This training for schools extends the learnings of Search Institute’s introductory education training Building Developmental Assets in School Communities. Designed to take a school community even deeper into asset building, this 6-hour workshop emphasizes organizational change—going beyond personal commitment to engaging your whole school in asset-building efforts.
Participants delve deeper into the three theme areas introduced in Building Developmental Assets in School Communities: building relationships, creating environments, and connecting to school programs and practices. They examine all kinds of relationships, participate in activities that affect school climate and norms, and look at strategies and programs that foster growth in the internal assets. They then look at ways to create a movement to change their school communities into asset-rich places. Finally, each participant or team creates a concrete action plan for moving asset building deeper into their schools, incorporating strategies for continuing to build awareness of the Developmental Assets more broadly, as well as for addressing more deeply a manageable few assets that relate to local goals, circumstances, or data.
As a result of this training, participants will
- renew their commitment to the importance of personal transformation (individual change) as it relates to asset building and describe how that supports organizational transformation;
- identify elements of and steps in the creation of asset building movements in school communities;
- identify organizational strategies for strengthening asset building using relationships, environment, and educational programs and practices;
- develop a plan to move their school communities forward more deeply and systematically in their asset building efforts.
Who Should Attend: Teams of people from any part of a school community: school administrators, teachers, counselors, school board members, parents, students, youth development professionals, and others. Participants need to come to the workshop already having a working knowledge of the developmental assets. It is highly recommended that participants
already have attended the Building Developmental Assets in School Communities training,
since the concepts presented in this new experience build on those of that workshop.
Length: 1 day.
Recommended Materials for Each Participant: Each participant needs to be conversant in the book Great Places to Learn. Each training team will receive Get Things Going, Best of Building Assets Together, and Ideas That Cook:. All other content is provided as handouts.
Questions?
Email: vision@fairpoint.net
Phone: 800-294-4322
Fax: 207-642-6274
Mail: PO Box 338
Gorham, ME 04038
