The Education Network’s programs focus on skills that make it possible for people to transform complaints into committed action, to form extended partnerships, and to generate a focus which inspires extraordinary action over the long term. These abilities can be contributed swiftly and effortlessly to the classroom, the principal’s office or committee meeting. Our constituents are enabled to create classrooms, committees and departments in which the unprecedented happen.

The Education Network programs are designed consistent with key principles of life-long learning: inquiry, personal vision building, and mastery. With the leader’s support, the participants engage in deep questioning of well-established patterns of thinking and working. They have the opportunity to examine old notions and practices, opening up fresh approaches to what used to be considered unchangeable situations. Through discussions, exercises, and practical applications, participants develop the ability to engage in the kind of difficult, challenging, and provocative thinking that generates innovations, distinct from rehashing and rearranging old formulas.

As a result of their participation in The Education Network’s programs, people develop the skills to:

• Establish commitments that inspire the best from themselves and others;
• Act creatively when a pathway for reaching commitments is unclear;
• Form and manage relationships that have the capacity to deal with complex issues, disagreements, and widely divergent points of view;
• Communicate in a way that develops alignment with others, inspires cooperation, and builds unimaginable partnerships;
• Hold themselves accountable for the kinds of results that fuel continual improvement; and,
• Put themselves at risk by working on projects that will produce significant long-term benefits to children and families, but offer little short-term gratification or credit.

Since offering our first training programs in 1986, The Education Network has established a track record, with thousands of people, of producing unpredictable results in education while reducing stress and frustration, and increasing satisfaction and fulfillment.

The Education Network’s multi-level curriculum allows participants to determine the degree of proficiency they wish to attain in the technology. Participants are encouraged to develop themselves to the extent necessary to fulfill their commitments in education. They may avail themselves of the training for their direct accountabilities, to support others in education through specialized coaching or to be able to teach the technology directly. The core curriculum is designed to provide a basic level of proficiency for a relatively wide audience. The more advanced programs are designed to deepen and extend the training of individuals in positions of leadership.