Class Overview
Whether you lead professional learning, work with teams, or work 1:1 with adults or students, facilitation is a skill that benefits all of us.
District & PLAEA staff are invited to enhance those facilitation strategies at a day of learning from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. August 16th, 2023 at the PLAEA Pocahontas Office.
This learning experience will help participants:
- Distinguish the difference between presentation and facilitation;
- Understand the role that nonverbal behaviors play in building rapport and maximizing effectiveness and efficiency;
- Identify and utilize the mindsets necessary for effective facilitation; maximize participant energy and focus; and
- Develop skills for navigating resistance and conflict; plan for the use of specific strategies, moves, techniques to improve meeting outcomes.
Dr. Dumas presented this learning to some lucky PLAEA staff in 2022. It was so powerful that we are not only bringing him back but we are also opening up this opportunity more widely to our district partners. Don't miss out on this fantastic day of learning!
Chad Dumas
Dr. Chad Dumas is a Solution Tree associate and international consultant, presenter and award-winning researcher whose primary focus is collaborating to develop capacity for continuous improvement. Having been a successful teacher, principal, central office administrator, professional developer and consultant in a variety of school districts, he brings his passion, expertise, and skills to his writing and speaking as he engages participants in meaningful and practical learning. In his Amazon best-selling books, Let’s Put the C in PLC and An Action Guide to Put the C in PLC, Chad offers readers and audiences educational research, engaging stories, hands-on tools, and useful knowledge and skills they can implement immediately.
The results of Chad’s work speak for themselves. One district was identified as “Persistently Lowest Achieving” upon his arrival, and within a few years — by applying the principles of this book — multiple schools were recognized as National PLC Models for improving student learning. Chad has served on and led agencies, state departments of education, and professional associations, and trained as an agency trainer for Adaptive Schools.
Email: chad@nextlearningsolutions.com
Website: www.NextLearningSolutions.com
