Professional Greatness
NYC Public Schools Professional Development
Professional development is essential to the upgrade of any organization, but it also requires a substantial investment of time, energy, and resources. Your school 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”).
- Coaching to habituate thinking, problem-solving dispositions, and self-management as well as interpersonal skills development.
- 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
DOE Vendor ID: GLE329597
Focus Areas: Personal Development, Team Building, & Social-Emotional Literacy
AIW conceptualizes personal development as the ongoing process of development towards self-realization and effective self-management. The offerings aim to cultivate in participants advanced self-awareness, self-knowledge, and interpersonal skills, as well as foster a sense of collective well-being, all of which are essential qualities for personal and professional competency.
Listed below are the description 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.
“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.
Team Building
Team building is an essential, ongoing process for improving relations among staff and cultivating a more engaged, proactive culture and work environment.
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.
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.
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.
Customizing Your Professional Development Experience
In addition to the offerings listed above, AIW welcomes an opportunity to partner with you to design bespoke PD experiences to meet the wellness and personal-interpersonal development needs of your school community. Contact Glenda to explore possibilities.
Recent Professional Development Projects
“Sawabona” & Team Building Professional Development, Community School 134X
Key Performance Indicators:
- Community bonding—sharing stories of hardships, compassion, and resilience, and acknowledging colleagues for support shown
- Creating space: Openness, active listening, showing empathy, offering support
- Creating art and artifacts for the “Sawabona Appreciation & Gratitude Wall”
- Interdependence: engagement of all group members (e.g., fulfilling roles), active
brainstorming, respectful conflict resolution, openness to feedback
- Ideating for a Sawabona community year-round
“Exploring a Growth Mindset in Equitable Teaching,” YMCA of Bogotá, Colombia in Conjunction with Unicompensar
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.
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