Professional development is essential to the upgrade of any organization, but it also requires a substantial investment of time, energy, and resources. Your school or small business especially deserves maximum returns on its investments! Here’s what you can expect:
Professional Development:
- ✓ Well-crafted experiences informed by industry research, tailored to your unique contexts, history, and needs, and geared towards action and measurable outcomes.
- ✓ Experiences that foster social-emotional literacy, growth mindset, and personal development such as self-awareness, confidence building, and strengths cultivation (so-called “soft skills”).
- ✓ On-the-job training and coaching to habituate thinking, problem-solving dispositions, and self-management as well as interpersonal skills development.
- ✓ Where appropriate, development of adaptive e-learning trainings accessible on all devices to onboard new hires or train current staff, streamline manuals into usable tools, and with follow-ups in an all-in-one shareable management system.
- ✓ The ultimate goals of all professional development experiences are advanced learnings and increased performance. Together, we decide on performance indicators.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFERINGS FOR
NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
2021 – 2022 SCHOOL YEAR
DOE Vendor ID: Pending Fall 2021
Focus Areas: Wellness, Personal Development, & Social-Emotional Literacy
Glenda M. Francis and Audacious Inner Works Institute are pleased to launch their professional development offerings for the 2021-2022 school year focused on wellness, personal development, and social-emotional literacy.
AIW conceptualizes personal development as the ongoing process of development towards self-realization—seeing, knowing, accepting, and defining oneself, and growing into one’s fullest expression. The offerings aim to cultivate in participants advanced self-awareness, self-knowledge, self-assuredness, and interpersonal skills, as well as foster a sense of well-being, all of which are essential qualities for personal and professional competency.
Flexibility in Scheduling:
This school year, schools are afforded the flexibility to request and schedule the offerings at their convenience. A minimum group size of 5 participants per selected offering is required. Listed below are the description and rates for each PD offering. To request an offering for your community or to have your questions answered, please contact Glenda at 929-466-2498 or email glenda@audaciousnnerworks.com.
Hybrid Series, In-Person & Virtual Meetings
“Sawabona”: Centering Staff Wellness
“Sawabona” is an important value that comes from the South African Zulu nation; it connotes, “I see you. I accept you. I value you. You are important to me.” This workshop series is intended to center the voices, experiences, humanity, and resilience of staff and to engage them in envisioning and planning for a sustainable culture of staff wellness.
Standard Rate: $175
Group Rate: $160*
Virtual Meeting Series
Leading with
Character Strengths
This workshop series is predicated on a strengths-based model developed by the VIA Institute on Character™ and designed to bring to participants’ awareness the role that character strengths can play in transforming the quality of their lives and work performance.
Standard Rate: $170
Group Rate: $155*
How Do You See?: The Role of Mindset in Shaping Experiences
This workshop series explores mindset from the lenses of professional coaching and neuroscience. Participants will investigate their own mindset orientations, consider personal and professional implications, and explore teacher practices that promote a growth mindset in students.
Standard Rate: $150
Group Rate: $135*
Virtual Power Sips™:
Group Coaching
The Sips’ facilitated discussions attune participants to their unique ways of being and core values, surface underlying beliefs, and offer tools to better equip them to operate from the strength of who they are.
Standard Rate: $125
Group Rate: $115*
*Group Rate Applicable for 5 or More Participants
Customizing Your Professional Development Experience
In addition to the offerings listed above, AIW welcomes an opportunity to partner with you to design custom PD experiences to meet the wellness and personal development needs of your school community. Contact Glenda to explore possibilities.
Recent Professional Development Project:
“Exploring a Growth Mindset in Equitable Teaching,” YMCA of Bogotá, Colombia in Conjunction with Unicompensar
Glenda was invited to participate in a speakers’ series targeted for YMCA youth coordinators and university level students, many of whom were educators. She designed and facilitated a workshop on growth mindset predicated on Dr. Carol S. Dweck’s groundbreaking scientific research. It aimed to develop participants’ awareness of their own mindset orientations and to explore teacher practices that promote a growth mindset in students.
Key Performance Indicators:
- ✓ Heightened understanding of mindset as a framework and awareness of the role of the teacher in influencing mindsets as assessed through pre- and post- tasks.
- ✓ Newfound understanding about their students’ reluctance to learn and speak English and how approaches rooted in a growth mindset framework (e.g., teaching intellectual dispositions and using rich, relevant tasks) could facilitate their English-language acquisition.
Consulting Request
“We must all acknowledge the parts of our mindset that are fixed and only then will we be conscious enough to start promoting the shift to a growth mindset. We also need to foster in our students their metacognitive competence in order to help them embrace their own learning process and take control over it.” – Monica
“I loved the session. It was an invitation to evaluate the way we learn and the way we think. Also, it was very helpful to learn and think about other ways to think, learn, and get challenged.” – Angélica