Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar

September 30-Oct 1, 2024 and March 6-7, 2025:

The Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar present a productive, practical set of ideas and tools to develop collaborative groups to become effective and better equipped to resolve complex student learning issues. The work of the Adaptive Schools Seminars is to develop the resources and capacities of the organization and of individuals to cohesively respond to the changing needs of students and society. In this four-day Adaptive Schools Training, 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
• An understanding 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