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Faculty Meetings as Opportunities for Learning:  Activities and Ideas for
Every Month

Attend this session and take away a year’s worth of strategies to transform faculty meetings into a leadership tool for capacity building!  The session will provide practical activities and ideas for every month.  The outcome of these activities will be enhanced teaching skills and a more collaborative, learning focused, positive school culture.

Participants will have the opportunity to:

• Construct a rationale for using faculty meetings as a tool for capacity building.
• Examine ways that faculty meetings can function as “culture builders” or “culture busters.”
• Practice faculty meeting activities that can be used to enhance teaching and consequently, student learning.
• Discuss ways that faculty meetings can be used as a forum to promote the sharing of successful practice and celebrate efforts that foster student learning.
• Analyze the relationship between faculty meeting activities and the development of a professional learning community.
• Reflect upon personal next steps.

Schools that support the continuing development of students also support the continuing development of those who educate those students.  Faculty meetings can be a time efficient, effective avenue for accomplishing this very important goal.