Got A Minute?
Need a quick refresher on a particular topic? This video series address common concerns and issues at typical urban school sites. These segments are designed for those with only a minute or two to spare!
Organize A Meeting
Meetings need to be meaningful and effective. Planning them effectively ensures thats participants stay engaged and outcomes are realized. Using Adaptive schools and Coalition of Essential Schools strategies you will learn how to create meetings people want to come to.
Conferencing
Conversations for growth and development take practice. In this session you will learn an effective way to have a conversation that will result in the improvement. Using paraphrasing, going visual and 3 rd point you will learn to refine and reinforce in a conversation that gets results.
Transformative Schools
Self-awareness and effective teams with necessary skill sets are two of the essential components necessary to begin the journey of a transformative school. Develop collaboration and learn the power of teams. Collaboration is key to transformative schools. Learn how to develop teams and enhance professional relationships.
Active Participation
Effective teaching requires active participation. This participation comes in many forms and includes engagement and checking for understanding strategies. Come learn covert and overt ways to make this happen.
Paraphrasing
The gift of communication! Learn hoe to communicate to a person that they are heard and understood. Paraphrasing is the pathway to increasing psychological permission and development of relational trust.
Culture
Quick and focused ways to build and sustain culture are outlined in this session. Building and sustaining a positive culture is vital in our work so come learn ways to do this.
Objectives
Effective objectives are part of great lesson. Objectives help teachers plan and students learn. Learn the 5 parts of an objective in this session.
Use of Protocols
Protocols are tools in our trade that help us run meetings, build community, make decisions and work together. In this session you will review the process for selecting protocols and match them for the task you have at hand.
Delivering Difficult News
There are patterns that can be used that can reduce resistance and increase openness when delivering difficult news. Skills such as third point, credible voice and other patterns will be explored in this session so that when you have to deliver bad news, you are prepared.
3RD Point
The use of non-verbal skills to improve communication is imperative as we work with others. In this session learn how to use this skill to re-direct energy and more.