DESCRIPTION
Designed to provide facilitated support for those charged with guiding and supporting teaching faculty in a hybrid or fluctuating learning environment while serving as a bridge between school leadership and teachers. The interdisciplinary Chairs and Coaches Cohorts will be intentionally limited in size (25–30 participants). Chairs and Coaches Cohort members will meet as a whole group synchronously every week, facilitated by a One Schoolhouse leader along with selected guest speakers from the larger independent school community. The cohort will also have a dedicated online discussion and meeting space with a curated library of resources from One Schoolhouse and other sources.
Areas of Focus:
- Building growth-oriented relationships with teachers
- Learning to live “in-between” as both a colleague and a supervisor or manager-leader
- Assessing faculty strengths and areas for growth
- Supporting colleagues in different disciplines and at different grade levels
- Understanding and addressing diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice concerns in the academic program and school culture
- Modeling and sharing best practices in curriculum and assessment design
- Student workload, stress, and wellness
- Reconsidering grading practices
- Trauma-informed teaching
- Designing individual and institutional professional development plans
- Developing an “institutional” perspective on strategic issues
FACILITATORS
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Peter Gow-- Peter Gow became Independent Curriculum Resource Director at One Schoolhouse after a forty-plus-year career as a teacher and administrator. Peter is a prolific writer and presenter and author of multiple books on independent schools and independent school teaching and leadership. Above all, he is passionate in his belief that connection and collaboration are essential if independent schools are to live up to the promises made in their statements of mission and values and fulfill their public purpose.
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FORMAT
This is a 11 -week cohort, not an online course. There is a program plan, and the participants will influence the experience for one another. In that spirit, participation, sharing, and confidentiality/non-disclosure are expected from all members of the cohort.
Cohorts will have both synchronous (meet-ups and check-ins with Peter) and asynchronous (readings and written discussion boards) components. Administrators can expect that each week of the course will take about two hours per week to complete, one hour for the synchronous meetings and one hour for reading, watching and responding to that week's reading or video on the discussion boards. The synchronous meetings will be coordinated early during the first week of the cohort after we get a sense of time zones, flexibility, etc. It is really important to us to not to cut someone out of the synchronous components before they could opt in.
Cohorts will have both synchronous (meet-ups and check-ins with Peter) and asynchronous (readings and written discussion boards) components. Administrators can expect that each week of the course will take about two hours per week to complete, one hour for the synchronous meetings and one hour for reading, watching and responding to that week's reading or video on the discussion boards. The synchronous meetings will be coordinated early during the first week of the cohort after we get a sense of time zones, flexibility, etc. It is really important to us to not to cut someone out of the synchronous components before they could opt in.
FEES
$1250 for consortium school participants; $1750 for all other participants. Use the link above to register.
Registration closes on at close-of-business on Monday, October 12, 2020, or when the cohort is at capacity.
Registration closes on at close-of-business on Monday, October 12, 2020, or when the cohort is at capacity.