Foundation Adaptive Schools Seminar
Workshop Details
WHEN: Thursday, 24 to Sunday, 27 August 2017 (8:00am - 3:30pm)
WHERE: ISKL Melawati Campus - Community Room
FEES: USD800
FOCUS: Schoolwide DEADLINE FOR CANCELLATION OF REGISTRATION: 10TH AUGUST 2017
TRAINER: Ochan Powell REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 18TH AUGUST 2017
Workshop Overview
In this Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar workshop, participants learn how to build strong collaborative and caring work cultures, in which results-oriented faculties work together for continuous school improvement. Explore the latest practical findings in organizational development, team learning and navigating the currents of change.
Participants will learn practical frameworks and tools for developing collaborative groups that bring collective responsibility in student learning. Leaders and group members will learn ways to influence and attain more productive and satisfying meetings in which members develop new norms and skills for collegial interaction, goal clarification, problem-solving and decision-making. Working in a variety of settings, skilled and confident facilitators will increase their ability to accelerate group development.
This workshop is specially designed to support site administrators, teachers, district and agency personnel and staff developers who convene and manage work teams, site councils, shared decision making groups and faculty committees.
Learning 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
• 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
Ochan Kusuma-Powell
Ochan Kusuma-Powell received her doctorate from Columbia University and has developed and implemented inclusive special education programs in the United States, Indonesia, Malaysia and Tanzania. At the present time she is the Executive Director of Education Across Frontiers. She is a regular speaker at international educational conferences and teaches in the summers at the Teacher Training Centre.Ochan is an associate trainer for the Center for Cognitive Coaching and Adaptive Schools.
Ochan and her husband Bill, are co-authors of Count Me In! Developing Inclusive International Schools (2000), Making the Difference: Differentiation in International Schools (2007) Becoming An Emotionally Intelligent Teacher (2010) and How to Teach Now: Five Keys to Personalized Learning in the Global Classroom (2011) and The OIQ Factor: How to Raise the Organizational Intelligence of your School (2013).
Ochan is currently working on a project, The Next Frontier: Inclusion to support the inclusion of special needs children in international schools.
When she is not facilitating teacher workshops or speaking at conferences, Ochan can be found in the French Pyrenees where she fights (together with a handful of sheep) an annual battle with the European battle.