Find out how I incorporated a World Cafe into a district-wide AIG night for rising 9th graders and parents.

2. World Café: Using dialogue to
market your IB Programme
Rachael Moyer
Saturday, 25 July
11:15 - 12:30
Ontario

3. A little about me
• English teacher (18 years)
• TOK teacher (8 years)
• IB DP Coordinator (4 years)
• CAS and EE Coordinator (4 years)
• Secondary AIG Specialist (2 years)
• Appalachian State University Doctoral Candidate (1 year)

4. How do we feel about leading
professional meetings?

5. What we don’t want

6. What we fear

7. What hope for

8. Summer 2013

9. Fall 2014

10. So what is this method anyway?
An open-ended, structured approach to dialogue

11. History
The World Café approach to strategic dialogue created by Juanita
Brown and David Isaacs
• Incorporates simple principles
• Encourages engagement
• Inspires collaboration
• Fosters critical thinking
• Embodies shared-leadership
The World Café can be used “as a vehicle for social innovation
and positive change” (The World Cafe, 2012).

12. Appreciative Inquiry
• Approach to organizational learning and development created
by David Cooperrider
• What works
• What brings life and vitality to an experience
• What is possible for its evolution
Source: Cooperrider and Srivastva, 1987

13. Core guiding principles
1. Set the context
2. Create a hospitable space
3. Explore questions that matter
4. Encourage everyone’s contribution
5. Connect diverse perspectives
6. Listen together for patterns and insights
7. Share collective discoveries

14. The purpose of the World Café
“It is time for us to engage in those conversations more
intentionally.”
• “How can we enhance our capacity to talk and think more
deeply together about the critical issues facing our
communities, our organizations, our nations, and our
planet?”
• “How can we access the mutual intelligence and wisdom we
need to create innovative paths forward?”
Source: p. 33, Brown & Isaacs, 2005

15. Conversational Leadership
Source: Hurley & Brown, 2009

16. Hickory Public Schools AIG Night
and World Cafe
Rachael Moyer
IB Coordinator
Secondary AIG Specialist

17. What I Did
• Asked permission from district administration
• Sent out invitations
• Asked for regrets only
• Invited a guest speaker for parents
• Invited representatives from colleges, summer enrichment
programs, honors societies, etc.
• Explained the process to my juniors/seniors
• Students developed questions
• Created signs and place cards for tables
• Set up for the night

18. Necessary for Table Leaders—World
Café Discussion Cheat Sheet
• What do you mean by the term ____________?
• Is this what the author intended?
• How do you relate that to the text?
• Do you agree with ______________?
• Why do you take that position?
• What are the assumptions (explicit or underlying) of video?
• Does this video have a message to covey?
• Why do you say that?
• To check on listening: Jane, what did Richard just say? What’s your reaction to that idea?
• Inference. Fill in missing information, based upon a reasonable extrapolation of evidence in the text.
• Hypothesis. Predict and justify future developments.
• Reflection. How do you know what you think you know? What are you left not knowing? What are you assuming?
• Can you think of an example to illustrate this point?
• Is the writer’s example a good one? Why/why not?
• By what reasoning did you come to that conclusion?
• What would you say to someone who said __?
• Are the reasons adequate? Why?
• What led you to that belief? Teacher Seminar Resources 9
• How does that apply to this case?
• What would change your mind?
• Who is in the position to know if that is so?
• Why did you say “they?”
• What view would be in opposition to what you are saying?

19. Our World Cafe
• Theme
• Social Justice
• Format:
• Introduction
• 3 Rounds of a jigsaw
• Collective harvest

20. HPS AIG Night

21. HPS AIG Night

22. HPS AIG Night—The harvest

24. Mini World Café—Round 1
Discuss with those near you--What information do you plan
to take back to your home schools?

25. Mini World Café—Round 2
Discuss with someone from the other row--What do you hope
to learn (that you have not already) before you leave?

26. Mini World Café—Round 3
Discuss with someone beside you--What are your foodie
recommendations for Chicago before we leave?

27. The Harvest
What is the coolest factoid that you heard in today’s session?

28. So…What are your final
thoughts?
Where do you think that you could use this method of conversation?

30. Personal Guiding Philosophy

31. Resources
• www.theworldcafe.com
• www.ibo.org
• Conversational Leadership
• Appreciative Inquiry in Organizational Life
• The World Café: Shaping Our Futures through Conversations
that Matter

32. Contact Information
Rachael Moyer
moyerra@icloud.com
@moyerteacher
https://about.me/moyerteacher