Accelerator: teachers and students as Learning Based Organisation
“The best way to know another is to understand your experience” ( Stephen L. H. Murphy-Shigematsu, Psychology of Education, Stanford University)

Course
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution" (Hill, 2014).
Coaching Strategies support teachers and students’ agency during challenging times and challenging learning, systems thinking approach to sustainable learning, support school culture of cooperation and trust. Coaching strategies to move away from teachers’ burnout (as well as students learn out), and to support school development. What students and teachers learn in the classroom matters(Karin O’Brien). Lessons as opportunities to make up your own mind ad make “democratic decisions with respect to humans and more than humans rights” indifferent of the circumstances out there not under their control.
The course is an Action Based Learning/ Experience Based Learning that will encourage:
- Access learning at your own pace & have a supporting framework
- Create peer learning & share learning space with other teachers
- Follow and apply tools – for each module in your real class environment
- Accelerate learning with reflecting back on your own work/ prototyping
- Learn by journaling and systemically micro self assessing
What can you get at the end of the program?
If you are a teacher with keen interest in performing school culture, wellbeing of your teachers and students and expanded community of learning, strengthening coaching competencies to support your 21st century education school culture for autonomous teachers and students, if you support practicing unlearning as much as learning for critical thinking and decision making capital of teachers, self-regulation & co-regulation for new learning ways and education, you can expect a context to practice toolkit for Coaching Strategies with Systemic thinking approach.
Program
Module 1
Practicing multiple perspectives – U school model for 4.0 schools (emerging leadership)
Module 2
From a mindful to heartful education- education of 21st-century (practicing active listening, centered listening, as school leadership)
Module 3
New Emergent School Leadership- stewardship ( from school prototyping to crystalisation); Innovation Context
Module 4
Diversity and Inclusion – “immunity” to change, artful communication skills
Module 5
Social capital in 21st century education- decision-making ability & act
Team

Andreea Gatman – ICF certified Coach , ICF Team Certified Coach, U Lab from MIT practitioner, Trainer in Helsinki for programs like New Learning Ways & Spaces- What next in Finnish Classroom?, School Development, Best Practices Benchmarking in Finland and Estonia. Humphrey Fellowship in Thriving Communities at Peabody College of Education, Vanderbilt University (2023-2024).
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Accelerator: teachers and students as Learning Based Organisation
- Trainers: Andreea Gatman, Tonya Aurto, Sofia Sfakianopoulou
- Start date: 19th May 2025
- End date: 23rd May 2025