WE Educator Resource Bank

Please find below free resources designed for educators to be used in a wide variety of scenarios. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

 

Use of Time Inventory

This resource is a long standing tradition in Walkabout’s Time Management class.

 

Walkabout: Searching for the right passage from Childhood and School by Maurice Gibbons

One of the articles that started it all. Maurice Gibbons writes in 1977 about Walkabout.

 

Stress Management Part 1

An Introduction to stress management at Walkabout.

 

Sample Wilderness Protocol

An Introduction to the kinds of protocols used during the Wilderness Challenge Area.

Validations

The Validations Envelope protocol is a process used to engender goodwill in a community.

 

An Introduction to Town Meeting

A guide for teachers to introduce the concept of Town Meeting, a student governance model.

 

Stress Management Part 2

Part 2 to our series on stress management.

 

Fishbowl Protocol

This fishbowl protocol was historically utilized during the Wilderness Challenge Area but can be adopted by any community of people who are rejoining a larger group after having had separate small group experience.

Forced Choice

Forced choice is a group activity introduced during the Walkabout Student Orientation

 

Setting Individual Student Goals

A guide to assist in the development of individual student goals.

 
 

Stress Management Part 3

Part 3 to our series on stress management.

 

Getting Real About Goals Protocol

This protocol allows students to plan for success and to reflect on outcomes to be built upon or avoided in the future.

New and Goods

New and Goods is how we start every day, a tradition that goes back to the creation of the model.

 

Intro to Empathy Data

An introduction to empathy data, a part of the Design Thinking process.

 
 

Master Activities List

A large collection of ice-breakers, team building activities and conversation starters to be used in a variety of settings.