Riders without Elephants= understanding without motivation

• Elephants without Riders= you’ll have passion but no direction

• Without both nothing will happen, but when they work together change can come more easily.

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Food Perception Study

• College students asked to come to lab hungry

• The lab smells like freshly baked chocolate cookies

• Cover story: Radishes and cookies have significantly distinctive tastes so we will call tomorrow about your memory of that.

• Half the participants asked to sit and enjoy a few chocolates and cookies, not radishes and the other group vice versa

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SURPRISE #2

• What looks like laziness is often exhaustion

• People may say change is hard because people are lazy or resistant and most times this is flat wrong! In fact the opposite is true: Change is hard because people wear themselves out.

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SURPRISE #3

• What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity

• We can’t let the Rider just keep spinning his wheels!

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SWITCH Theory

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Direct the Rider – Find the Bright Spots

• Gather data – teams of mothers were sent out to weigh and measure every child in their village

• Study the data to find the bright spots – were there any children who were bigger and healthier than the typical child?

• Make sure you understand the “normal way” things are done – most families served 2 large bowls of white rice to their children

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• Study the bright spots to see what they’re doing differently –the bright spot moms were serving 4 small meals, and using uncommon foods like sweet potato greens and tiny shrimp

• Make sure that none of those practices are “exceptional” in some way – if one of the healthy children had been receiving food from a wealthy relative – that’s not a scalable solution

• Find a way to reproduce the practice of the bright spots among other people – the moms formed cooking circles where they could learn the new practices from each other; notice he didn’t make an announcement – he knew that knowledge does not change behavior

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In all the program reached 2.2 million Vietnamese people in 265 villages – a small team with limited resources made a huge dent in malnutrition because they believed in bright spots!

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Personal Reflection

Here are some questions to quietly ask yourself:

•When does the problem you’re fighting not happen?? Or, when does the thing you want to happen more frequently occur now?

•Ask the miracle question – you wake up in the morning and your problems are solved – what’s the first small sign that things have changed? Not the miracle itself, but something concrete you can work toward and the first small sign will do this for you.

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TIME TO SHARE

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Discuss what is working today to engage families in healthier lifestyles and how can you do more of it? Are there certain teachers that are more successful than others? Families? Some sites more effective than others?



Shape the Path– Build Habits

Example at Hardy Elementary School in TN

•New Principal at the lowest performing school

•The First Day: Expel a student!

•Students cursed at teachers

•Parents barged into classrooms to talk with their kids

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Shape the Path– Build Habits

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Fundamental Attribution Error

Avoid the Fundamental Attribution Error –people have a systematic tendency to ignore the situational forces that shape other people’s behavior; we tend to attribute people’s behavior to who they are rather that to the situation they are in;

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Quote on CHANGE

“A good change leader never thinks, ”Why are these people acting so badly? They must be bad people.” A change leader thinks, ‘how can I set up a situation that brings out the good in these people.”

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CELEBRATE CHANGE!

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Laughing Statistics

• Laughing increase heart rate and calorie expenditure by 20%

• The longer you laugh the greater the effects

• Just 10 minutes of laughing a day can burn up to 40 calories.

That’s 4 calories for every minute of Laughter!

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Resources

• IMIL Workshops:

‐Cultural Horizons

‐Engaging Families & Staff

• PFCE Framework

• SWITCH – How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip heath and Dan Heath

• www.psychologytoday.com

• Head Start Body Start

• www.choosykids.com43


QUESTIONS & EVALUATIONS

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THANK YOU!

Tim Adams & Delphia Roberts‐BrownHead Start Training and Technical Assistance Center of OhioEarly Childhood Education Specialists (ECES)STG International, Inc.

[email protected]‐653‐6315Delphia.Roberts‐[email protected]‐956‐8958

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PFCE Family Outcomes

Stop #1 Stop #2 Stop #3 Stop #4 Stop #5 Stop # 6 Stop # 7

1. Family Well‐being

2. Positive Parent‐Child Relationships

3. Families as Lifelong Educators

4. Families as Learners

5. Family Engagement in Transitions

6. Family Connections with Community

7. Families as Advocates and Leaders

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