A D A P T I V E   S C H O O L S

 Foundation Seminar at

Claremont, California

The goal of Adaptive Schools is to develop collective identity and capacity as collaborators, inquirers and leaders.  How we perceive the world, our construction of meaning, and the choices we make are a reflection of who we believe we are, our identity.  Capacity refers to how many resources we can hold.  Adaptive solutions are about expanding capacity.  Collaborators are individuals with different resources working together as equals to produce a greater outcome than that possible through individual efforts.  Inquiry presumes an openness to and investment in the ideas of others.  To inquire is to ask, be curious, invite the transmission of thoughts or feelings, confer, consult, wonder, request, examine, and investigate ideas.  Leadership is a function, not a title.  In adaptive schools, every individual (students and adults) grows as a leader!

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Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar Outcomes

• An increased capacity to initiate, develop and sustain high functioning groups
• Understandings of systems thinking as rationale and focus for Adaptive Schools work
• Understandings of the importance of group identity for sustaining adaptivity
• New lenses for diagnosing the stages and phases of group development
• An expanded repertoire of practical facilitation tools
• Understandings of when and how to engage groups in dialogue and discussion, the limitations, forms and values of each
• Skills to move groups beyond consensus to common focus
• Ways to value and use dissension, argument, and conflict
• Strategies for keeping group members on track, on topic, energized and resourceful

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