How do you know when the participants in your class are disengaged, uninspired, and passively waiting for you to either entertain OR punish them with assignments? What do you do to unflatten the classroom — to make learning more imaginative, participatory, and seriously playful? How do you tap into the curiosity of students in a way that invites them to shape more of their own experience, to author more of their own development?
S. Fisher Qua answers these questions through simple interaction patterns called Liberating Structures. Join us as he demonstrates how to develop and apply a repertoire of practices that immediately generate engagement, stimulate inclusion, distribute responsibility, and invite greater self-authorship in the classroom and beyond. In this roll-up-your-sleeves session, we will experience a few of the Liberating Structures that might unflatten the power within you and simultaneously help you unflatten the power of your students, peers, and schools.