About ivonprefontaine
In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms.
I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders.
I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs.
I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry.
I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry.
I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope, nonviolence and its anticipatory relationship with the future, as essential elements to teaching and learning.
Academic publications can be found at Ivon Gile Prefontaine on ResearchGate
Teacher as Transformer 
A child’s innocence is like the smell of a new born… untouched and pure, hoping to be encouraged, and not dirtied by others.
Beautifully and poetically stated. Thank you Steve.
Excellent!
Thank you.
Innocence is sooo beautiful !
You are soooo right Swati.
beautiful image.
Thank you for stopping and commenting. I took a tour of your blog and look forward to following your journey.
Take care.
Thank you for the kind words. Your blog is beautiful, creative and informative, keep up the good work 🙂
Thank you and you are welcome.
Being able to see the world with the eyes of a child is a great gift to have.
It truly is.
Please accept and READ about this award.
http://prayingforoneday.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/rose-of-kindness-award-3/
Shaun
Thank you Shaun. This is appreciated.
My pleasure my good man