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Groups of 25 educators train to be facilitators in a Professional Development program. Sessions alternate between training in the protocol (15 hours over 5 sessions), and implementing the protocol (30 hours). Training Session #1 establishes the Pre-Text protocol: read aloud, ask questions of the text, propose and make art to interpret the text, reflect on the process, and go off on a tangent. Training Sessions #2, #3, #4, #5 are led by different participants who repeat the entire protocol, proposing a new text and creative activity, in order to appropriate the methodology and simulate the dynamic of a classroom.

Protocol for Trainer

1. 1. Training Workshop 
      • Announce a new training workshop of 5 sessions. Announcement of Pre-Texts Training
      • Report on the training workshop: 1 page of logistics and 5 for the workshop, 1 per session  Report on Training Workshop, Eng.
   2. Administer Mental Health Survey (Digital: English ,  Spanish; Printable: Italian , Spanish , English.) 4 times
      • At the beginning of Session #1
      • At the beginning of Session #3
      • At the end of session #5
      • 30 days or more after the training
   3. Implementation Reports
      • Evidence folders Report Form
      • Folders of Implementation by new facilitators include:
        1. Plans for implementation, syllabus.
        2. Coordinate required texts with creative activities.
        3. Wellbeing surveys, administered 4 times: before implementation, midway, at end, after several months.
           1. For children [Español, spa. 
           2. For youth [Español, esp.
           3. For adults (Español, spa,)
        4. Calendar of follow-ups:
           1. Weekly “What did we do?” meetings to address challenges and share experiences. 
           2. Family Nights, for students to facilitate activities with parents and others.
        5. Reports on each session Report Form

A. Checklist for each session of implementation:

1. 1. 1. Do participants sit in circles or ovals and see each other?
      2. Do participants use their hands (draw, sew, etc.) while they listen to reading?
      3. Does everyone ask a pointed question to the text and post it anonymously?
      4. Does everyone “adopt” a question to post a response by searching the text?
      5. Do participants invite one another in a chain to consider several responses?
      6. Do students propose activities and develop proposals with the group?
      7. Does the teacher participate in proposing and creating with the students?
      8. Do participants use the text as material for the creative activities?  
      9. Do sessions end with universal participation to reflect on “What did we do?”
      10. Do students “go off on a tangent” or a “leaf” to post a text in the next session?

B. Qualitative documentation [interviews with students and families]

Protocol for New Facilitators seeking Certification:

• Facilitators-in-training participate in the 5 sessions, 15 hours, of capacity building.
• Facilitators-in-training submit evidence of good implementation during 30 hours.
• Portfolios are reviewed by trainers for certification.
• Re-Certification, every 2 years by the same presentation process to a trainer. 

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