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Council Training For Educators

Event Date: May 8 2010

8:00AM - 4:30 PM on both Saturdays

Location: New Roads School, 3131 Olympica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90404

Facilitators: Joe Prosivor, Monica Chinlund, Julia Wasson

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The Ojai Foundation's Council in Schools Program

At The LAUSD Council Practitioners Center

An Introduction to Council for Educators

2 Saturdays, May 8 & 15, 2010

8am - 4:30 pm both days

Course and Materials Fee: $250 (General Admission)

Note: $200 scholarships for all LAUSD certificated employees are underwritten by foundation grants so payment due for LAUSD employees is $50 – LAUSD – please be sure to also register at the Learning Zone.

To register, click on appropriate link above (General or LAUSD) Credit card payments also accepted by phone (805) 646-8343 ext 151. 

Cancellation Policy: A full refund is available up to one week prior to the training. After that the fee is non-refundable but may be applied to a future training.

What happens in the 16-hour training? Participants will...

  • Enjoy a fun-filled, relaxing, rejuvenating time, sharing stories, experiences, and play with colleagues.
  • Receive one salary point for the completion of the course and two brief process papers.
  • Experience many forms of Council: basic, the web, the spiral, fishbowl, learning circle, response council, dyadic council, virtual council, witnessing, and conflict exploration.
  • Learn the history of relational practices such as council in communities, classrooms, business, and other settings.
  • Connect Council to literacy and content standards in all disciplines.
  • Experience multimodal forms of council, accommodating multiple intelligences, learning styles, ELL, and Special Education.
  • Acquire basic facilitation skills and methods for using Council in large groups with limited space and time.
  • Learn to use Council for adult staff meetings, parent and community meetings, classroom norming, content delivery, content processing, assessment of understanding, determining course corrections, setting intentions, and celebrating transitions and successes.
  • Understand how to set up and sustain a school council program, including an "open-feedback loop" for responding to schools issues, crises, and concerns.
  • Receive a 200-page training manual.

Nothing is more important than the quality of our relationships. Council brings connection and meaning into classrooms and school communities. TOFs Council Practitioners Center in the LAUSD aims to support school staff, parents and community members in the practice of listening to children and to each other. Council is a dialogic practice based on worldwide indigenous and cultural systems as well as contemporary group dynamics. Classroom teachers learn to use Council to create community among students and to engage them in making lively connections to the academic standards. Counselors and administrators use Council with staff, student, parent, family, and community groups. Council is now practiced at over 30 LAUSD schools as well as many private and charter schools and is integrated into teacher and counselor training at CSULA. To learn more about Council in schools go to: http://ojaifoundation.org/program/council-schools

For Council in Schools inquiries: joseph.provisor@lausd.net or monica.chinlund@lausd.net