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