- enhancing the abilities of your school’s decision-making teams and committees by using our School Team Building Process Manual below;
- having a team building professional development opportunity or seminar on transformative decision-making;
- introducing your entire school to our school transformational process with a Tribal Rhythms Celebration Performance;
- using the Tribal Rhythms Curriculum as a gateway for bringing this school transformation process into the classroom; and
- discovering how the PWSC helps schools attain Massachusetts state mandates and school district goals.
The manual gives school members, education commissions, and skilled consultants from many fields the power to successfully have difficult conversations on every imaginable topic or issue. It gives schools and education commissions the capacity to govern themselves and eliminate unnecessary hierarchical structures. The manual opens the decision making process to more people and establishes educational teams and bodies of great ability.
Having these abilities are critical, because no education body can be better than the the decision making qualities of the committees and school teams that make it up. This manual provides four critical skills:
Lacking these skills school communities cannot work together effectively enough to close the achievement gap or preparing students to humanely succeed in the global marketplace. With a consultant, this manual can be reformulated to provide the four skills above for educational commissions, teams, or boards. Here is the order form for our team building manual.
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From this professional development development session, participants will gain:
In every professional development opportunity the School Team Building manual’s author will lead the session, and the manual will be used to augment the training. Here is booking information that links you to our Professional Development Opportunity.
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The PWSC offers interactive seminars, lectures, and keynotes for grade schools, colleges, and education conferences. Its presenters are available to speak on the following five topics:
Consensus Decision-Making, and Meeting Management Skills in a learning setting;Each presentation is designed to give event 
participants the capacity to make changes in their K-12 schools that are constructive and needed. All our artists, educators, and school change coaches are skilled event presenters who have extended experience working in achiev- ing and underachieving school settings. They are lead by the PWSC’s founder who for four decades has overseen the development implementation of our school transformation process. These captivating speakers thoroughly engage participants emotionally and intellectually. Here is the booking information for our seminars and large audience presentation.
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The Tribal Rhythms Celebration is a fantastic way to introduce K-6 school staff, parents, and students to the spirit and values of the PWSC’s school transformation process. With its magical blend of music, dance, and dramatic stories, the Tribal Rhythms Celebration is fun and a guaranteed icebreaker that brings people together.
The celebration is the first step towards the establishment of the Classroom Learning Tribe, the gateway through which the transformation 
process enters the classroom. Children and adults become part of its unfolding stories. They create music on handmade musical instruments, perform the dance of the mysterious creature, and practice classroom group building activities that establish their Classroom Learning Tribe. Since 1970, this magical experience has introduced hundreds of thousands of school members to a learning strategy that combines thinking and feeling and academic and social learning. Tribal Rhythms is a Creative Teaching Partner of the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC). Link to booking info. <www.tribal-rhythms.org/tr_celebration.htm>
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"The developers of Tribal Rhythms have created an original and powerful tool for helping children be their most humane and human." Freda Rebelsky, Ph.D., Professor of Deve- lopmental Psychology, Boston University
"Everything is extremely clear and well-presented in a sequenced, logical order." Susan Nutting, Classroom Teacher
The Tribal Rhythms Curriculum has proven classroom and group management techniques, group building activities, and twenty easy-to-do community building music, dance, drama, and visual arts activities. These offerings help K-5 teachers bring the relationship, intimacy, group-building capacities of our Neolithic ancestors into the modern classroom. These arts-based offerings help students and teachers work together to create simulations that teach complex academic lessons, concepts, and real life situations.
The Tribal Rhythms Curriculum is your “tool” for working with your students to build their Classroom Learning Tribe. The curriculum utilizes the Tribal Rhythms Council Circle, the first circle time strategy and the most effective, because of its lifelike simulations that tap the power of the performing arts. These simulations establish an extended surrogate family setting that develops habits that enhance learning. The curriculum shows how to use the tribe concept as both a framework and a community context for enhancing teaching and learning. Its whole-body learning activities integrate the child's thoughts and feelings (Cognitive Affective Coupling) and teaches students the values of caring, cooperation and respect. Here is the order form for our Tribal Rhythms curriculum.
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To negotiate large bulk orders or for special rush orders, call Curtis Jones at 617-524-6378,
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Costs for each two and a half hour session:
One professional development session (20 person limit) ………… $275.00 (plus transportation cost)
One professional development session (20 person limit) plus 5 manuals at $18.00 each …………........................................ $365.00 (plus transportation cost)
One professional development session (20 person limit) plus 20 manuals at $16.00 each…….............................................. $595.00 (plus transportation cost)
If you want to contract this offering and/or adapt it in some way, e-mail us, or call Curtis Jones at 617-524-6378 and request our Leadership, Group Consensus, and Decision-Making Professional Development Opportunity.
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WE PRESENT THE FOLLOWING FIVE TOPICS IN THREE WAYS:
1. A One To Two-Hour Lecture, Seminar, or Keynote:
Choose one of the five topics above that will be presented by the PWSC founder and a PWSC School Change Coach. They will utilize simulations and arts-based group-building techniques to present these topics. There will be many opportunities for authentic dialogue with the presenters and your colleagues.
The presentation will give event participants the capacity to take a leadership role in the school change process. The fee for the lecture, seminar, or keynote is $1,235.00, plus transportation cost.
Email us to schedule a seminar, lecture or keynote, or call Dylan Seo at 617-524-6378, and request one of the five topics you want us to offer in this presentation. Would you want it in lecture, seminar, keynote, or other format? It is up to you.
2. A Three-Hour Seminar:
Choose one of the five topics above that will be presented by the PWSC founder, one School Change Coach and two artist/educators. These presenters will engage the audience in a highly participatory hour long performing arts experience that brings people together, helps the audience bridge theory and practice, and expresses the spirit of our school transformation process. The performance will segue into an engaging series of mini lectures interspersed with a captivating simulations and group building activities. There will be opportunities for authentic dialogue during free flowing question and answer sessions. The presentation will give event participants the capacity to take a leadership role in the school change process. Plus, they will acquire the tools and insights to implement leadership, group consensus, and meeting management skills in a school or other learning organization setting. The seminar fee is $1,995.00, plus transportation cost.
To schedule a seminar, email us or call Dylan Seo at 617-524-6378, and request one of the five topics you want us to offer in our Three-Hour Seminar format.
3. A Six-Hour Seminar:
Choose one of the five topics above that will be presented by the PWSC founder, one School Change Coach and two artist/educators. This exciting daylong intensive is for those who want to deepen their understanding of the topic they have chosen, and master the core skills the seminar teaches.
The first half of the event is the three-hour Seminar described above. In the second half, participants practice leadership and leadership support, consensus decision-making, and meeting management skills using simulations, role-play, and small group discussions and activities. There will be opportunities for authentic dialogue during free flowing question and answer sessions. The presentation will give event participants the capacity to take a leadership role in the school change process. They will acquire the tools and insights to implement leadership, group consensus, and meeting management skills in a school or other learning organization setting. They will also learn the skills to transfer these school transformation skills to others. The seminar fee is $2,995.00, plus transportation cost.
To schedule a seminar, email us or call Dylan Seo at 617-524-6378, and request one of the five topics you want us to offer in our Six-Hour Seminar format.
Classroom teachers overcome their students’ speaking, reading, and writing challenges by using the arts and other expressive modalities to draw out feelings and insights students want to talk about, read about, and write about. For a project description, visit this web page, and see the photos below.
