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

FOR REGISTERED LAUSD TEACHERS

FOR GENERAL ADMISSION

The Ojai Foundation's Council in
Schools Program

At The LAUSD Council
Practitioners Center

Is proud to offer three
opportunities for a 2-day Training:

An Introduction to Council for Educators

2 Saturdays, Feb. 20 & 27 2010

 8am - 4:30 pm both days: Location TBA

This course is approved by the
LAUSD for salary point credit.

Course and Materials Fee: $250

Credit card payments also accepted by phone (805) 646-8343
ext 101.

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.

(Note: $200 scholarships for all LAUSD certificated
employees are underwritten by foundation grants.)

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