January 11th - January 15th
Theme: Planning Styles
Skill Building: Creating Plans
Person-Centered Thinking & Safety
Monday January 11, 2021
Photo by Danielle Macinnes from Unsplash
Today is: National Clean Your Desk Day
Declutter, Organize, say goodbye to junk and recycle! Want to find out more? Check out the link at the end of the page with a full article from National Today.
!!BIG ANNOUCEMENT!!
Friday, January 15th is National Hat Day.
WEAR YOUR BEST HAT!
Check In - 5 Mins
Hi, how was your weekend? Share something you did at home over the first week of 2021
Introduce The Week (5 min)
Theme: Different Planning Styles
Skill Builder: Using a personal calendar/planner
Different Planning Styles
This week we will discuss, explore, and review different styles of planning you can use in life.
We will also start thinking about how a personal calendar helps feel organized and ready for anything.
Show & Share: How do you plan? – (5-10 Mins)
Have you, or someone you know well, used a personal planner or calendar? Did you use it daily, weekly or monthly? Discuss and discover ways your peers might have used calendars in the past.
Tomorrow’s Show & Share:
Review the week’s topic: Planning styles. Touch on the planning styles and briefly describe each one: What type of planning style did you find most interesting from yesterday’s show and share? Why did you find it interesting?
Thematic Activity 01 (5-10 min)
Review this infographic of personality and time management strategies. Planning is also called time management. Can you see your own habits in these descriptions? Are you a Butterfly, a Driver, a Professor, a Creative or a Philosopher? Your personality will shape how you like to plan and organize your time.
PRESENTERS: remember you can click the magnifier or us CTRL and the + key together to increase the size of the image on screen.
Review the formats of calendars—see images below:
Body Break! Stretch, Drink Water look away from the screen! (5 Minutes)
Thematic Activity 02: Explore Planning Styles – (10-15 mi)
Below are 3 distinct planning styles. Review and discuss.
In goal oriented planning we plan time and activities based on an end goal. We use calendars to put in the completion points we need to reach on the way to our goals. Which part of the infographic is related to putting stuff in a calendar?
*Optional Level Up
Did you know that a big part of building intelligent robots is teaching them to plan and achieve goals? That is what would make them more like us!
Goal Oriented Action Planning in AI
Directional Planning:
Sometimes while we are working towards something, we use plans that are a map.
Here are some goal oriented maps. How can a map help us plan tasks and habits to put on a calendar?
Map 01 PRESENTERS: CTRL and the 0 (zero) key will make the image the correct size if it's too big
Task Based Planning:
Many people enjoy planning by a to-do list. Simply checking off their tasks (or to-dos) for the day is how they like to plan their days, weeks, months, and even a full year! A task planner is someone who likes to make lists of what they need to do at that moment.
How to write a better to do list
Presenter Notes: Do you have any examples of to- do lists? Have you ever tried to use them in a plan? This is a good time to share examples of how you may keep track of tasks.
Spontaneous Planning :
We can be organized AND spontaneous. We focus on what is going on this second but still keep our eyes on goals for the day or week. Each moment we choose things to do and finish that get us closer to our daily or weekly goals.
To succeed with this type of planning we need to be aware of the clock and what we can do right away.
Benefits of Planning vs Being Spontaneous
Body Break: Stretch, Drink Water look away from the screen 5 Minutes
Workspace Safety - 15 mins
Have you inspected your work space for safety recently? If you have what are some safety tips that you would like to share with the group? Let's Bain Storm!
Presenter Note: Use the Annotate option/white board to track responses.
Work Place Safety Tips
Prevent Slips:
Wear proper footwear, even when inside, avoid slippery socks. Clean up any spills from the ground right away.
Prevent Trips:
Keep your working space floor clear of toys, bags, cords or small objects to prevent tripping. Avoid looking down at your phone while walking around the house to prevent falling or walking into a walk.
Prevent Falls down the Stairs:
Always, us the handrail when going up and down the stairs. Remember to turn on the light and try not to carry too much, just in case you stumble you have one hand available.
Beside trips and falls, we often forget about electrical safety. Do you remember last month's tips with electrical safety?
Presenters: Using the raise hand feature ask participants to raise hand to give some examples of electrical safety.
Review this Image of Electrical Safety Tips
What date will you inspect your work space this month?
Share with the group how often you would like to inspect your space, which Frequency? Monthly, Weekly, Every other week? Everyday? Share with us!
Presenters: You can take a poll by asking participants to raise their hand per each frequency above.
Level Up:
6 Reason’s why you should use a daily planner
Video on 5 tips to work from home safely
What did we learn today?
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What are we doing this afternoon?
Civics & Community Awareness
Tuesday, January 12th, 2020
Photo by Miti on Unsplash
Today is: National Hot Tea Day
The History of Tea - From Lipton
Many of us start our mornings with a hot cuppa. Today we celebrate hot teas from around the world.
!!BIG REMINDER!!
Friday, January 15th is National Hat Day.
WEAR YOUR BEST HAT!
Check-In - 5 Minutes
Good morning! Today happens to be National Hot Tea Day? Do you like tea? What about pizza or letter writing? This week is also Letter Writing Week and Pizza Week!
Show & Share: Our Planning Styles - 10 Minutes
Today we are going to share our planning stiles and how we use them. Share any examples of what you'd like!
Presenter Note: By the end of today's meeting have each client identify one planning style from yesterday's activities that they would like to implement their 2021 plan. If they do not use one of the planning styles from yesterday, have them describe their own planning style and how they would like to do it.
Tomorrow’s show and share:
What relaxation techniques have you used at home in the last year? Get ready to share your tips and tricks.
Find a Virtual Event in Your Community - 25 minutes
Today we want to explore using and finding online calendars for places that offer virtual tours or videos.
Questions to think about while brainstorming:
- What types of places do you enjoy visiting (what did you enjoy before COVID)?
- Do you like museums or community centers? Do you prefer visiting city halls, county parks, or the mall? Where else do you like to go?
- What types of events do you enjoy attending? Do you like sporting events?
- What about plays or dance recitals?
- Have you ever gone to watch a movie in a park?
- Or do you prefer festivals and parades?
- Anything else?
Presenter Note:
Review places that you attended with participants. Use these places to brainstorm with the participants on places they previously visited during face-to-face program
As a group, decide on 3-5 activities or locations that you would like to research online as a team.
Use an Internet search engine of your choice, and explore the websites of local (or non-local!) places and events that you decided upon as a group.
!!REMEMBER!!: It is important to stay home right now because of the pandemic! Many events have moved online and are available 24/7 from the safety of your home. Are you able to find any upcoming virtual events within your local community?
Make a note of any pre-recorded or upcoming events that you are interested in. Are there any that you can try to attend as a group?
Here are a couple links of places around each district to help get you started. Feel free to use these or not — the choice is yours!
South District: See Monterey Website
Central District: City of San Jose Website
North District: City of Santa Clara Website
Santa Cruz District: City of Santa Cruz Website
Other examples of places that might offer a virtual tour or live footage:
Live Camera List from the San Diego Zoo
The Entire List of Museums Offering Virtual Tours
Body Break (5 minutes)
Get away from that computer screen and move however you like!
Presenter Note: Ask participants which places and events did they find today? Are there any upcoming virtual events that you want to attend? If so, write them down so you don’t forget because we are going to explore one of these virtual places on Friday!
What did we learn today?
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What are we doing this afternoon?
Well Being and Social Connection
Wednesday January 13th, 2021
Photo by Jane Palash from Unsplash
Optional Tech Tip: Zoom Update: Where and how to check for them on my PC.
Presenters: Use the link above to help everyone learn how to look for updates on Zoom. Be sure to press the large Present button in the upper right corner for full screen view. If you feel like your group may already know how to do this or might want to do it another time, that is okay.Link will be up for the next week.
Today is: Korean American Day
The Guide to Korea Town in Los Angeles
"Today, I join my fellow Members of Congress to celebrate Korean Americans across the United States and their contributions to this country in all aspects of American life. Korean Americans have been a vital part of this nation since they first arrived in the U.S. on January 13, 1903 and have made immeasurable contributions as small business owners, military service members, faith leaders, doctors, artists, and elected officials. As Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), I have been proud to work with the Korean American community on so many critical issues, from fighting for the reunion of divided families to protecting Dreamers and securing citizenship for Korean adoptees. I wish the Korean American community in California and all across the nation a very happy Korean American Day!" - Congresswoman Judy Chu on Korean American Day 2020
!!BIG REMINDER!!
Friday, January 15th is National Hat Day.
WEAR YOUR BEST HAT!
Check In - Show & Share (15 Minutes)
Review the week’s theme and yesterday’s activity. Again, ask participants if they are leaning toward a planning style or if they are still thinking about the options.
Presenter Note: Ask participants about ways they have relaxed or kept active while being remote (Examples could be yoga, walks, meditation, reading, crafting, creating, etc. The possibilities of relaxation are truly endless!)
Ask participants ways in which they have used virtual spaces to socialize and used their face-to-face time online to relax.
- Have they been sharing what they are doing after program?
- Are you sharing book reviews online with peers? There are many things that you can do virtually
Tomorrow‘s Show & Share:
What do you like to do virtually? What have you discovered since we went remote that you find a lot of fun? Examples - Some people are enjoying watching Monterey Bay Aquariums video streams, others have discovered online games or communities.
Life Skills Stories (20 Minutes)
Working With Stress
Everyone deals with stress at some point in their life and we all react to stress differently. This week we will review a story about how one person dealt with stress and overcame their stress.
Presenter Note: For this week's social story we are focusing on different ways to work with stress and how to create ways virtually that participants can do this. Review the life skills story and ask questions that correspond at the end of the story.
Reacting to Stressful situations: Odd is Just a Word Social Skills Story
Covid Mitigation Moment (15 Minutes)
On Wednesdays we will always take a few minutes to discuss our Covid Mitigation moment. I know that we have spent a lot of time in the last year talking about ways to keep COVID-19 contained, but now is a better time than ever to review simple ways we can all help with battling Covid.
Social Distancing
Want to know two easy ways to protect yourself and those around you? Practicing social distancing and wear a cloth face covering when around others.
We will continue Covid Mitigation Moments each Wednesday!
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What did we learn today?
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What are we doing this afternoon?
Rights & Self Advocacy
Thursday January 14th, 2021
Photo by Sebastian Hermann on Unsplash
Optional Tech Tip: Zoom Update: Where and how to check for them on my PC.
Presenters: Use the link above to help everyone learn how to look for updates on Zoom. Be sure to press the large Present button in the upper right corner for full screen view. If you feel like your group may already know how to do this or might want to do it another time, that is okay.Link will be up for the next week.
Today is: Dress Up Your Pet Day
Since 2009, pet owners have been taking time to dress up with their pets of all kinds. Ensure that dressing up your pet is done both adorably AND safely!
If you have a pet at home that likes to throw on some shades or wear a coat you can share them tomorrow!
!!BIG REMINDER!!
TOMORROW IS NATIONAL HAT DAY
WEAR YOUR FAVORITE HAT!
Check In - Show & Share
What have you found online that is fun? - 15 Minutes
How has virtual programming helped us? What are ways that being able to “hang out” virtually has helped us stay connected?How we can plan to make virtual programming more accessible for their friends and other individuals? What are some ideas you have for the future?
Presenter Note:
Allow participants to share their experiences with attending virtual programming both positive and negative. Please keep note of anything interesting you find.
Tomorrow's Show & Share:
Review this Week
In true Friday fashion we will review this week. What did you find interesting? What did you learn? What sort of virtual tour or live camera did you like the most? Getting ready to wrap up the week and maybe share a little bit about what you are hoping to get done this weekend.
!!DON'T FORGET TO WEAR YOUR ABSOLUTE FAVORITE, FUNKY, OR FUNNY HAT!!
Planning For Virtual Meeting Challenges - 15 Minutes
Since going virtual, we've ran into a few challenges with our meeting spaces.
- What are some common issues that we have had with zoom?
- Microphone issues?
- Video Issues?
- What is the craziet issue you've had?
Identify the top 2 or 3 challenges to pre-plan a How- To Help Action Plan. Examples are below with some tips on how to trouble shoot them as inspiration
Examples of Zoom Call Issues:
Challenge examples: microphone unmuted, video not working, someone getting kicked out of a room, screen frozen, etc.
Presenter Note:
Ask participants to brainstorm different problems or challenges that we run into on zoom. After hearingr responses, describe that planning and strategizing our reactions to a challenge will help everyone attending program. Being patient and flexible, while planning ahead can be a big help!
How-To Help - Action Planning as a Team - 15 minutes
After deciding which challenges, the breakout rooms will create a task list for a challenge. An example challenge:
We see Bernie speaking, but his microphone is muted. What steps can we take to help?
Put them in order listing the first thing you do, which is realizing we can't hear Bernie! Your list will be numbered like this:
- We can't hear Bernie (or our participant)
- Step 2
- Step 3
- Step 4
Tasks lists don't have a limit, so any step big or small can be added. This will be the foundation of our proposed How - To Help.
Presenter Note: This task list can be created using Zoom annotation. Create a list of other challenging virtual events that occur on one side of the screen. On the other side of the screen, create a list of ways that we can plan to problem-solve these events.
As a break out team, come up with a three step How-To Help plan.
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What did we learn today?
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What are we doing this afternoon?
Knowledge & Fun
Friday January 15th, 2021
Photo by Bram Naus on Unsplash
Optional Tech Tip: Zoom Update: Where and how to check for them on my PC.
Presenters: Use the link above to help everyone learn how to look for updates on Zoom. Be sure to press the large Present button in the upper right corner for full screen view. If you feel like your group may already know how to do this or might want to do it another time, that is okay.Link will be up for the next week.
Today is: National Hat day!
400 Years of Hats in 3 Minutes
Check out the link above to see an evolution of 400 years of hats throughout history. Show off your favorite hat. Where'd you get it? Share examples of why hats
!!BIG REMINDER!!
NO PROGRAM MEETING MONDAY TO OBSERVE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY
See you Tuesday morning!
Links to MLK Day Resources
Kid President explains Dr. Martin Luther King
(3.5 min)
Traditional Documentary Presentation
(5 min)
Check In - Show & Share
What Did You Like Most This Week? (15 min)
Presenter Note: Do a quick run down of this week's topics with participants.
- Different Planning Styles (Goals, Action, Spontaneous Planning for example
- How-to?
- Virtual tour brainstorming?
Tuesday's Show & Share:
Share what you did over the 3 day weekend. Also be ready to talk about why you keep important dates and track them every year?
Virtual Exploration Intro – 10 Minutes
For Tuesday’s activity this week, we explored a few places in our communities that offer virtual tours, have virtual events occurring throughout the year.
Before we explore virtually today, what are activities that we would like to explore in the future?How can we use these resource to explore places we haven’t be able to explore while we have been working virtually?
Where can we virtually tour or explore right now? 25 Minutes
Time to explore the places offering virtual experiences from Tuesday's activity. Here are the links again
Presenter Note: There are resources below to use for virtually touring if needed. They include examples from Tuesday among others. Feel free to use any found on Tuesday or pick from one below.
Places to Explore Virtually
Virtually experience Walt Disney World Attractions, shows, hotels, monorails, and much more in a 360 degree interactive video.
Google's Arts & Culture page teamed up with over 2500 museums and locations from around the world. Locations include the Eiffel Tower, Nasa, and MoMA the Museum of Modern Art.
Arguably the most famous art museum on the planet, you can find art that includes the mysterious Mona Lisa and Egyptian artifacts all from your home
Monterey Bay Aquarium Live Cams
Keeping it a little closer to home, Monterey Bay Aquarium offers live camera feeds of fish, birds, and the ocean! The jellyfish cam is extra relaxing.
Introduce next week’s theme - 5 Minutes
Using planning styles to help us make our own plans and track our goals for the year with a babit tracker
!!!REMIND EVERYONE: NO PROGRAM MEETING ON MONDAY!!!
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What did we learn today?
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What are we doing this afternoon?
Choosing Fun Stuff to Do
Need some help deciding on an afternoon activity?
The activities are numbered. These numbers corrospond to brief activity descriptions listen in the linked document below.
