Facilitator's Guide

We believe that your learning experience in this course will be most powerful if you can take the course with others in a learning circle. A learning circle is a facilitated, in-person study group for learners who are all registered in the course. Your learning circle can provide you encouragement, support, diverse perspectives, and more. No one knows your school or context better than the people from there, and asking your colleagues to join you in taking this course is one step toward sparking further exploration and reflection on the purpose of high school.  

We’ve created the Envisioning the Graduate of the Future Facilitator's Guide to give you the tools you need to lead a learning circle. In this guide are suggested discussion topics and activities for meetings, but we encourage your learning circle to interact with the course in the ways that seem most valuable and productive for your needs. The way in which your learning circle engages with the course is entirely up to you.   

The Facilitator’s Guide has ideas and strategies for working collaboratively, including:

• Text for keeping participants organized
• Suggested schedules for meetings throughout the course and suggested agenda for those meetings
• Questions to prompt discussions about course content
• Strategies for making assignments and activities more collaborative