What is the Self-Renewing Congregation?
This is an excerpt from The Self-Renewing Congregation by Isa Aron. Aron argues that the effectiveness of an organization is dependent on the synergy of its members. She […]
How to Change
Guidebooks, diagram/logic charts, protocols, and text studies.
Think Tank 1: Questions Generated—How Can We Support Educational Innovation Aligned to Vision?
The following questions were generated by Think Tank participants as they worked to develop principles and practices that support educational innovation aligned to a congregation’s educational vision. Questions […]
Think Tank 1: Principles and Practices Generated—How Can We Support Educational Innovation Aligned to Vision?
This document contains principles and practices generated by Think Tank participants as they worked together to understand best ways to support educational innovation aligned to a congregation’s educational […]
Express Innovation: Faculty Professional Development Webinar 1
This is a webinar about faculty professional development. It discusses: how to outline goals; why and how to engage faculty—through creating a shift in belief, or by deepening […]
RE-IMAGINE Professional Learning: Task Force Agendas
RE-IMAGINE Professional Learning outlines three sessions for a task force to re-imagine professional learning in alignment with the congregation’s vision and the innovations currently underway. The first of […]
The Five Whys: A Leadership Team Exercise
This exercise uses the fictional example of Congregation Beth Tzuris to explore how leadership teams can uncover ‘root causes’ of recurring problems in congregational systems. The exercise could […]