Foundation Adaptive Schools Seminar
Workshop Details
WHEN: Thursday, 7 to Sunday, 10 September 2023 (8:00am - 3:30pm)
WHERE: ISKL Ampang Hilir Campus (MPR1)
FEES: USD450 (For non ISKL, please sign up below)
For ISKL Faculty (please sign up on the PD Google Calendar)
FOCUS: School-wide DEADLINE FOR CANCELLATION OF REGISTRATION: 24th AUGUST 2023
TRAINER: Doug Woodward REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 1st SEPTEMBER 2023
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
Doug Woodward
Doug Woodward is the Middle School Assistant Principal at the International School of Kuala Lumpur (ISKL). He is passionate about teaching kids and helping schools get even better. He completed his Masters in Educational Leadership and School Administration from Indiana University. Doug is an Agency Trainer for Adaptive Schools. He is also an Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE), Google Certified, and a former technology facilitator. Though he has mostly worked in middle school, he has taught preK-12 in a wide variety of subjects (social studies, science, math, language arts, and various technology courses). Doug has lived and taught in Kenya, Peru, Jordan, USA and now Malaysia. Doug has facilitated and presented workshops at EARCOS, NESA, AASSA, Google Summits and ADE events. In his work in Adaptive Schools, Doug is immensely grateful for getting to work with Rami Madani and having Ochan Kusama-Powell as his mentor. Most significantly, he is grateful for his wonderful wife, Tracy, and his three marvelous kids.