Month: March 2013

Why We Retreat as a Team

Why We Retreat as a Team

Reading Time: 2 minutes

On Monday, the West Wind Education Policy team – including our colleague who telecommutes from 2 hours away – gathered in the West Wind offices for a staff retreat.  We do this twice yearly and spend one to two days working together side-by-side.  During this retreat we spent the first part of our day focused on our social media strategy for ourselves and our clients and partners.  During the afternoon we spent some time discussing how we physically work together and how we could best use our space and the tools we have to make our work stronger and grow our relationships. Continue reading “Why We Retreat as a Team”

Adult Learning

Adult Learning

Reading Time: 3 minutes

Have you given much thought to how you learn? When you are planning learning experiences to help other professionals learn new knowledge and skills, are you using practices that will make a difference?

Always on the look-out for research on professional learning, I was pleased to discover a study by Carl Dunst and Carol Trivette (2012)[1] that examines the effectiveness of evidence-based adult learning practices. These researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 58 randomized controlled design studies of four adult learning methods – accelerated learning, coaching, guided design, and just-in-time training. Continue reading “Adult Learning”

Theme: Overlay by Kaira