Adaptive Schools Agendas and Outcomes
Four Day Overview:
Day 1—Entering the Territory
Day 2—Developing Identity and Capacity
Day 3—Transforming Meetings
Day 4—Sustaining Community
Day 1:
Agenda
- Welcome
- Elements of Professional Community
- Becoming Adaptive
- Two Ways of Talking
- Organize and Integrate
Outcomes—Participants will have:
- An understanding of research findings regarding professional community in schools
- An understanding of the WHAT, WHY, and HOW of becoming adaptive
- Structures and processes for collaborative conversations
Day 2:
Agenda
- Welcome and Inclusion
- Principles of Complex Systems
- Group Member Capabilities
- Working Agreements
- Norms of Collaboration
- Organize and Integrate
Outcomes—Participants will have:
- An understanding of the goal of the Adaptive Schools Seminar
- An extended repertoire of facilitation strategies
- An understanding of four group member capabilities
- An understanding of the Seven Norms of Collaboration
- Increased skills with authentic paraphrasing
Day 3:
Agenda
- Refresh and Reconnect
- Successful Meetings
- Energy Sources
- Posing Questions
- Structures to Successful Meetings
- Organize and Integrate
Outcomes—Participants will have:
- A framing of meetings as learning opportunities
- Structures for successful meetings
- An understanding of how to integrate Norms of Collaboration in meetings
- Increased skills posing mediative questions
Day 4:
Agenda
- Welcome and Inclusion
- Meeting Standards
- Design the Surround
- Prioritizing Next Steps
- New Beginnings
Outcomes—Participants will have:
- Structures and standards for successful meetings
- Perspectives and tools for discussion
- Tools, concepts, and strategies to transfer from workshop to work place