Growing as Leaders with Jennifer Abrams

About this workshop:

Overview
Workshop 1: There Is An “I” in Team: Bottom Line Skills For Creating a Healthy, Professional School Culture
It is critically important for a healthy, professional school culture, and for student growth that we strive to develop ourselves, not just as educators, but also as emotionally intelligent, psychologically mature systemically aware human beings. What can we do to be bigger and better versions of ourselves? This workshop, based on Jennifer’s new book, Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing (Up) at Work, will introduce us to adult developmental theory and to five focused ways we can develop ourselves at work.

• We will build our skills to:
  • know ourselves and our identities
  • better suspend our certainty and think with greater complexity and openness
  • take increased responsibility for our language and communications
  • engage with reciprocity and live ‘out loud’ our belief of mutual respect for all
  • build our resiliency and work on our emotional hygiene

  Workshop 2: Engaging in Reciprocity: Being a Value Add Team Member

  • As an individual team member, your ability to collaborate, your willingness to engage thoughtfully and respectfully with the collective, and your capacity to engage in reciprocity are critical to the work you do in schools. These skills matter for teaching, the health of the school, and the collective well-being of all who are taught and work in a school. This workshop reviews the research around the need to engage in reciprocity and digs into the mindset, skills and capacities to do so effectively.

Workshop Leader Biography: Jennifer Abrams
Jennifer Abrams is an international educational and communications consultant for public and independent schools, universities and non-profits. Jennifer trains and coaches teachers, administrators and others on new teacher/employee support, having hard conversations, collaboration skills and being your best adult self at work.
In her over two decades at Palo Alto Unified School District (Palo Alto, CA, USA), Jennifer was a high school English teacher, new teacher coach, and professional development facilitator. She left PAUSD in 2012 to start her full time communications consultancy in which she works with schools and organizations across the globe.
Jennifer presents at annual North American-based conferences such as Learning Forward, ASCD, NASSP, NAESP, AMLE, ISACS and the New Teacher Center Annual Symposium among others. Internationally, she facilitated with the Teachers’ and Principals’ Centers for International School Leadership (TTC and PTC) and presents with EARCOS, NESA, ECIS, AISA, AASSA, CEESA and Tri-Association, and consults with schools across Asia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and Canada.

Refreshment Break: coffee, tea, bottle waters, snack and fruits
Lunch: school lunch on Sept 18-19, 2026

Workshop on Sept 18: USD 450 (RMB 3200) per participant
Workshop on Sept 19: USD 450 (RMB 3200) per participant
Workshop for Two days : USD 820 (RMB 5800) per participant
Early Bird：  10% off discount before 01/05/2026
Paypal Payment:6.8% fee applies

Refund Policy:

• • If the workshop is canceled for reasons beyond our control and we are unable to find a suitable alternative time for most participants, IES will inform participants of the cancellation and refund the actual paid registration fee only, additional expenses (such as hotel accommodations, transportation, etc.) are not eligible for refunds.
  • If a registered participant notifies IES before20/08/2026 that he or she cannot attend or transfer registration to another person or event, IES will issue a refund of the actual paid registration fee. However, if this notification is received after 20/08/2026, IES will not issue a refund.
  • A 2% transaction fee, charged by the payment platform (not the organizer), will be deducted from any refunds.
  
  Certificate:E-certificate signed by Jennifer Abrams will be issued after the workshop