Session Details

The Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar presents a productive, practical set of ideas and tools to develop collaborative groups, allowing them to become effective and better equipped to resolve complex student learning issues. The work of the Adaptive Schools Seminar is to develop the resources and capacities of the organization and of individuals to cohesively respond to the changing needs of students and society.

This is a 4 day training.

Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) Tenets
Safe, Engaged, and Supported

Dates 
October 1 - (rescheduled)
Day 1 - November 13
Day 2 - December 12
Day 3 - January 9 
Day 4 - February 27

Time
8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Location
Char-Em ISD Charlevoix

Audience
Teachers grades pre K-12, administrators, counselors, ISD staff, paraprofessionals, support staff, and community partners/agencies

Instructors
Pam Ciganick, Char-Em ISD Associate Trainer for Adaptive Schools

• 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.
• An understanding of when and how to engage groups in dialogue and discussion, and the limitations, forms, and values of each.
• Skills to move groups beyond consensus to common focus.
• Ways to value and use dissension, argument, and conflict.
• Strategies for keeping group members/students on track, on topic, energized, and resourceful.

Pending approval, State Continuing Education Clock Hours (SCECHs) will be offered  for this training. Further information will be provided by the course instructor at the session.