Welcome to the Facilitator’s Guide
We believe that your learning experience in Launching Innovation in Schools will be most powerful if you can take the course with other colleagues from your school or learning organization. We also hope that as you learn new leadership practices in the course, you’ll use them with colleagues in your own context. To help you bring people together in your community, we’ve created the Launching Innovation in Schools Facilitator’s Guide with two goals: 1) to help you make the most of taking the online course with other colleagues, and 2) to help you bring practices from the online course to life in your own schools.
The Facilitator's Guide has two parts.
- Learning Circle Facilitator's Handbook*: A learning circle is a facilitated, in-person group of learners who are all registered in the course. You and your colleagues can work on the course online independently, and then find time to come together to discuss what you are learning. The way in which your learning circle engages with the course is entirely up to you. It might be that members of your group watch certain videos on their own time and discuss those videos in-person. Maybe your group does assignments together each week. Your learning circle can interact with the course in the ways that seem most valuable and productive. The Facilitator's Handbook has ideas and strategies for working collaboratively, including:
- Emails and messaging for getting and keeping participants organized
- Video discussion questions- Conversation starters for discussing the Voices in Practice videos and the presentations from Peter and Justin
- Strategies for making assignments and activities more collaborative
- Ways of making the most of your shared time
- Activity Take-Out Packages: Throughout the course, Peter and Justin will share leadership practices that help teams launch innovation together. We’ve modified many of these practices so that they work well for our online community, but we also hope that you’ll adapt them and use them with colleagues in your own schools. Take-Out packages provide facilitators tips and other resources for leading these practices in your own community.
Access the Facilitator's Guide here.
*The Launching Innovation Learning Circles Facilitator's Handbook is based on P2PU's Learning Circles Facilitator Handbook.