Facilitated by:

Shelley Paul and Jacinta Williams

Shelley Paul

provides professional coaching, strategic consulting and facilitation for school leaders and their teams. Her most recent school role was Head of Research and Learning Design at Atlanta International School. 

With more than 20 years of experience in independent/international education and adult learning, she brings a unique background and deep expertise in collaborative leadership, participatory problem-solving and decision-making, strategic process design and group facilitation to her work and engagement with school leaders, teams and communities.

Shelley is a Stanford d.school trained design thinker and team mentor. She models and facilitates ways of working that work. She will draw you a stick figure version of anything you request.  Contact: shelley@secondcircle.io

Jacinta Williams is Head of Equity and Inclusion at Atlanta International School. Jacinta is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practitioner with over 16 years of experience in education. 

As a former teacher, instructional coach, a DEI leader at a national and local non-profit organizations, and DEI consultant, she brings a wealth of context and experience with engaging individuals, teams, schools, and education-focused organizations in strategically addressing challenging and complex issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and incorporating it into systems and structures as well as programming,  teaching and learning and professional development. Contact: jacinta.williams@aischool.org

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE 2020 PROGRAM:

AISH’s Summer Seminar is a unique opportunity to reflect, connect and renew. Open to all school Heads and Deputy Heads, participants consistently rate the experience as the year’s best professional development for them as a leader at the helm. This year will be particularly special as we celebrate AISH’s 20th year of providing advocacy, support, and professional development “for Heads by Heads.” 

Relevant and personalized learning from the Seminar’s content, meaningful interaction with colleagues, support and insights from Home Groups, replicable ideas gained with HeadTalks, and the evening cultural activities, all will combine to create an unforgettable experience. 
 

THE PROGRAM 

• Intercultural Competency: the ability to deeply understand, value and adapt to cultural differences, is a mindset and a set of knowledge, skills and behaviors. How to develop this competency to facilitate every member of the community feeling seen, heard, treated fairly, and protected? Through scenarios and stories, we will explore seven dimensions of culture as well as conflict styles and intercultural conflict fluency.
  
• Racial Identity Development: Using racial autobiographies, we will utilize our own racial existence as the doorway to understanding the impact in our own lives. Examining race in the larger context of our schools, we will discuss our immediate circumstances related to unconscious bias.
  
• School Assessment and Planning: With data gathered from our contexts related to demographics, processes, systems and structures combined with the lived experience of students and staff, we will reflect on where we are, where you want to be,and chart a path forward. We will strategize for such areas as hiring diverse staff, ensuring that every member of the community feels like they belong, professional learning that achieves results in reducing biases and stereotypes, etc.
  
• We will close with commitments to support each other personally across our schools.