http://cjay.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org weblog Wed, 06 May 2009 11:55:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Who can believe the end of the semester is here already? Certainly not me! With each subsequent class in the program, the time seems to fly more quickly. This semester especially was a blur for me, probably because I was out for a couple of weeks following the birth of ... http://cjay.edublogs.org/2009/05/05/what-ive-learned-about-organizational-change/ Take me to your leader...  so I can convince him you need an Appreciative Inquiry session.     Megan, Jennifer, Andrea and Grace facilitated the last of our change strategies this week - a beautiful Appreciative Inquiry.  I have to say this felt a little awkward at first, commenting on the positives, tooting ... http://cjay.edublogs.org/2009/04/17/ai/ Just wanted to say this week that Carol, Mike, Buddy and Suliman did a great job on the Open Space Technology facilitation!  I wasn't sure at first how it was going to turn out when we were tasked to come up with sessions on Outrageous Leadership, and everyone seemed to freeze ... http://cjay.edublogs.org/2009/04/05/wide-open-spaces/  One faces the future with one's past.   ~Pearl S. Buck Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.  ~Percy Bysshe Shelley The future is made of the same stuff as the present.  ~Simone Weil Our group facilitated our Future Search Conference in class this week:   “The Future of Enrollment in the MEd in Adult Learning Program ... http://cjay.edublogs.org/2009/03/26/the-search-is-over/ I knew when I started the semester it would be an extremely challenging one for me.  Having a baby in the middle of your second to last semester in grad school is what some would consider crazy, but I figured I could knock out two classes while I was home ... http://cjay.edublogs.org/2009/02/12/baby-blues/ Wednesday night we were able to get our group assignments for facilitating one of the change strategies.  I was happy to hear I got my first choice - Future Search.   I've been interested in it ever since I heard Dr. Carter describe her experience hosting a Future Search Conference when ... http://cjay.edublogs.org/2009/01/30/to-infinity-and-beyond/ Welcome back, Your dreams were your ticket out. Welcome back, To that same old place that you laughed about. Well the names have all changed since you hung around, But those dreams have remained and they're turned around. Who'd have thought they'd lead ya (Who'd have thought they'd lead ya) Here where we need ya (Here where ... http://cjay.edublogs.org/2009/01/20/welcome-back/    Well, the semester has finally come to a close. It actually seemed like a short one this fall. I have to say it was certainly an enjoyable one. Having a fairly small class of people that mostly knew each other kept converation flowing and interesting. I feel like most of ... http://cjay.edublogs.org/2008/12/11/reflections-for-my-mirror-when-the-partys-over/ I've always been interested in astronomy, space, NASA, imagining what lies beyond our wildest imaginations...  In fact, as a kid, I watched Carl Sagan's Cosmos series in the early 80's pretty religiously.  My dad was a high school science teacher and my stepmother taught astronomy, so the pursuit of scientific ... http://cjay.edublogs.org/2008/12/01/reflections-for-my-mirror-space-case/ This week, Schein's chapter 16 about the conceptual model for change, with its unfreezing, restructuring and refreezing really spoke to me.  Firstly, I love the simplicity of the languauge with which Schein describes the whole change model.  I think the three steps are described so succinctly by those three words.  It makes so ... http://cjay.edublogs.org/2008/11/19/reflections-for-my-mirror-help-im-melting/