| Attendees | Cost | Registration Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| This learning experience is specially designed for educators who conduct meetings and serve on work teams, site councils, decision-making groups, and faculty committees. Site-based and district leadership teams are encouraged to attend. | HKD$4,000 per person (Refreshments and lunch are provided each day) | October 28, 2024 Registration may close early if the participant cap is reached. |
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Overview
In this 4-day workshop, 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
- 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
Speaker
Carol Brooks Simoneau
Carol Brooks Simoneau, EdD, graduated from the University of Nebraska with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in elementary education. She earned a Master of Science Degree with a Reading Specialist endorsement and an Educational Administration and Leadership endorsement from Kansas State University. Carol earned a Doctorate in Educational Administration and Leadership from Kansas State University.
Carol has over 20 years experience as a teacher and reading specialist with students of all ages. As a reading specialist, she modeled instructional strategies in the classroom and worked with students in intervention programs created to prevent reading failure. She has also chaired or served as a member on many school improvement and accreditation teams designed to develop school community and facilitate achievement. Carol has received the Kansas State Department of Education Distinguished Educator Award. She has also served on the Board of Directors for the Kansas Staff Development Council.
Carol provides Cognitive CoachingSM and Adaptive Schools training. She is the author of A Facilitator's Guide to On-line Professional Development: Establishing Communities of Learning and Cultures of Thinking.
Daily Schedule
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 7:30 am | Registration and light breakfast |
| 8:00 am | Welcome and Part 1 |
| 9:45 am | Break |
| 10:00 am | Part 2 |
| 11:30 am | Lunch |
| 12:30 pm | Part 3 |
| 2:00 pm | Break |
| 2:15 pm | Part 4 |
| 4:00 pm | Event concludes |
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