Day1-Leading+New+Cultures

= ** Leading, Living and Nourishing Collaborative Cultures ** ** [Day 1] ** =

//Perhaps the most important understanding here is that students are volunteers, whether we want them to be or not. Their attendance can be commanded, but their attention must be earned. Their compliance can be insisted on, but their commitment is under their own control.// ~ Schelcty

=** Driving Questions **=
 * What are the best hopes and worst fears for project success?
 * What information / understandings are needed NOW to begin the launch?
 * What group norms/protocols will guide the project / community?
 * What is the role for collaborative cultures in creating and sustaining change?
 * What is difference between cooperative and collaborative? How will you know it?
 * What essential role(s) can critical friends take in everyone learning forward?
 * What is agency / passion-based / strength-based learning? How will you know it?
 * What processes / strategies enable groups to tap into community talent and expertise?
 * What will be evidence of success of Academy 21 this coming year? 2015?
 * What key shared resources will guide Academy 21 core values?
 * How will project learning curves be doable? Processes? Strategies? Work flows?


 * Outcomes **
 * Fortifying for Paradigm Change Ahead
 * Inspiring and Stoking Fire in Our Hearts – //Da Um Jetinho//
 * Grounding with Common Understandings of Project Vision and Realities
 * Community-building for the Journey Ahead as Learners, Parents, and Teachers
 * Re-culturing and coaching for learners’ affinities and agency PLUS
 * Tapping into Expertise – Distributed Learning with Critical Friend Circles
 * Pacing the Project and Resourcefulness ~ Don’t Have to Go Home Exhausted!



= Agenda Topics =

Opening the Circle ~ Go Arounds

 * Process: Claim AHA or Proud Moment
 * Topic: Debrief process ~ the power of metaphors
 * Topic: Over view of Agenda(s) ~ Google Domain ~ Wiki
 * Topic: Project CORE Resources Back Pack ~ Shared Concepts and Strategies
 * Topic: What IT is a la Think –Puzzle – Explore [//Making Thinking Visible// p. 71]
 * Process: Q&A ~ //What information and/or understandings are needed NOW to begin the launch?//
 * Topic: Knowing What We Don’t Know
 * Process: Creating THE 30 sec Academy 21 elevator talk?
 * Process: Passion Rating
 * Process: Passion-based Learning and Working
 * Process: Best Hopes / Worst Fears
 * Topic: Activating Possibilities ~ Wave Packets and Pre-Morphogentic Fields
 * Process: Constructing ADVICE for making MORE happen
 * Topic: Decision-Making Strategies ~ Who Owns Problem? Who Owns Solutions?
 * Process: Force-fields and Possibility Thinking
 * Topic: Agency or NOT!
 * Topic: Collaborative Cultures or NOT!
 * Process: Mock Robert Frost Collaborative Task
 * Topic: Working with Diversity
 * Process: Critical Friends or NOT!
 * Process: Creating Norms / Protocols for Work Ahead [Consensus Style]
 * Topic: ON YOUR OWN ~ Debriefing / Reflecting on Processes a la blogging
 * Topic: ON YOUR OWN - CSI Reflection of Understanding of Agency [//Making Thinking Visible// p. 119]
 * Topic: ON YOUR OWN ~ Introducing Yourself Day Two a la Pecha Kucha
 * HEADS UP: Whole Team Collaborative Task ~ Constructing one (1) PBL / //**Trans-disciplinary**// / AGENCY Learning
 * Sustaining Resourcefulness: Firewalls and Watering Holes
 * What do you do when YOU don’t know?
 * How do you react to criticism?
 * What turns around frustration, unhappiness, energy drains or un-resourcefulness for you?

Today's Handouts and Tools

 * Getting Started Survey
 * Designing Minds - Bernajean's Process Handouts [[file:Designing Minds.pdf]]
 * Force-field Analysis [[file:Force Field Analysis.pdf]]

Resource Links

 * Gift to Senior Class Lip Dubbing Video "Year Book"
 * Unconscious Competence Slide - Click to Download - Use with Permission