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The Pittsfield School District Courage to Teach Journey

The Pittsfield School District began its Courage to Teach journey in November 2010.

Courage to Teach is always invitational.  There is never a directive demanding participation. Courage to Teach is a facilitated retreat program in which cohorts of educators gather for a two year series of seasonal retreats to reflect on their lives and work and the meaning their work has for them and those whose lives they touch.  In large and small group dialogues and in journaling and personal reflection using poetry, reflective practices and writings from a variety of wisdom traditions, facilitators lead participants in the creation of safe spaces for inner work which will impact their work in the world. 

Three Elements Essential to Creating Collegial Communities

• Introducing topics of conversation that move beyond technique

• Establishing ground rules for deep conversation

• Institutional arrangements that promote “good talk about good teaching.”

Four Stages of Social Change

• Deep commitment to live “divided no more”

• The development of communities of congruence

• Going public with values and commitments

• Fostering the emergence of a system of external and internal rewards to sustain the movement’s vision and to put pressure for change on the standard institutional reward system.

NH Courage & Renewal looks forward to continuing the Circle of Trust journey with the Pittsfield teachers
and staff who are enrolled in our Courage to Teach program.

The Pittsfield Session Schedule

Our sessions will be held at the Centennial Hotel in Concord

Welcome Back to a New School Year

Year II Schedule

November 18 and 19, 2011
January 10, 2012
March 9, 2012
May 18 and 19, 2012

Directions to the Centennial Hotel

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