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January 2019
Having Hard Conversations: A Deep Dive by Jennifer Abrams (2-day workshop)
As educational leaders and colleagues, we often come up against situations where difficult topics must be addressed - with supervisees, colleagues, parents or students. What do we know about the best strategies for those moments? What questions should we be asking ourselves before we speak, and what environments are best for when we do speak? Based on Jennifer's books, Having Hard Conversations and Hard Conversations Unpacked, and her work with conflict and interpersonal communication, this session will provide participants with…
Find out more »Having Hard Conversations: A Deep Dive by Jennifer Abrams (2-day workshop)
As educational leaders and colleagues, we often come up against situations where difficult topics must be addressed - with supervisees, colleagues, parents or students. What do we know about the best strategies for those moments? What questions should we be asking ourselves before we speak, and what environments are best for when we do speak? Based on Jennifer's books, Having Hard Conversations and Hard Conversations Unpacked, and her work with conflict and interpersonal communication, this session will provide participants with…
Find out more »Teacher Leaders 2018-2019
The programme will be facilitated by ESF senior leaders and international educators and is designed to investigate core aspects of leadership and management in schools. Participants will learn how to: 1) IMPROVE school outcomes by improving all levels of school leadership. 2) BUILD an enduring network of leaders who value sharing, support, collaboration and critique. 3) HELP teachers and middle leaders to pursue lines of inquiry that will improve their leadership. 4) DEEPEN the organisational learning across schools. Please note…
Find out more »Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar (4 days)
In the four-day Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar, participants will develop: - An increased capacity to initiate, develop and sustain high functioning groups - New lenses for diagnosing the stages and phases of group development - An expanded repertoire of practical facilitation tools - Understandings of when and how to engage groups in dialogue and discussion, the limitations, forms and values of each - Skills to move groups beyond consensus to common focus - Ways to value and use dissension,…
Find out more »Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar (4 days)
In the four-day Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar, participants will develop: - An increased capacity to initiate, develop and sustain high functioning groups - New lenses for diagnosing the stages and phases of group development - An expanded repertoire of practical facilitation tools - Understandings of when and how to engage groups in dialogue and discussion, the limitations, forms and values of each - Skills to move groups beyond consensus to common focus - Ways to value and use dissension,…
Find out more »February 2019
Teacher Leaders 2018-2019
The programme will be facilitated by ESF senior leaders and international educators and is designed to investigate core aspects of leadership and management in schools. Participants will learn how to: 1) IMPROVE school outcomes by improving all levels of school leadership. 2) BUILD an enduring network of leaders who value sharing, support, collaboration and critique. 3) HELP teachers and middle leaders to pursue lines of inquiry that will improve their leadership. 4) DEEPEN the organisational learning across schools. Please note…
Find out more »March 2019
Teacher Leaders 2018-2019
The programme will be facilitated by ESF senior leaders and international educators and is designed to investigate core aspects of leadership and management in schools. Participants will learn how to: 1) IMPROVE school outcomes by improving all levels of school leadership. 2) BUILD an enduring network of leaders who value sharing, support, collaboration and critique. 3) HELP teachers and middle leaders to pursue lines of inquiry that will improve their leadership. 4) DEEPEN the organisational learning across schools. Please note…
Find out more »Choreography of Presentation by Kendall Zoller
This presentation skills training will allow participants to learn and be able to: • Demonstrate the skills to establish credibility • Practice the patterns for creating rapport one-on-one and with groups • Read a group to determine their levels of involvement and connection with the topics. Including how to recognize thinking modalities and the matching of language to support thinking and rapport • Explain how to balance the task and processes of the curriculum with the development of the group…
Find out more »Choreography of Presentation by Kendall Zoller
This presentation skills training will allow participants to learn and be able to: • Demonstrate the skills to establish credibility • Practice the patterns for creating rapport one-on-one and with groups • Read a group to determine their levels of involvement and connection with the topics. Including how to recognize thinking modalities and the matching of language to support thinking and rapport • Explain how to balance the task and processes of the curriculum with the development of the group…
Find out more »May 2019
Teacher Leaders 2018-2019
The programme will be facilitated by ESF senior leaders and international educators and is designed to investigate core aspects of leadership and management in schools. Participants will learn how to: 1) IMPROVE school outcomes by improving all levels of school leadership. 2) BUILD an enduring network of leaders who value sharing, support, collaboration and critique. 3) HELP teachers and middle leaders to pursue lines of inquiry that will improve their leadership. 4) DEEPEN the organisational learning across schools. Please note…
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