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Stone Soup is the classic tale of strangers coming together to create a nourishing feast. What if a group of educators from across the country could come together regularly to create a feast of ideas and imaginings? To sow seeds of connection? To foster dialogue that nourishes themselves as well as their school communities? STONE SOUP e e The Stone Soup Seminar does exactly that.

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Page 1: Stone Soup - Team Finch Consultants · 2016-08-03 · stone-soup-seminar) or download and snail mail it to Jennifer. Applications are due by 5:00pm EST on August 31, 2016. • Participants

Stone Soup is the classic tale of strangers coming together to create a nourishing feast.What if a group of educators from across the country could come together regularly to create a feast of ideas and imaginings? To sow seeds of connection? To foster dialogue

that nourishes themselves as well as their school communities?

StoneSoup

e

eThe Stone Soup Seminar

does exactly that.

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Format Once a month teachers attend a live online meeting facilitated by Dr. Jennifer Bryan, where wondering aloud, questioning freely and collaborating with others is the task at hand. This unique learning opportunity invites participants to gather virtually, in a space designed for asking questions, sharing design and curriculum ideas, and cultivating collegial relationships.

CurriculumTo know a big question, keep it alive in your mind, and develop skill in asking it is to have a certain kind of passion and power toward navigating the world. Although we are deeply conditioned to think of what we learn as answers, big questions are something worth learning. - David Perkins

Future Wise: Educating Our Children For A Changing World

During our first meeting, members will identify a central question to shape the work of the seminar. Possible questions include:

• What happens when theory meets the perplexing realities of the classroom?

• At this stage in my career, what are my passions and purpose?

• How do I define my theoretical perspective and teaching style?

• Are there tensions between my personal beliefs and professional practice?

• When do I do my best work as an educator?• How do I cultivate healthy relationships with my

students and colleagues? • What is my role in helping diverse communities

become inclusive communities?• What makes me a teacher?

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Membership• Seminar groups are made up of PreK—12

educators. “Educator” is defined broadly and membership is intended to be diverse: classroom teachers, division heads, advisors, administrators, directors of community/inclusivity, coaches, arts specialists, dorm parents, admissions officers.

• Each group consists of eight members and is facilitated by Jennifer Bryan, Ph.D.

• There is an option to create a seminar for members of the same school community. Please contact us to discuss this customized option.

The curriculum is flexible and tailored to member goals, with materials drawn from Education, Psychology, Leadership, Spirituality, Literature and Science. Seminar “homework” requires thought and care but not a lot of time. Between meetings, members are expected to make contributions--- to our shared virtual soup pot--- that are related to the central question and a monthly theme.

REquIRED TExT: Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words by David Whyte

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Dates/Times (Fall Semester)

Stone Soup Seminar meets 5 times between September and December. Sessions 1 and 5 are 90 minutes and sessions 2, 3, and 4 are 75 minutes.Session 1 Sunday, 9/11 6:00pm—7:30pm EST

Session 2 Monday, 9/26 8:00pm—9:15pm EST

Session 3 Monday, 10/17 8:00pm—9:15pm EST

Session 4 Monday, 11/07 8:00pm—9:15pm EST

Session 5 Monday 12/05 8:00pm—9:30pm EST

The group meets virtually via Zoom, an easy—to—navigate videoconferencing platform. The seminar soup pot is located in a shared project site on Basecamp.

Application/Requirements• You can complete and submit the application

form online (teamfinchconsultants.com/what/stone-soup-seminar) or download and snail mail it to Jennifer. Applications are due by 5:00pm EST on August 31, 2016.

• Participants will receive confirmation of acceptance and further seminar details by September 5, 2016.

• Prior to the first meeting, each member will have a 10—minute one—to—one Zoom session with Jennifer Bryan to get oriented to the video and soup pot format and to identify goals for the seminar.

• Members commit to attending all 5 sessions.

• The cost of the seminar is $350 per person.

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About Jennifer BryanJennifer Bryan began her career over 30 years ago as an English teacher and then counselor at The Hotchkiss School. She earned a BA in creative writing from Princeton University and holds a master’s and

doctorate in counseling psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. As a psychologist she has practiced in numerous clinical, educational and organizational settings. She has taught at Teachers College, Smith College School for Social Work, Northfield Mount Hermon School and studied for a year at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

As founder and principal of Team Finch Consultants, Jennifer currently works as an educational consultant, helping PreK-12 communities explore issues of gender and sexuality. She understands PreK-12 schools and the work of schooling, and she deeply appreciates the multifaceted role of a teacher. In a climate of not-enough-time-to-reflect, she is dedicated to creating meaningful, inspired professional development opportunities for educators.

For more information about her publications and consulting practice,

please visit www.teamfinchconsultants.com

TestimonialsJennifer achieves several rare unions: mastery and amiability, dynamism and insight, clarity and nuance...she brings uncommon intelligence and sensitivity to her work and to the people she works with...

PETER uPHAM Executive Director, The Association of Boarding Schools

Intelligent, honorable, prepared, experienced, kind, and discerning, Jennifer employs careful listening and clinical knowledge to inform her respectful and caring engagement with people from wherever they are.

RHonDA DuRHAM Executive Director, Independent School Association of the Southwest

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...a true vocation calls us out beyond ourselves, breaks our heart in the process and then humbles, simplifies and enlightens us about the hidden, core nature of the work that enticed us in the first place.

David Whyte from Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words