Collaborating for Change During and Beyond COVID-19: The Promise of a Developmental Approach - Webinar by Ellie Drago-Severson
05th October 2020, 4pm GMT
We are living, teaching, learning, and leading in the context of ultimate adaptive challenges. Today—perhaps more than ever before—we need to support each other and collaborate even more effectively as we navigate the urgent global challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and create, together, futures grounded in racial and educational justice. How might you better support others and yourself during these unprecedented, complex and ever-changing times? Investing in supporting adult learning, collaboration, and building capacity is one promising pathway forward.
This webinar offers an opportunity to pause and even more deeply consider the promise of supporting others and ourselves by employing a constructive-developmental approach when collaborating. After all, collaborating and engaging in meaningful conversations require all of us to not only be open to learning together but also can help us grow. This webinar offers a framework and practical strategies to strengthen collaboration and engage in conversations that cultivate capacity of one another.
This webinar offers an opportunity to pause and even more deeply consider the promise of supporting others and ourselves by employing a constructive-developmental approach when collaborating. After all, collaborating and engaging in meaningful conversations require all of us to not only be open to learning together but also can help us grow. This webinar offers a framework and practical strategies to strengthen collaboration and engage in conversations that cultivate capacity of one another.
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Ellie Drago-Severson, Columbia University, USA
Ellie Drago-Severson is Professor of Education Leadership and Adult Learning & Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she is also the director of the PhD program in Education Leadership and the director of the Leadership Institutes for School Change. A developmental psychologist and internationally certified developmental coach, she teaches, researches, and consults with schools, districts, leaders, instructional coaches, and teachers on team and leadership development domestically and internationally. Dr. Drago-Severson is the author of bestselling books Helping Teachers Learn (2004), Leading Adult Learning (2009), Becoming Adult Learners (2004), and Helping Educators Grow (2012) and coauthor of Learning for Leadership (2013), Learning Designs (2015), Tell Me So I Can Hear You (2016), and Leading Change Together (2018). Currently, she and coauthors Pat Maslin-Ostrowski and Jessica Blum-DeStefano are writing Leaders’ Internal Experiences With Challenge and Change (forthcoming), which is based on their longitudinal, mixed-methods research with leaders domestically and internationally. In addition—along with coauthors Jessica Blum-DeStefano and Deb Brooks-Lawrence—Dr. Drago-Severson is examining how leaders’ internal capacities influence the ways they lead on behalf of social justice and equity (Sage/Corwin, forthcoming). This research aims to articulate a developmental continuum that can help leaders and those who prepare them. Dr. Drago-Severson’s work has earned awards from the Spencer Foundation, the Klingenstein Foundation, and Harvard, where she served as a faculty member for 8 years and was awarded the Morningstar Award for Excellence in Teaching. Recently, Dr. Drago-Severson received three outstanding teaching awards from Columbia University. |