Does your leadership empower stakeholders to pull towards a collective vision?
PD for teachers, school, and district leaders
Our workshops help you empower students and teachers to innovate.
Our Workshops
Available Online or On-Site

Creating a Culture of Conversation
This workshop will help leadership teams learn how to help their students, themselves, and colleagues engage in uncomfortable and potentially divisive conversations. By applying the democratic ideals as expressed in the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution workshop participants will gain a better understanding of what it takes to create a culture of conversation that helps navigate the complexities of difficult and often divisive topics by engaging in dialogue with best practices. Leveraging inquiry teaching and learning, participants will build the skills that help discover truth instead of reinforcing ideology and beliefs in ways that support a healthier democracy through heterodox thinking.
Read: We Should Teach About Uncomfortable Ideas, Here’s How

Collaborative Leadership Academy
The Collaborative Leadership Academy engages school leaders in professional learning focused on building community to improve our practice and results for students. This multi-day initial workshop with built-in coaching, support, and followup for sustainability seeks to answer these questions and more:
- Where does a leader’s charisma fit in a PLC culture?
- What principles of adult learning do you need to know and use?
- How do you lead change through continuous improvement and innovation?
- How can you leverage staff involvement in important decisions and allocate resources to maximize effectiveness?
People and Processes | Learn how to:
- Maximize team effectiveness
- Build better relationships
- Focus staff meetings on learning
- Engage adult learners
Tools and Tips | Learn how to:
- Use continuous improvement to actually improve
- Better allocate resources
- Leverage principles of student learning
Change and Sustainability | Learn how to:

Developing Sustainable PBL
Engaging with the PBL process, school leaders and stakeholders will design a sustainable PBL implementation plan for their school or district. Using this approach leaders will develop a deeper understanding of the basics of quality PBL and how to align this work around Mission/Purpose and Vision. Recommended as a starting point prior to capacity building Foundations of PBL Workshops for teachers. This workshop is most impactful when including key administrators and teacher-leaders as well as community business and industry partners and even students.

PD Alignment and Refinement
Using an inquiry approach participants will refine and clarify their district or school purpose and vision by creating a Mission Question. Using this approach leaders will develop a deeper understanding of what leaders and all community stakeholders need to know and do in order to meet this challenge. With clarity around the Mission/Purpose and Vision participants will begin the alignment of their PD Actions with tools and processes to critique and revise where necessary. Participants will leave with a school or district professional development plan that includes teacher voice and buy-in and is sustainable.
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