“Working with Angela is an absolute pleasure–she is thoughtful, flexible, and incredibly organized. She is generous with high-quality resources she creates and easily adapts to meet the needs of her audience. Every interaction with her is inspiring.”
— Bonnie R, Project Coordinator
Over the last few years, Angela Stockman has quietly rebuilt the way she offers and designs her professional learning services. Some of you have noticed, and more than a few friends in facilitation work have reached out to her as they reimagine their own purposes and place in education.
The savviest among us have been reality-testing plans for quite some time now, as tectonic shifts began happening underneath the surface of all of the accomplishments and high-fives that so many tend to share, but few are talking about those more painful shifts openly.
Why? It's a bit terrifying, and it's made everyone more competitive than collaborative. Posturing and performative posting are wearing everyone out (as consumers and producers of such content).
Some of us also have an awful lot to lose. Angela does not, and so she is willing to extend herself in a way that might make some uncomfortable. Everyone can benefit from this courageous conversation!
Attending this session with Angela, you will:
Discuss your experience in educator professional learning
Explore new strategies that bring back the excitement of this work
Take away ideas to refresh and invigorate professional learning for colleagues and stakeholders
Design can be purposefully playful, the work can be more interesting, learning can stick better, and relationships can go deeper, all because stacking the professional learning we design holds space for what matters, making more time to come to know one another!
Angela Stockman is an independent professional learning facilitator, consultant, and practitioner-researcher with more than three decades in the field. Her work spans K-16 education and the private sector, with focus areas in multiliteracy instruction, learner-centered pedagogies, and systems change. She designs and leads complex curriculum and assessment initiatives across districts and organizations, teaches a graduate course in action research, and runs The Intentional Facilitator, a cohort-based program for experienced facilitators who want their work to land more deeply in the systems they serve. Her writing on professional learning, AI in adult learning contexts, and the distinction between staff development and true facilitation reaches educators and consultants across multiple sectors.
What grounds her work is a practitioner-researcher orientation: she studies her own facilitation as carefully as she studies the rooms she enters, and she treats resistance as information rather than an obstacle to manage around. Her current research examines what shifts when AI becomes part of how adults learn together, and what those shifts ask of the people designing those experiences. She comes to conversations like this one as a peer rather than an expert, more interested in the questions that have not yet been asked well than in the answers already catalogued. After decades in this work, she is still finding things in it she did not see before, and she expects the same of the rooms she has the privilege of joining.
Join Angela on Tuesday, July 28th at 4:00 p.m. e.t.!
Please note: this is a live, interactive event.
AI bots and automated attendees will not be admitted.
