In the 2012 summer, we will offer two different Summer Institutes:
1. The 3RDspace Summer Leadership Institute in Creativity & Innovation is like no other learning space you’ll ever know! Through a partnership between the CoLab, Piasa Bluffs Writing Project and the Saint Louis Art Museum, in the 3RDspace, site leaders will learn to harness the human-centered wisdom in the ResponsiveDesign™ model to explore,
envision & enact innovative approaches tostrengthen and/or transform their site work. With this design-thinking approach, leaders will playfully build and confidently test prototypes for site leadership, programs and cross-site collaboration.
The 3RDspace Institute will focus on and support site leaders to: Explore their site’s daunting problems with site leaders through radical collaboration. Envision transformational Invitational Summer Institutes, Professional Development for Schools and Continuity Models. Enact those plans by building to learn and testing to fail.
More information coming soon. Download informational 3RDspace Brochure.
2. Our Invitational Summer Institutes are important pathways for every teacher! Every summer, the CoLab engages in an exhaustive “talent search” for passionate, creative and visionary teachers to invite to the Piasa Bluffs Writing Project Invitational Summer Institute (ISI).
We will hold two 2012 Invitational Summer Institutes. APPLICATION COMING SOON!
The ISI’s are fueled by a nucleus of powerfully interacting domains of Inquiries
into My Practice; Teacher as Writer and Reader/Theory-Learner and Maker; Teaching Practices as Technologies; Interacting with and Learning from Phenomena; and Exploring, Envisioning & Enacting informed brave possibilities. These domains emerge in the work and actions of the ISI and they help to ground, explain and push everyone’s existing understandings of our professional selves and the kinds of teacher-learners we each want to become. And this is accomplished collegially with each Fellow acting as teacher, accomplished through the Inquiries into My Practice.
Inquiries into My Practice – The Heart of the Matter: We can grow tremendously when we interact with and learn from each other’s professional knowledge base. To enact this, Fellows narrow their focus on content and or a teaching practice they have previously taught, or possibly even a new lesson they would like to try out with their peers in a process we call Inquiries into My Practice (IiMPs). Through a tightly unfolding process, we call 3X2, each IiMP takes on a familiar formatted process. Powerful connections, and lucid insights, are made during the ISI, not only fellow to fellow, but as each fellow shares their IiMP. What an opportunity provided fellows in a place where they can examine what they do, how they do it and what impact their lesson will have on their audience. Each IiMP deepens the learning and discussions then ensue as to what happened, how it happened and then what implications there are for fellows as to how they, too, can use parts of the IiMP. IiMPing becomes a natural expression of as fellows engage in conversations before and after, further increasing the level of teacher leader momentum.