A Facilitative Stance

Team Leaders ON FACILITATION

The word facilitator sticks with me because sometimes I barrel on ahead to make sure I get everything in that teachers need to know. And really, I should be facilitating conversation and learning.

— Anne, Preschool Program Director

Facilitating means bringing everybody’s voice in the room, not getting through an agenda. To walk hand-in-hand down the path forward. To give people time to think. If you hurry, somebody’s voice is going to become invisible.

— Devora, Early Childhood Program Director

Facilitation is knowing that we can build more authentic learning together as a group of co-learners, than a ‘presenter’ could alone. It is we not me. It is modeling the best practices for early childhood teaching: guiding learning with intentional questions and building relationships.

— Early Learning Program Leader

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