Adaptive Schools Seminar
Workshop Details
WHEN: Thursday, 11 to Sunday, 14 February 2016 (8:00am - 4:30pm)
WHERE: ISKL Melawati Campus - Community Room
FEES: USD900. DEADLINE FOR CANCELLATION OF REGISTRATION: 28th JANUARY 2016
FOCUS: Schoolwide REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 8th FEBRUARY 2016
Workshop Overview
In this Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar workshop, 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
Doreen Miori-Merola
Now a private consultant, Doreen was an English teacher for over 35 years, and she taught everything from academic intervention to advanced placement. She has a B.S. from State University of New York at Oswego in English/secondary education, did graduate work in diagnostic and prescriptive reading, and received an M.S. in English Education Advanced Study from Syracuse University. As the ELA Content Specialist for the Solvay Union Free School District - a teacher leadership role - she was in charge of curriculum, assessment, data analysis, professional development, facilitation, mentoring, and AIS for grades 4 through 12. Doreen is a national Training Associate for Cognitive Coaching, Adaptive Schools and Habits of Mind and also provides professional development in curriculum writing and unit design. Doreen considers herself to be extremely fortunate because she has been mentored by Art Costa, Bena Kallick, Bob Garmston, and Michael Dolcemascolo. She is currently the Technology Coordinator for Thinking Collaborative. Doreen holds memberships in ASCD, NCTE, NYSSDC and other professional organizations.Doreen is the Coordinating Consultant for Thinking Collaborative. She has worked to build capacity in her school district by training AS, CC, and HOM. She is currently the ELA Content Specialist for the Solvay Union Free School District, in charge of curriculum, assessment, data analysis, professional development, and AIS for grades 4 through 12.