Beginning -Four Types of School Culture

Areas of Collaboration; Good Collaboration
Case Story 4


Implementation Guidelines

Challenge/
Solution

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Collaboration must take place with the overall success of these people in mind.
What is students?
100
Such teams deal with the same groups of students (e.g., all teachers of ninth graders) to focus on the curriculum and the needs of students.
What is Interdisciplinary Teams.?
100
The acronym is PLC.
What is a Professional Learning Community
100
After forming teams to work on different aspects of teaching and learning in your school, teams establish protocols. Ideally, this should be done with your decisions (and then signed by each team member).
What is written down?
100
Without a shared commitment to work together to address a common concern and a shared responsibility for developing a solution, collaboration becomes this.
What is an empty gesture?
200
Very loyal to cliques but not necessarily the school.
What is Balkanized?
200
These Relevant groups or committees frequently meet to plan and monitor curriculum sequence and coordination.
What is curriculum planning?
200
For decades, the research has been clear that these are the key to continuous improvement.
What are effective collaborative learning communities ?
200
This guideline helps team members determine (as they work on different tasks) how to alert other members of problems, situations, events, results, or other matters.
What is Communication Protocols?
200
Members who assume that their presence at meetings suffices as a gesture toward collaboration can undermine this.
What is the improvement process?
300
They recognize their crucial role in the educational process and know that they can meet the challenges confronting them only by solving problems in concert with their professional colleagues.
What is Collaborative School Culture?
300
A great school is characterized by a culture that permits open and willing sharing of ideas and respect for different approaches and teaching. It includes 2 significant characteristics.
What is trust and respect?
300
This color in Jelly Bean Research symbolizes those people who are controllers and like brownie points. For example, they get reports turned into the Central Office weeks before the deadline.
What is white?
300
Some 80% to 90% of the challenges in meetings are structural or procedural (sidebar conversations, people coming unprepared, etc.) and are not about content. To eliminate these issues, it helps to do this.
What is to standardize meeting formats, posting the “desired outcomes (dos) for the meeting at the top of the agenda, and listing the agenda and protocols for all to see and refer to during the meeting?
300
It may also be possible to ward off fatigue or complacency with groups by doing this in a meeting. (These moments can prevent disaffected members from retreating into passivity. )
What is encouraging physical activity?
400
The first order of business to address in facilitating highly productive collaboration.
What is the team needs to clarify its purpose?
400
Staff members who are interested in a specific approach or innovation (e.g., cooperative learning) form groups to research the approach, receive training, develop implementation strategies, and provide reciprocal observation, review, and evaluation.Staff members who are interested in a specific approach or innovation (e.g., cooperative learning) form groups to research the approach, receive training, develop implementation strategies, and provide reciprocal observation, review, and evaluation.
What is Teaching Strategy or Professional Interest Teams?
400
The 8 reindeer listed in the order of the song Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer ( or from Myron Larabee -Sinbad- in Jingle All the Way)
What is Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen
400
Our School Culture Triage paper is due on this date?
What is December 7?
400
When teachers understand that the end goal of their collaborative efforts— and of every meeting— is to boost student success, they tend to be much more focused and productive. Teachers can understand this goal by doing this.
What is set and clarify the desired outcome of the meeting ?---(in keeping with the larger context or purpose of the team’s overall work).
500
Teachers collaborate only on the surface without challenging one another’s beliefs or approaches to teaching and learning.
What is Contrived Collegiality?
500
This team serves as the engine driving the overall school improvement agenda.
What is School Leadership Team?
500
To be be successful, PLCs must have a firm foundation that includes: relational trust, a belief that the job can really be done, time and this.
What is the climate for teams to learn how to connect the dots through trial and error?
500
This implementation: a. Establishes Goals b. Prioritizes and Assigns Tasks c. Decides on a Sequence and Timetable of Tasks
What is Monitoring Team Progress?
500
One challenge is that people often resist change, especially when it means that they have to change. This is the solution.
What is let people see the possible outcomes?
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