Administrative Services

JANUARY Professional Learning Opportunity for Leaders

"Our conversations invent us. Through our speech and our silence, we become smaller or larger selves. Through our speech and our silence, we diminish or enhance the other person, and we narrow or expand the possibilities between us. How we use our voice determines the quality of our relationships, who we are in the world, and what the world can be and might become. Clearly, a lot is at stake here." ~ Harriet Lerner, The Dance Connection

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Jennifer Abrams

Program: ALT

Date: January 7, 2020

Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Location: Region 10 Spring Valley (Bowie & Crockett)

Jennifer Abrams formerly a high school English teacher and a new teacher coach, Jennifer Abrams is currently a communications consultant who works with educators and others on new teacher and employee support, being generationally savvy, effective collaboration skills, having hard conversations and creating identity safe workplaces. More about Jennifer’s work can be found on her website, www.jenniferabrams.com, and she can also be found on Twitter @jenniferabrams.

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Having Hard Conversations

As administrators, coaches or colleagues, we often come up against situations where difficult topics must be addressed. What do we know about the best strategies for those moments? What questions should we be asking ourselves before we speak, and what environments are best for when we do speak? Based on Jennifer’s book, Having Hard Conversations, and her work with conflict and interpersonal communication, this session will provide participants with action plans and scripting tools for having those necessary hard conversations.