Description

The last three years have been challenging and exhausting for all of us, especially educators. Now, as the urgency of the pandemic abates, it’s imperative that we reflect deeply on how we’ve changed and how we want to move forward in a moment filled with continuing challenges and amazing opportunities at the same time.
In these Soul Work sessions, Big Questions Institute co-founders Homa Tavangar and Will Richardson will help you understand what’s changing, what it means for school and education moving forward, and they’ll help you build the dispositions you need to remain energized and curious for the work ahead.

As a result of participating at this institute, attendees can expect to:

• Understand with more clarity how the last three years have changed us as individuals and as institutions.
• Develop a deeper sense of the powerful new and changing contexts for learning and schooling that are evolving throughout the world.
• Develop new leadership lenses to apply to decisions about all aspects of the school experience for teachers and students.
• Understand a “strategic design” process for thinking about a future of schools that centers more deeply on wellness, relevance, equity, and sustainability.

The sessions are free and do not require registration. School leaders will receive details on how to access the Zoom sessions from the AISA Executive Director.

Sesssion time: 13:30 – 14:30 GMT

Mon. 21 Nov. 2022 & Mon. 16 Jan. 2023
Reflect: Where have you been brave? How have you changed? What gives you hope and how do you maintain hope?

Mon. 20 Feb. & Mon. 20 Mar. 2023
Reset: What are you determined to keep or carry through the “portal” coming out of Covid and the tumult of the past three years? What will you leave behind? If rest is resistance, how do we use rest as a way to reset? What other ways do you reset?

Mon. 17 Apr. & Mon. 15 May 2023
Reinvent: In what ways might you use your imagination more regularly in your daily work? How can you begin to work and live with greater coherence between your values and actions? Dream about what school can be: What changes? What do you want to start building (or dismantling)?