StrengthsBasedSchoolDistrict_Mk_Broch_en-US_010617_bk CliftonStrengths: Maximize Your Student Potential
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All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths. TOM RATH, STRENGTHSFINDER 2.0 What does it mean to be a Strengths-Based School? Schools and districts across the U.S. are partnering with Gallup to develop strengths-based cultures. These pioneering schools are grounded in a philosophy of identifying and maximizing an individual s strengths and talents. These are schools where students, staff and their leaders know what they do best and have the opportunity to do those things every day. Gallup defines strength as the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance in a specific area. A strength is enhanced by using one s talents and investing time in those talents by practicing and developing skills. What does a Strengths-Based School look like? Students know their top three-to-five strengths and are engaged in activities that allow them to use their strengths every day throughout their academic experience and beyond, with applications to life skills and goal setting. Educators know the individual strengths of their students, so they can leverage those strengths and maximize every students potential to succeed. Educators teach with their strengths and use their strengths to collaborate meaningfully with colleagues. Leaders are equipped to lead with their strengths, maximizing the performance of those they lead. Parents are aware of their child s unique talent combinations so they can contribute meaningfully to the path that ensures school, career and a personal sense of belonging and achievement with the overall goal of a life well-lived. Why become a Strengths-Based School? To focus on what is strong rather than what is wrong To boost student and teacher engagement in measurable ways To individualize the approach to student learning through social and emotional channels To maximize the talent of every single human being who works or studies in their schools 1 Copyright 2016 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved.
How do you become a Strengths-Based School? Contact your Gallup Education Consultant to customize a rollout plan for your school/district. Components may include: -- Gain professional development experience by introducing your staff to strengths and the principles and philosophies that define a strengths-based school culture. -- Identify strengths champions who can implement and energize strengths-based principles and obtain certification from Gallup s Certified Strengths Coaching program. -- Get the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment for your staff and students: StrengthsExplorer assessment Ages 10-14 StrengthsQuest assessment Ages 15 through adult (combines Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment with education-specific reports.) -- Run a strengths-based parenting class to empower parents as strengths partners. - - Make a strengths-based philosophy an integral part of individual, team and organizational behavior Copyright 2016 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved. 2
The Clifton StrengthsFinder Assessment for Education StrengthsExplorer and StrengthsQuest Gallup offers two unique StrengthsFinder platforms specifically for use in education. These platforms offer the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessments at a discounted education rate of $9.99 (versus the standard rate of $15).* These platforms are designed to support the use of StrengthsFinder with students and education staff. StrengthsExplorer is for ages 10-14, ideal for middle school students. StrengthsQuest is for ages 14 and up, ideal for high school students and staff *If you are purchasing over 250 codes (or combining the purchase of codes/books with other Gallup strengths services), then please contact jenny_geiler@gallup.com or 402-938-6115 for an all-inclusive customized cost proposal. Gallup K-12 services to accompany StrengthsFinder code purchases include: Gallup-Delivered Professional Development (half- and full-day options) Strengths Discovery Day Teach with Your Strengths Strengths Leadership Workshop for Principals/Coaches/Leaders Strengths-Based Education Teach with Your Strengths School Package Gallup-Certified Coach Certification (train-the-trainer certification) Strengths Coaching Starter Kits Gallup-Delivered One-on-one Strengths Coaching Sessions Course Enrollments 3 Copyright 2016 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved.
OTHER CUSTOMIZED GALLUP EDUCATION CONSULTING SERVICES StrengthsExplorer (Ages 10-14) Middle School The Clifton Youth StrengthsExplorer Designed for students aged 10 to 14, the StrengthsExplorer assessment identifies each student s three strongest emerging talents. The assessment includes explanations of top three talents, strategies to encourage growth and action items to help teachers, students and their parents leverage strengths in the classroom and in life. The platform also provides access to the Student Strengths Workbook, Parent Manual and Educator/Leader Activity Book and can be paired with Gallup s half and full-day professional development workshops for teachers and parents. Clifton Youth StrengthsExplorer Theme Descriptions Achieving: You have more energy and more goals than other people. You love a sense of accomplishment. Caring: In your heart, helping other people is very important. You want to make the world better by helping people in small ways or big ways. Competing: You see many things in life as a game, and you feel great joy when you win. You truly hate to lose because you are always striving for first place. Confidence: You believe in yourself and what you can do. This helps you take on challenges because you feel sure you can succeed. Dependability: Trust is important to you, and you care about being seen as responsible and trustworthy. People count on you to do what you say you will do. When you make a promise, you mean to keep it. Discoverer: A thinker and learner, you are excited about exploring ideas and making connections. You like to ask the questions How? and Why? Future Thinker: Your mind loves to think and dream about the future. You are a person who thinks about what is possible, not what is impossible. Organizer: Scheduling, planning, and organizing your world makes life better. People count on you to get the details right and pull a plan together. Presence: You were born to be at the front of the room telling stories and taking the lead. Other people watch you and listen to you. Relating: You like to start friendships and keep them for a long time maybe even your whole life. You widen the circle of friends for yourself and others. The Clifton Youth StrengthsExplorer assessment is designed to help students aged 10 to 14 discover and develop their unique strengths to become their best selves. StrengthsExplorer provides a targeted and purposeful approach to focusing on what is right, rather than what is wrong with students. It is designed to help students apply their strengths toward a meaningful goal. Copyright 2016 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved. 4
StrengthsQuest (Ages 14 to adult) High School Students & Staff The Clifton StrengthsFinder for Education StrengthsQuest is a platform designed specifically to support strengths in education and houses the Clifton StrengthsFinder an assessment that helps individuals to discover and develop their strengths for greater academic, career and personal success. The StrengthsQuest platform provides insights on how to use talents to achieve academic success, to explore careers and to strengthen leadership development. Reports include action items for development, Team Talent Maps and a comprehensive resource center to support building a strengths-based school. Clifton StrengthsFinder Strengths: Achiever: People exceptionally talented in the Achiever theme work hard and possess a great deal of stamina. They take immense satisfaction in being busy and productive. Activator: People exceptionally talented in the Activator theme can make things happen by turning thoughts into action. They are often impatient. Adaptability: People exceptionally talented in the Adaptability theme prefer to go with the flow. They tend to be now people who take things as they come and discover the future one day at a time. Analytical: People exceptionally talented in the Analytical theme search for reasons and causes. They have the ability to think about all the factors that might affect a situation. Arranger: People exceptionally talented in the Arranger theme can organize, but they also have a flexibility that complements this ability. They like to determine how all of the pieces and resources can be arranged for maximum productivity. Belief: People exceptionally talented in the Belief theme have certain core values that are unchanging. Out of these values emerges a defined purpose for their lives. Command: People exceptionally talented in the Command theme have presence. They can take control of a situation and make decisions. Communication: People exceptionally talented in the Communication theme generally find it easy to put their thoughts into words. They are good conversationalists and presenters. Competition: People exceptionally talented in the Competition theme measure their progress against the performance of others. They strive to win first place and revel in contests. Connectedness: People exceptionally talented in the Connectedness theme have faith in the links among all things. They believe there are few coincidences and that almost every event has meaning. Consistency: People exceptionally talented in the Consistency theme are keenly aware of the need to treat people the same. They try to treat everyone with equality by setting up clear rules and adhering to them. 5 Copyright 2016 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved.
Context: People exceptionally talented in the Context theme enjoy thinking about the past. They understand the present by researching its history. Deliberative: People exceptionally talented in the Deliberative theme are best described by the serious care they take in making decisions or choices. They anticipate obstacles. Developer: People exceptionally talented in the Developer theme recognize and cultivate the potential in others. They spot the signs of each small improvement and derive satisfaction from evidence of progress. Discipline: People exceptionally talented in the Discipline theme enjoy routine and structure. Their world is best described by the order they create. Empathy: People exceptionally talented in the Empathy theme can sense other people s feelings by imagining themselves in others lives or situations. Focus: People exceptionally talented in the Focus theme can take a direction, follow through and make the corrections necessary to stay on track. They prioritize, then act. Futuristic: People exceptionally talented in the Futuristic theme are inspired by the future and what could be. They energize others with their visions of the future. Harmony: People exceptionally talented in the Harmony theme look for consensus. They don t enjoy conflict; rather, they seek areas of agreement. Ideation: People exceptionally talented in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena. Includer: People exceptionally talented in the Includer theme accept others. They show awareness of those who feel left out and make an effort to include them. Individualization: People exceptionally talented in the Individualization theme are intrigued with the unique qualities of each person. They have a gift for figuring out how different people can work together productively. Input: People exceptionally talented in the Input theme have a craving to know more. Often they like to collect and archive all kinds of information. Intellection: People exceptionally talented in the Intellection theme are characterized by their intellectual activity. They are introspective and appreciate intellectual discussions. Learner: People exceptionally talented in the Learner theme have a great desire to learn and want to continuously improve. The process of learning, rather than the outcome, excites them. Maximizer: People exceptionally talented in the Maximizer theme focus on strengths as a way to stimulate personal and group excellence. They seek to transform something strong into something superb. Positivity: People exceptionally talented in the Positivity theme have contagious enthusiasm. They are upbeat and can get others excited about what they are going to do. Relator: People exceptionally talented in the Relator theme enjoy close relationships with others. They find deep satisfaction in working hard with friends to achieve a goal. Copyright 2016 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved. 6
Responsibility: People exceptionally talented in the Responsibility theme take psychological ownership of what they say they will do. They are committed to stable values such as honesty and loyalty. Restorative: People exceptionally talented in the Restorative theme are adept at dealing with problems. They are good at figuring out what is wrong and resolving it. Self-Assurance: People exceptionally talented in the Self-Assurance theme feel confident in their ability to manage their own lives. They possess an inner compass that gives them confidence that their decisions are right. Significance: People exceptionally talented in the Significance theme want to be very important in others eyes. They are independent and want to be recognized. Strategic: People exceptionally talented in the Strategic theme create alternative ways to proceed. Faced with any given scenario, they can quickly spot the relevant patterns and issues. Woo: People exceptionally talented in the Woo theme love the challenge of meeting new people and winning them over. They derive satisfaction from breaking the ice and making a connection with someone. 7 Copyright 2016 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved.
Strengths Based Parenting About The Book Strengths Based Parenting doesn t prescribe one right way to parent. Instead, author Mary Reckmeyer empowers parents to embrace their individual parenting style by discovering and developing their own and their children s talents and strengths. With real-life stories, practical advice backed by Gallup data, and access to the Clifton StrengthsFinder and Clifton Youth StrengthsExplorer assessments, Strengths Based Parenting has the power to change how the world views parenting. Strengths Based Parenting is grounded in decades of Gallup research on strengths psychology including assessments of nearly 1 million young people and highlighted in Gallup s national bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0. Gallup knows that focusing on talents and strengths can improve the quality of people s lives. More than 14 million people have taken the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment to discover their unique combination of talents and strengths. Also available for your school/district: Contact your Gallup Education representative to purchase books in bulk Certify in-house facilitators to deliver Strengths-Based Parenting Professional Development Start a Parent University course Host an in-district event with the author Experience one-on-one coaching via phone with a Gallup Strengths-Based Parenting consultant Copyright 2016 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved. 8
Teach With Your Strengths How Great Teachers Inspire Their Students What do great teachers do differently? Mountains of research point to this remarkable fact: While their styles and approaches may differ, all great teachers make the most of their natural talents. Here s something else: Great teachers don t strive to be well-rounded. They know that fixing their weaknesses doesn t work it only produces mediocrity. Worse, it diverts time and attention from what they naturally do well. In Teach With Your Strengths, you ll hear from great teachers, many of whom reveal their unorthodox and sure to be controversial approaches. You ll gain key insights gleaned from 40 years of research into great teaching. And, you ll take an online assessment that reveals your Signature Themes of talent. As you read this groundbreaking book, you ll discover your own innate talents as a teacher. And you ll learn how to liberate those talents to inspire the next generation of students. 9 Copyright 2016 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved.
How to Purchase StrengthsExplorer & StrengthsQuest Codes To purchase up to 250 codes (without any other services): Shop StrengthsQuest: http://shop.gallup.com/strengthsquest Shop StrengthsExplorer: http://shop.gallup.com/strengthsexplorer The first time you visit, please register as a new customer and then follow the simple prompts to place your order. Please select that you are purchasing the code(s) for a group/organization/ institution. This will allow you to request optional administrative access to students StrengthsFinder results. If this is a new order and/or you want to create a new BUID (alpha-numeric identifier) group, please select New Order. If you have ordered previously and know the BUID, select Reorder. Please have your BUID name and number available if you select Reorder. If you do not have a BUID name and number, Gallup will create one for you when you order. Select Quantity, add to cart and proceed to checkout and follow remaining steps. Paying at Gallup Store w/ Purchase Order (PO) We do not use an invoicing system, only a PO and credit card-based system. In order to receive an invoice before payment, please process the order as normal, select PO, write obtaining PO in that spot and complete the order. When you have the PO, please send it and the order number to gallup_store@gallup.com and we will get your order released. Please understand that the codes are not processed until the PO is received. For purchasing inquiries, please email gallup_store@gallup.com or call 1-800-426-0725 during 9:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m., Central Standard Time. For platform technical support, StrengthsQuest/Explorer support is available 24 hours a day from 6:00 p.m., Sunday 5:00 p.m., Friday, Central Standard Time. Call 1-888-211-4049. For personal assistance on building the right solution, please contact Jenny Geiler, Gallup Education, 402-938-6115, jenny_geiler@gallup.com. Copyright 2016 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved. 10