Bower(schools) Information for LESNW Learning Communities
We are pleased to share an update from bower(schools). Below, you will find an outline of the professional development opportunities on offer in the coming months, followed by an updated copy of the bower(schools) prospectus.
bower(schools) professional development:
Free | 10.00am – 4.00pm | Friday 25, July
Connect. Collaborate. Participate.
Conference Details HereFree | 30-minute session
Book a free 30-minute session with the team to discuss the complexities you are currently addressing and inquire into how bower(schools) can help you.
Book Your Free Session TodayBook into one of our monthly sessions to hear how schools currently manage children and families with complex needs and the importance of systemic collaboration. The next free session is on Thursday 7 July from 1.00pm – 1.30pm ACST.
Reserve Your Spot HereTerm 3: Introduction to Systemic Practice for Schools
Cost | 10-week course (30hr)
Schools are vital interprofessional hubs for the support of all children, including those with complex needs, despite never being designed to function as such.
This course helps educators and leaders move beyond looking at a problem as located inside an individual, in isolation, with short-term strategies and solutions and aims to develop systemic thinking to navigate the complexities. Learn the protocols and method that underpins the bower(schools) approach to managing the inclusion of complex needs within schools.
To register for the 10 weeks, contact Lisa Wolff, Director of bower(schools), directly and discuss costings for individuals and groups.
Learn the practice and theory of bower(note)™ in a full-day, face-to-face workshop. Participants will have the opportunity to analyse a case study that directly relates to their school context through the bower(method)™ framework for thinking through complexity.
bower(note)™ is a transformational protocol for the conduct of all meetings. It provides structure and process for meetings that maximises the quality of information produced in a meeting, the documentation of that information, and the prevention of that information from being lost, protecting all parties in the process.
- Provides powerful contractual management and is best embedded in policy and procedure.
- Cost effective and administratively efficient, removing duplication.
- Remediates the fundamental inequalities that constrain problem resolution.
- Aligns responsibility for problems with the authority to produce solutions.
- Outcome driven with an eye to change
- Ameliorates the misunderstandings and differences central to complaints.
- Aligns the boundary between health, education and human services providers and promotes broad collaboration.
- Manages student, parent, and school disputes and staff / leadership issues.
- Deals directly with dysregulation, violence, abuse, and self-harm.
- Transparent, inclusive, contemporaneous and legally protective.
- A communication, recording and intervention process.