Christine Zimmerman and Angela Rau are looking forward to co presenting Unveiling Strengths: Navigating Beyond Wishful Thinking and Persisting in the Face of Adversity at the Arkansas Home Visiting Network Conference.

Join us at the Parents as Teachers International Conference for the workshop: Unveiling STrengths: Navigating the Hope in HOPE with Christine Zimmerman and Angela Rau.

Go beyond the superficiality of toxic positivity, embracing genuine strengths-based dialogue.

Register through Parents as Teachers: https:/register.parentsasteachersconference.org/event/2024/summary

Join me at the Michigan Home Visiting Conference!

https://mhviconference.com/

Adaptive Schools is coming to Early Childhood Investment Corporation July 18-19 and August 8 -9 and are opening registration to interested partners! The cost for outside participants is $400 and includes the Adaptive Schools Learning Guide.

Step into a world of game-changing insights with the Adaptive Schools/Organizations Seminar. It's not your average seminar; it's a practical toolbox overflowing with strategies and tools to supercharge your collaborative groups. Discover the power of collective identity, fine-tune your facilitation skills, and dive into innovative approaches to efficient teamwork that thrives even in complexity. Walk away with the know-how to ramp up group member engagement, have efficient and productive dialogue, and make valuable decisions by tapping into the collective brilliance of your group. This seminar isn't just a knowledge booster; it's your ticket to unleashing the full potential of your team.

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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, argument and conflict

• Strategies for keeping group members on track, on topic, energized and resourceful

Interested? Please email Jenn Rountree at jrountree@ecic4kids.org

This workshop will ground participants in the purpose of coaching and the coach identity that supports the coaching process. Practice deep listening and thought provoking questions that supports transformation.

 Experienced leaders understand that systems are complex, unpredictable, and occasionally messy. With this understanding, leaders strive to create optimal conditions for their teams to thrive. They actively participate in meetings, lead discussions, provide guidance to groups, nurture team development, and serve as sources of energy and morale for the groups they support. It's crucial for leaders to be intentional and clear about the mindsets that facilitate navigating and fostering productive teams. Mindsets shape our perspectives, understanding, and behaviors. This workshop will introduce five mindsets aimed at bolstering collaboration and productivity within teams.

Monthly facilitated book study using Lemons to Lemonade: Resolving Problems in Workshops, Meetings, and PLC’s by Bob Garmston and Diane Zimmerman.

Book Description:

Prevent meetings from descending into aimless rambling or counterproductive conflicts that end up wasting everybody′s valuable time. This resource gives you a playbook to help anyone confidently lead group discussions so that problems get solved, not created. The authors, both veteran educators and experts in group dynamics, detail:

• How to prepare yourself to facilitate the discussion and keep it on task

• Best practices for squashing conflict without wounding pride

• Methods for dealing with "interrupters," "subject-changers," disputes, personal attacks, and other time-waster events

This group is closed. Please contact me for information about starting a group in your organization.

It’s Your Turn Teachers as Facilitators. This workshop is not only for teachers but anyone in the role of facilitating meetings with peers. It is focused on the unique challenges that come with collaborative work. There is a delicate role of having responsibility for task completion without the authority to require participation of co—workers. This training is focused on five mindsets that support the facilitator and the groups resourcefulness. Mindsets inform how one sees, understands, and behaves. Mindsets greatly impact effective facilitation, engagement, and motivation to get work done.

This workshop is at capacity. Please reach out to schedule a workshop at your organization.

Parents as Teachers Group Reflective Supervision offers facilitated peer support to supervisors of home visiting programs through LearningWorks, LLC.

Peer support offers individuals an opportunity to connect and share experiences and learning with others seeing beyond individual lenses. Reflective practice offers opportunities to explore identity, strengths, challenges, perceptions, assumptions, and beliefs that influence decisions and actions every day. Reflective practice provides space to clarify goals and integrate skills. It supports individuals and teams to become more flexible and adaptive as they work in complex, ever-changing systems.

11 sessions will occur monthly creating space for supervisors to reflect on their experiences as a supervisor. Share learning and support each other around challenges. Peer supervisor reflection is loosely structured to support supervisor driven topics each month.

If you meet the registration qualifications, register on the Parents as Teachers website or to get support with accessibility needs.

Registration is at capacity. I am available to facilitate reflective practice groups for your organization.

It’s Your Turn Teachers as Facilitators. This workshop is not only for teachers but anyone in the role of facilitating meetings with peers. It is focused on the unique challenges that come with collaborative work. There is a delicate role of having responsibility for task completion without the authority to require participation of co—workers. This training is focused on five mindsets that support the facilitator and the groups resourcefulness. Mindsets inform how one sees, understands, and behaves. Mindsets greatly impact effective facilitation, engagement, and motivation to get work done.

This workshop is at capacity. Please reach out to schedule a workshop at your organization.

The Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar presents a productive, practical set of ideas and tools for developing collaborative groups in becoming effective and better equipped to resolve complex issues in schools and organizations. The work of the Adaptive Schools Seminars is to develop the resources and capacities of the organization and of individuals to cohesively respond to changing needs.

This workshop is at capacity. Please reach out to schedule a workshop at your organization.

In your work as a coach you get an opportunity to impact people, practice, quality and outcomes. This learning series will support you in your intentional growth in your role as a coach or mentor. Participating shared that participating in this learning cohort has resulted in upping their game in their roles as coaches and in their planning and execution of their facilitation in Communities of Practice.

As part of the cohort, you will be assigned a 15-30 minute reading and some practice activities in between meetings. The practice is incorporated into the work you are doing because after all… that’s the point! To enhance your daily practice. One example of that is, you may be asked to choose a regular meeting you have and pay attention to how you are posing questions and practice a new way to pose questions. The group will meet monthly for one hour to reflect on your experiences and to learn and practice new skills together. What better way to grow coaching skills then to learn and practice together!

This cohort is scheduled monthly for 12 months. Contact LearningWorks with questions and/or accessibility needs.

Registration for this opportunity is at capacity. I am available to facilitate this learning series for your organization.

The training not only explores what makes teams effective, but how to develop skills as facilitators and informed group members in informal and formal settings, in small and large groups. It takes participants beyond the idea of professional learning communities to the actual implementation, describing specific ways to weave the collaborative fabric of a faculty, develop group member skills, and acquire the principles and understandings to engage in a continuous cycle of team and individual improvement. Adaptive Schools is the “how” of professional learning communities: how to behave in groups, how to lead them, and how to facilitate them for improved leading, teaching, and learning.

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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, argument and conflict

• Strategies for keeping group members on track, on topic, energized and resourceful