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SUMMARY:Collaborative Leadership: Personalized Strategies for Becoming a More Effective Member of Your Leadership Team
DESCRIPTION:This course is now filled and is no longer accepting registration. Cancellations do occur\, so feel free to sign up on our waiting list if you wish to be in line for an opening.\nProfessional development for decision-makers—including administrators\, directors\, board and committee members\, and faculty chairs—working in Waldorf schools or other workplace settings. This course is taught remotely in real-time. Read about Summer Series 2024.  \n\nAre you shaping your organizational and leadership culture consciously or unconsciously? Do you have the skills necessary to recognize problems that might exist or arise within your workplace? And are you able to help your leadership team prioritize these issues and equip your fellow team members (and yourself) with the tools required to address them? \nFor over a decade\, Sunbridge’s Collaborative Leadership Summer Series course has helped individuals with leadership responsibilities in their school\, business\, or organization improve their planning and problem-solving processes. In this highly-useful course\, our focus is on the practical work of being a leader and decision-maker. Through a process imbued with the anthroposophical understanding of the human being\, and successfully applied in organizations from Waldorf schools to multi-million dollar nationals\, Collaborative Leadership will help you learn how to improve your effectiveness as a member of your leadership team. \nEach participant is asked to bring their own organizational question\, project\, or challenge. Using your real-life cases\, we will apply these four core models for collaborative leadership: \n\n\nThree main leadership tasks: Maintaining and creating identity / Creating space for healthy\, stable relationships / Assuring professional results\nDiagnostic and planning tools: How to look at an organization as a whole and understand the dynamics of intersecting segments\nHow to create processes toward healthy decision-making\nThe balance between power and trust\n\nYour course takeaway will be an individualized action plan for the question\, project\, or challenge you have brought with you\, along with an understanding of the necessary skill set with which to execute it. As always\, we encourage more than one attendee from a school so that they can work on a project together. \nBONUS: Ongoing coaching support! To support you as you implement throughout the year what you have learned and practiced during the summer\, this course includes conference calls facilitated by co-instructor Jessica Heffernan Ziegler scheduled from October through May. In these coaching conversations\, you and your classmates will continue to hone your collaborative leadership skills\, addressing and supporting one another’s progress and challenges—and so gain further insights\, understanding\, and expertise. \nInstructors \n Joachim Ziegler\, PhD\, has been working in the fields of organizational development and human resources development since 1994. A partner in MIRA Companions for Development\, an international consulting group\, Joachim’s current list of American and international clients encompasses the banking\, pharmaceutical\, retail\, and manufacturing sectors\, as well as anthroposophical institutions and Waldorf schools. Joachim is a member of the College of Social Sciences Section at the Goetheanum and the international Association for Social Development and has taught at the University of Muenster and at Germany’s first private university in Herdecke. He holds an MA in adult education and a PhD in medical education. \nJessica Heffernan Ziegler has been the executive director of Sunbridge Institute since 2008. Her professional focus on leadership skills\, governance issues\, and personnel development are utilized both in her executive director role and in her work as co-instructor of Sunbridge’s Collaborative Leadership course and related workshops; she also teaches Waldorf school administration in Sunbridge’s Waldorf Early Childhood Teacher Education program and previously taught in Sunbridge College’s Administration and Biography programs. Jessica is a partner in MIRA Companions for Development\, an international consulting group\, and works as an executive coach and organizational development consultant for Waldorf administrators and teachers and other professionals in diverse institutions and schools in both the US and Germany. She served as the first administrator and as a board member at a Waldorf school she co-founded in Everswinkel\, Germany\, and has sat on many other boards\, including her current role as trustee for AWSNA\, for which she is also an active committee member and workshop presenter. Jessica holds a BS in business management and did her biography training with Karl-Heinz Finke and her executive coach training with SECA International. \nYour course also includes sessions on DEI topics with Meggan Gill of Sunbridge Institute and eurythmy with Alexandra Spadea of the Rudolf Steiner School. \n  \nHere’s what recent Summer Series Collaborative Leadership participants had to say about their experience: \n\nThe quality of the course was outstanding. Jessica and Joachim really made the information come alive and explained it in a way that was easy to digest. I really enjoyed when we had the opportunity to break out into smaller groups as it made for a more personal connection.\nJessica and Joachim just emanate warmth and knowledge in a space that is supportive\, inclusive and cares about our continued success. The charts and written materials provided in concert with the lectures and experiential work created a good depth and breadth with which to digest the information.\nMeggan brought a wealth of experience and created a safe space for validation of feelings around this important work. She is exceptionally skilled.\nI felt that Meggan covered a lot of material in an organized way. The subject is so vast and she has a great way of distilling it and allowing people a way in to examining our own relationship to it as a path to working with others.\nI love how practical the information is. There are plenty of actionable models and steps I can take within my own school. The portion I’ve enjoyed most was the one-on-one time I had with my talking partner (which) gave me the opportunity to delve deeper into a relationship with someone I found to be so helpful with her advice and perspectives.\nThe content has been very useful. As a school leader with a background in public education and passion for personal development\, I appreciated the weaving of Waldorf values partnered with practicality. I was able to apply the teachings in a faculty meeting the Thursday of our program and it went well\, the difference was felt and experienced by all.\nVery high quality. I found the lectures to be particularly helpful and insightful\, especially when paired with colleague Q&As.\nI found the pace and timing of each session – each a bit more intensive and deeper investigation of the collaborative leadership process – to be not only comfortable for my learning but also enlightening to me. It seemed like each day a new and brighter light shone on a concept I had experienced but never really seen before. Interspersing the break-out discussions in between each lecture was particularly satisfying to me because I find it helpful to learn in community\, dialoguing is a way to construct new meanings with others.\nI was extremely impressed with the intentions set to feel like a collaborative and connected classroom\, even in a virtual world.\nWith the classes being online\, it is perfect to have the start time where it was for those on either side of the continent.\nExcellent quality\, creative facilitators\, great tools\nThis course is the best one I have taken. It is balanced\, succinct\, realistic\, human and brings warmth to otherwise very cold and rigid themes. It went beyond my expectations!\nThe main highlight to me was how even though we all knew anthroposophy is underlying\, Steiner was mentioned a couple of times and that the mentions about anthroposophical institutions was from a human\, critical\, realistic standpoint.\nIt was worth the value and to have monthly calls included was just what I needed – super grateful that was included in the price.\n\n  \nSchedule \nThis course takes place July 21-26 in a synchronous online classroom \nALL TIMES LISTED ARE EASTERN (NY) TIME ZONE \nSunday evening\, July 21\n7:15 pm-7:25 pm: Log in for tech check and attendance\n7:30 pm-9:00 pm: First session \nMonday-Thursday\, July 22-25\n9:45 am-9:55 am: Log in for tech check and attendance\nSessions run from 10:00 am-4:30 pm\, with times for breaks and lunch\n\nFriday\, July 26\n9:45 am-9:55 am: Log in for tech check and attendance\nSessions run from 10:00 am-1:00 pm\, with mid-morning break \nNOTE: Participants should be prepared to work on course-related assignments outside of their regularly scheduled instructional sessions (including some that may be assigned in advance). A complete schedule will be sent two weeks before your course start date\, \n  \nCost\n$665 includes all materials\, follow-up coaching calls\, and a $55 non-refundable registration fee \nAvailable Discounts \n25% discount for: \n\nStudents currently enrolled in a Sunbridge teacher education program\nSunbridge program graduates\nPayments made in Canadian dollars\n\nAccounts must be in good standing and discounts may not be combined. Qualification for discounts will be verified by Sunbridge staff.   \n  \nThis course is now filled and is no longer accepting registration. Cancellations do occur\, so feel free to sign up on our waiting list if you wish to be in line for an opening.\nQuestions?\nPlease contact Barbara Vitale\, admissions and summer coordinator\, at summer@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20 \nSunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration form for refund policy.
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/collaborative-leadership-personalized-strategies-for-becoming-a-more-effective-member-of-your-leadership-team-7/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute Remotely\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:Courses and Workshops,Featured,In Process,Leadership,Professional Development,Summer Series
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Waldorf Early Childhood Education: An Immersion in the World of the Waldorf Nursery / Kindergarten
DESCRIPTION:This course is now filled and is no longer accepting registration. Cancellations do occur\, so feel free to sign up on our waiting list if you wish to be in line for an opening.\nThis week’s course will be taught remotely in real-time. Read all about Summer Series 2024. \nOpen to everyone\, including current and prospective early childhood educators\, parents\, grandparents\, and caregivers. \nJoin us for a wondrous journey! In this comprehensive course\, you’ll explore the essential elements of Waldorf early childhood education. Through the guidance of highly experienced Waldorf early childhood educators you’ll delve into child development; learn about rhythms\, transitions\, and the cycle of the year; explore the importance of play; examine the inner development of the teacher; experience circle time activities\, lessons in handwork\, art\, and movement\, and the essentials of a morning in a Waldorf early childhood setting; and develop a true practical understanding of Waldorf early childhood education. A perennial Sunbridge summer favorite\, this rich and extensive course has launched many early childhood careers. \n  \nInstructors \n \nMeggan Gill became Sunbridge’s director of education and organizational culture in 2021 and is also a member of the Sunbridge teacher education faculty. A member of Alma Partners and a specialist in diversity\, equity\, and inclusion\, she is also an active committee member and workshop presenter for AWSNA and WECAN. Meggan’s teaching experience includes most recently serving as lead toddler teacher at City of Lakes Waldorf School and\, from 2009-2020\, serving on the faculty of the Brooklyn Waldorf School\, where she led parent-and-child and kindergarten classes and was active on the Faculty Council. Prior to joining BWS\, she taught kindergarten at the Olympia Waldorf School and parent-and-child and nursery classes at the New Amsterdam School. Meggan\, who originally hails from the Pacific Northwest and is a certified yoga teacher\, earned her undergraduate degree in health sciences from The Evergreen State College and her certificate in Waldorf early childhood education from Sunbridge. \nAliya Birdoff teaches nursery at her alma mater\, the Rudolf Steiner School in New York City. Before joining the RSS faculty\, Aliya worked in the nursery and kindergarten at the Brooklyn Waldorf School and served as pre-kindergarten teacher at the Cedarwood Waldorf School in Portland\, Oregon\, where her legacy is in advancing the school’s work in Diversity\, Equity\, Inclusion and Justice. A graduate of LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts\, Aliya holds a BA in Sociology from SUNY Purchase and a diploma in Waldorf Early Childhood Teacher Education from Sunbridge. \n \nClair Boswell is a teacher—along with her mother\, noted Waldorf early childhood educator\, Laurie Clark—at Songbirds Playgroup\, a Denver-based\, Waldorf-inspired in-home program for 2-4-year-olds. She also leads parent-caregiver classes at The Denver Waldorf School. Clair\, who attended the Denver WS from kindergarten through 8th grade\, began her Waldorf career as a volunteer at a Waldorf initiative in Nepal. She then joined the faculty of the Brooklyn Waldorf School\, where\, as a kindergarten teacher\, she helped form the school leadership and shape its early childhood program. Clair did her Waldorf training at Antioch University New England\, from which she earned her master’s degree in education. \n \nGun Lee Blue is an early childhood educator teaching in the nursery at the Brooklyn Waldorf School. She is the author of Toy Making: Simple Playthings to Make for Children\, a WECAN publication born from her final project while a student in Sunbridge’s Early Childhood Teacher Education program\, from which she earned her Waldorf teaching certificate. \n  \nParticipants who took this course previously had this to say: \n\nAmazing. This is one of the best courses I’ve taken in my life.\nI am beyond grateful.\nThe class was a fun mix of lecture\, break-out groups and experiential learning.\nIt was well structured\, the faculty was exceptional and held each class with knowledge\, joy and humor. I appreciated the opportunity we were given to be broken into groups\, discuss topics and get to know more about the participants.\nI found the topics engaging\, loved the puppetry and am thankful for the library of music!\nMeggan’s class was so helpful and insightful. There were so many things about circle time that I didn’t fully understand and this course really helped me learn. I really appreciate the openness\, humor and warmth that she brings to the class.\nI really enjoyed attending lectures and the articles that were provided for homework. It was great to dive right in and begin learning more about Waldorf EC. I found everyone to be very passionate and present in the program. I found that I got something out of every class.\nIt was an incredibly insightful and grounding experience.\nNot only am I walking away with tools in my pocket\, but with a growth and awareness in myself that I was not expecting.\nThe entire course was so nourishing and fulfilling. It gave me more than I ever expected.\nI would suggest this course to all teachers and parents interested in deepening their knowledge in Waldorf EC education. It was truly eye-opening.\n\n  \nSchedule \nThis course takes place July 28-August 2 in a synchronous online classroom. ALL TIMES LISTED ARE EASTERN (NY) TIME ZONE \nSunday evening\n7:15 pm-7:25 pm: Log in for technical check and attendance\n7:30 pm to 9:00 pm: First session \nMonday-Thursday\n9:45 am-9:55 am: Log in for technical check and attendance\nSessions take place between 10:00 am and 4:30 pm (including breaks and lunch)\n\nFriday\n9:45 am-9:55 am: Log in for technical check and attendance\nFinal session takes place from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm \nNote: Participants should be prepared to work on course-related assignments outside of their regularly scheduled instructional sessions (including some that may be assigned in advance). Complete schedules will be sent two weeks before your course start date\, along with a list of materials you will need to procure for your handwork classes. \n\nCost \n$615 includes all resource materials\, yearlong access to your Google Classroom\, and a $55 non-refundable registration fee \n25% discount for: \n\nStudents currently enrolled in a Sunbridge teacher education program\nSunbridge program graduates\nPayments made in Canadian dollars\n\nAccounts must be in good standing and discounts may not be combined. Qualification for discounts will be verified by Sunbridge staff.   \nThis course is now filled and is no longer accepting registration. Cancellations do occur\, so feel free to sign up on our waiting list if you wish to be in line for an opening.\nQuestions?\nPlease contact Barbara Vitale\, admissions and summer coordinator\, at summer@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20 \nSunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration form for refund policy.
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/introduction-to-waldorf-early-childhood-education-an-immersion-in-the-world-of-the-waldorf-nursery-kindergarten-12/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute Remotely\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:Courses and Workshops,Early Childhood,Featured,In Process,Introductory,Professional Development,Summer Series
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