Pedagogy of Presence
- The adaptation of Theory U for K-12 school settings has been a highly effective method for providing teachers with tools that create authentic connections to students, each other and their work, generate more humane and effective classrooms, and increase the achievement of high level personal and professional goals.
- Teachers have consistently expressed a desire for more meaning in their teaching and are eager to have access to a program that increases connection in their daily classroom experience.
- Cross-sector stakeholders are interested in partnering with their colleagues in education to explore the creation of locally sourced schools in support of sustainable, resilient communities.
Micro-processes- Cultivating Internal Conditions
Within the current context of schooling, we are engaging teachers in classrooms right now with a method and process for a Pedagogy of Presence in the form of a 12 session self-study program. This approach provides teachers with inquiry-based tools to identify and overcome obstacles to achieving the goals most urgent to children’s enduring success. Through the systematic examination of teacher intention and action and an engaged realignment of teaching practice, teachers individually and collectively have the opportunity to create vital, sustainable learning connections regardless of immediate external conditions.
Macro-processes- Cultivating External Conditions
We are working to shift the conversation at local, regional, and national levels about how the US thinks about and approaches education. We bring together established and emerging cross-sector leaders nationally and internationally to discuss the larger question of the purpose of education in this country. The intention is to create the opportunity for new thinker-leaders-visionaries to imagine a systemic approach to education that is truly 21st Century and to create the condition for this new vision of education to emerge.
- Teachers, administrators, parents and children have a powerful set of tools and practices for clarifying, sharing and enacting that which is urgent and meaningful for them individually and collectively.
- Access to these tools and practices are supported by local, regional and national collaborations between educational institutions and businesses throughout the US with the Pedagogy of Presence and Systematic Self Study organizations acting as facilitator and connector.
- A new generation of cross-sector leaders are working together to develop new and renewable models for delivering powerful educational experiences to children in communities across US.
- These leaders are informed by and in conversation with cross-sector leaders globally.
- Prototyping partners to refine and grow the school-based Systematic Self Study program
- Cross-sector visioning partners to participate in on-going conversations about locally sourced, sustainable models of education within the new economy
- Mentors and interns (especially in the areas of finance and business development)
- Long and short term funding partners
- For us to succeed, your visionary projects must also succeed. Please tell us how we can help you!
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Collapsing educational and economic systems in the US require new models, new practices and new leaders to emerge. Presencing provides a powerful framework for rethinking and renewing both pedagogical and economic approaches to educating our children for an emerging future.
