Participant Outcomes

• Experiencing and understanding learning environments and emerging practices such as brain-based learning, authentic work, critical thinking, and systems thinking, which nurture learning.
• Developing inquiry and self-assessment skills to improve your teaching and professional growth.
• Nurturing your capacity to be a thoughtful, reflective practitioner by developing such critical thinking skills as examining points of view, finding assumptions, making inferences, determining purpose, and considering implications.
• Fostering your ability to develop civic responsibility and professional collaboration skills that model life-long learning and reflect your professional and ethical leadership.
• Using effective verbal and nonverbal communication techniques as well as instructional media and technology to promote active inquiry, collaboration, and supportive interaction with students, parents, colleagues, and community members.

Guiding Principles

• Everything speaks.
• Make the implicit explicit.
• Practice fair-mindedness, respect and openness to diversity.
• Recognize and respect the reality of interdependency.
• Planning needs to add freshness and inspiration while meeting established Facilitating The Future outcomes.
• Practice intellectual empathy.
• Reflect on the command control to self-organizing continuum when the decision-making process is used.
• Build personal, organizational, and regional capacity.

Guiding Practices

• In the decision-making process:
  • Clearly identify the decision-making structure.
  • Distinguish between recommending and decision-making.
  • Provide opportunities for every voice to be heard.
  • Clearly delineate roles and responsibilities related to decision-making.
  • Clearly communicate decision(s) made, related roles and timelines.
• Recognize the balance between design and logistics.
• Consider and respect budget constraints.
• Change the plan by being flexible and adaptable.
• Responsibly use time before, during and after FTF.
• Relate FTF to the rest of the work we do.