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CHAPTER THREE

THE SECRETS TO PREPARING

Know Your 5 Ps

Questions Answered in This Chapter

What are the most important steps in planning for a facilitated session?

What are the key questions that you need to have answered?

With whom should you speak to get prepared?

What do you ask participants about the session?

How can you be sure that you are well prepared?

CASE STUDY: The Principals’ Conference
We were working with a large urban public school system. The superintendent asked that we sit in on a meeting of a team that had been working for several weeks on the design of a principals’ conference on academic standards. We were to review the ...

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