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Let’s build energy for change by facilitating Systems Thinking

Explore the implications of global trends on school development through dialogue and systems thinking, fostering a collaborative approach to address the needs and goals of educational organizations.

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Let’s build energy for change by facilitating Systems Thinking

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  1. Let’s build energy for change by facilitating Systems Thinking

  2. Let’s Consider….. A Systems Approach - The organization is the unit of change guided by a common mission and goals as workers integrate programs and services around purpose and needs. (Snyder and Anderson, Managing Productive Schools, 1986) Systems Thinking – Shifting from parts to whole thinking through a learning organization, personal mastery, mental models, a shared vision, and team learning (Senge, The Fifth Discipline, 1990)

  3. Systems Thinking : The Human Living Force in a community that drives change, which generates energy for the change initiatives that follow. -LSSD (2008) Systems Thinking is a community’s own emerging knowledge and understanding about the present and the future, which results from dialogue and networks of conversation, and leads to subsequent collective action. -LSSD (2008)

  4. The World Cafe By Juanita Brown and David Isaacs Assumptions: Dialogue is the core process for discovering Shared meaning, accessing collective intelligences, and bringing forth the future

  5. Four Key Dialogue Principles • Hospitable spaces for conversation • Questions that matter for dialogue • Small groups for conversation • that cross fertilize • All listen together for patterns, • insights, and deeper questions.

  6. Dialogue Skills • . Suspend judgment, assumptions and certainties • . Speak intentionally to the center of the table • . Build upon the ideas of others • . Observe the thought process in yourself and others

  7. The World Café…… • Method • Café Question(s) that matter(s) • Three Rounds of dialogue in small groups • Sharing between Rounds to the whole group • Share highlights from the Café in • response to the question(s)

  8. The World Café Question Today: What are the implications of global trends for school development?

  9. Round 1: Dialogue about The question What are the implications of global trends for school development?

  10. Round 2: One person remains, & the Others find new groups Share the story of the Table dialogue Facilitate more dialogue What are the implications of global trends for school development?

  11. Round 3 One person again remains while the others distribute themselves among the different tables. The earlier ideas are shared, and new ideas added. What are the implications of global trends for school development?

  12. Let’s share a few ideas from groups Someone records these ideas……..

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