Lead Collaborative Inquiry for Learning

Service Description

"Excellent instructor. Knowledgeable. Articulate. Listens and adapts her teaching to meet the needs of the group." - Len S., Director of Professional Development Description: 6-hour and 12-hour workshops offered, as well as a 16-hour 8-week experiential train-the-trainer collaborative inquiry cycle, where your team of up to 7 leaders engage in their own collaborative inquiry cycle with Elisa and unpack the facilitation moves that helped them achieve their goal. Let Elisa deliver professional learning that equips your teacher leaders and coaches to skillfully identify an important student-centered challenge that they feel compelled to tackle in a collaborative inquiry cycle. Elisa works from your starting place, from new leaders who don't know what collaborative inquiry is, why teams do it and how to lead it to experienced leaders who have been going through the technical steps of an existing cycle but aren't seeing the impact in classrooms or results in student learning. Elisa's 6-hour and 12-hour workshops will prepare your team leaders in the following: *A research-based understanding of the phases of collaborative inquiry is and why it’s worthwhile *An approach to inquiry that emphasizes teacher learning and student outcomes *Practical processes for launching inquiry, analyzing data, targeting a goal, leading a text-based discussion and facilitating peer observations with debriefs. *Ability to recognize characteristics of strong inquiry questions and goals *Field-tested facilitation moves *Leadership that emphasizes skill, agility and intentionality * Moves to navigate hurdles *A continuous network of support *Connections to one another and budding excitement! Copies of Intentional Moves book are required for this professional learning.