Adaptive Schools Training 2024-25

Adaptive Schools Training 2024-25

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.

Learner Outcomes

• 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.

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

Dates 
October 1 – RESCHEDULED, with new date added in February 
Nov. 13
Dec. 12
Jan. 9, 2025
Feb. 27, 2025 – new date added

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