Date: 06/26/2017 - 06/29/2017
Location: Atlanta Public Schools – Instructional Services Center - Atlanta, GA
Facilitators: Greg Peters
Coaching for Equity, SRI Critical Friendship

SRI is proud to partner with the San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools (SF-CESS) to offer Equity Focused Facilitator Training

While this training is specifically geared to prepare participants to facilitate an iGroup (individual inquiry group) of peers, it also serves as an excellent training for anyone seeking to lead and facilitate professional learning spaces committed to equity.

Guided by a framework for individual and institutional transformation, SF-CESS’ first Equity-Based iGroup Facilitator Trainings were offered in 2005. Now in its 12th year, SF-CESS has trained well over 500 iGroup Facilitators throughout the country to use tools and hold space for discourse about race and equity that those we serve – especially those least reached in our society – need us to have. SF-CESS’ Equity-Based Facilitator Training prepares individuals either to serve as a facilitator or to be a much more prepared participant in a learning community or iGroup. Not only do participants learn about and practice the tools needed to facilitate an iGroup, but also they debrief the actual pedagogical moves of the facilitator team as another layer of the instructional experience. For this particular partnership, we will emphasis this focus on metacognition.

We are inviting people who are already facilitators, but this is not a training to be able to be a trainer of trainers for iGroup facilitation. We expect your facilitation to change as a result of this experience, and influence your role as a facilitator through your individual growth, but you will not be prepared to be an iGroup facilitator trainer. This is a first step along that pathway, but that is a longer experience and learning path than a single seminar experience.

Designed to mirror an accelerated first year of an actual iGroup, SF-CESS’ Equity-Based iGroup Facilitator Training is guided by the following EQ and goals:

“What do we need to know, do, and be in order to create and foster equity-centered professional learning communities that build alliances across differences and transform individual practice?”

Seminar Goals: We will, individually and collectively,

  1. Commit to interrupt, transition and transform inequities in context – personal and professional.
  2. Deepen our content knowledge; develop a toolbox (i.e. protocols and structures) to use as vehicles for rigorous work, and hone our skills and strategies to “hold space” for individualized, equity-centered learning in our collaborations and classrooms.
  3. Experience and develop an awareness of our reaction, release, reflection and re-action to who and how we – in the skin we are in – exist in our work in relation to the reproduction of oppression and privilege in education.
  4.  Begin to develop alliances across difference and recognize this act as a critical component of Leading and Teaching for Equity.

Dates: June 26-29, 2017
Location: Atlanta Public Schools –Instructional Services Center
Time: 8:30-4:00PM
Cost: $1250 per person

Have questions about this experience? Please email Dr. Greg Peters (gpeter@sfcess.org). We hope you will join us.

Application Process:

  • Participants must apply to participate. You will be notified of your status within two weeks of application.
  • We strongly encourage teams from a single school/organization to attend together

 

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