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Facilitator Training (Virtual)

Grow Your Skills as a Collaborative Leader

All of us have the ability to lead adult collaboration to improve student outcomes, regardless of our role or position. Facilitator Training builds your capacity to lead with purpose and to strengthen collaboration among colleagues. You will sharpen facilitation skills and practice using collaborative tools to share leadership, expand perspectives and generate improvements centered on student impact.

You may recognize this as professional development for Reflective Learning Communities, Teacher Leader Training, Critical Friendship, Facilitative Leadership or PLC Coach/Facilitator Training.

You Will Build Capacity to:

  • Facilitate feedback rounds using protocols
  • Create conditions that elevate participant voice, improve student learning outcomes, and strengthen systems and structures
  • Select and use a variety of learning protocols

Who Is This For?
Facilitator Training is for educators, educational leaders, and those who support educators who want to build their capacity to lead and collaborate with adults to impact student outcomes.

Training Outcome
Strengthen individual and team capacity to facilitate  adult learning communities to impact student outcomes.

Essential Question
How does a strong adult learning community contribute to high outcomes for each student?

Session Overviews

  • Session 1: Who am I as a facilitative leader of adult learning?
  • Session 2: Intro to Foundations of Facilitative Leadership
  • Session 3: Pre-Conferencing and Asking Critical Questions
  • Session 4: Using Protocols to Conference and Understanding Our Impact
  • Session 5: Planning for Collaboration and Feedback Rounds
  • Session 6: Starting Feedback Rounds
  • Session 7: Feedback Rounds, continued
  • Session 8: Final Feedback Rounds and Course Reflection

Dates
2/12, 2/26, 3/12, 3/24, 4/2, 4/16, 4/30, 5/14, 2026

All Sessions are 1-4pm (Eastern)

Cost
$1200

Overarching knowledge and skills: Use high leverage facilitator moves to design and facilitate collaborative adult learning experiences aimed at improving student learning through adult learning. 

Knowledge Skills
K1. Concept of Ladder of Inference (LOI) as frame for how people make judgements S1. Using LOI to challenge assumptions to see new perspectives (data, solutions, possibilities)
K2. Concept of self-inquiry as a tool for changing schema S2. Engaging in reflective practice
K3. Knowledge of high leverage facilitation that engages adults in collaborative inquiry and learning S3. Planning, presenting, participating, facilitating, and debriefing adult learning using a variety of protocols
K4. Concept of receptivity as a precondition for learning in diverse groups S4a. Giving and receiving feedback
S4b. Developing sustaining and evolving agreements
S4c. Planning and facilitating agendas that allow for receptivity of participants
K5. Concept of facilitating growth and change of others by giving feedback that helps others solve their own problems. S5a. Constructing and asking clarifying and probing Questions
S5b.Providing warm and cool feedback to colleagues
K6. Concept of divergent thinking (“My truth is not the only truth”) S6a.Practicing expansive listening
S6b.Practicing both/and thinking
S6c.Communicating perspective as one perspective (of many)
S6d.Being in service of someone else’s learning
S6e.Seeking and seeing other data/other interpretations of data

”"Talking about the art of facilitative leadership helped deepen my understanding of the ways that leadership style and leadership approach can strengthen or hinder the ways team members' individual skills are leveraged. There is potential for team members to be overlooked or for their skills to be under-utilized depending on the leader's approach. Especially when teams are diverse, it is important for leaders to take time to know what each individual brings and has to offer."

Participant Reflection

The CLEE Part-Time Facilitator Pathway offers a supported way to deepen your facilitation practice while staying in your current professional role. It is designed for educators and leaders who want to lead strong adult learning, grow through real practice, and contribute to a national community of facilitators.

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