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SERVICES
We also work with business and not-for-profit leaders on issues of organizational culture, and creating dynamic learning environments.
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“At the center of Kirsten’s work is empathy, and seeing others more fully.” -Workshop participant, Norton (MA) public schools, April 2009
Professional Development Workshops
Do teachers find it difficult to cooperate effectively? How are at-risk or disengaged learners spoken about? Is your school a place you'd like to go to learn?
· What drew you to your work in schools? · Who are you in the institution (what is your professional identity)? · Is your professional identity who you really are? Using data from your school, and from student experiences, we look at: · Understanding the culture of your district or school, from a learner’s point of view · Making “success” more available to all · Reframing deficit-based language about learners We offer evidence that describes how every adult’s orientation towards learners and learning reluctance “matters” in school.
WHAT WE DID LAST YEAR...
See the PDF below for a list of topics and brief descriptions.
Download PROFESSIONAL_DEVELOPMENT_OFFERINGS_001.pdf Keynotes"The Power of Relationships In Drop Out Prevention" Presented at America's Promise Drop Out Summit, Pressley Ridge, West Virginia April 2009
"You Matter, You Make a Difference" Presented at Wheaton College May 2009 "How Do Students Heal from School Wounds?" Presented at Teachers College Columbia University May 2009  "Thank you for your visit to Teachers College and presentation. The topic is so very timely and so willingly swept under the rug, as educators strive to convince themselves that we are doing all that we can. We're not, and your courage in pointing that out is invaluable and necessary!"
-Bill Lundgren, National Academy for Excellent Teaching, Teachers College Columbia University, May 2009
Download educate_to_graduate_2_ppt.pdf Courage and Renewal Experiences"As good teachers weave the fabric that joins them with students and subjects, the heart is the loom on which the threads are tied, the tension is held...Teaching tugs at the heart, opens the heart, even breaks the heart--and the more one loves teaching the more heartbreaking it can be. The courage to teach is the courage to keep one's heart open." -Parker Palmer, The Courage To Teach (1998)
Courage to Teach (http://www.couragerenewal.org), based on the work of Parker Palmer, is a national program for the personal and professional renewal of teachers and other professionals. Along with the Courage and Renewal Northeast (http://www.couragene.org), we offer professional development experiences that emphasize the inner life of teaching professionals, and explore the paradoxes of that work. Kirsten Olson is a Courage and Renewal facilitator, and collaborates with other Circles of Trust and Courage to Teach facilitators in designing Courage to Teach experiences. Below (PDF) is an example of recent Courage and Renewal workshop.
Download standing_in_tragic_gap_wksp_dscpt.pdf Strategic Partners
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Old Sow Consulting offers a variety of half-day, one-day and two-day experiential, interactive learning experiences around reluctant and wounded learners.
