BLC17

An important goal for any school administrator who wants to successfully involve the school community in the decision making process, should be to honor the ideas and concerns of those within the community. This can be achieved by engaging your stakeholders in a simple, focused process of asking questions—questions that serve to guide future actions. In this session, participants will come together in a “faculty meeting” to explore the questions behind a new school-wide initiative using the Question Formulation Technique. This streamlined questioning technique encourages divergent thinking, but at the same time, it brings focus to what you choose to explore in your schools. Additionally, this same technique can immediately be taken from the faculty meeting and into the classroom to invigorate the learning process.