How can we work together to promote a collaborative culture in schools?

Develop Leaders:

• Provide leadership coaching

• Facilitate workshops and training​

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Develop Highly Effective Collaborative Teams:

• Coach and facilitate teams 

• Build team rapport, efficiency & efficacy

• Define team structures & using protocols

• Facilitate workshops and training

Develop Leaders:

• Engage in regularly scheduled individual and/or team coaching sessions with leaders

• Present professional learning about the “what/why/how” of leadership for school administrators and teachers via whole group, small group and individual

• Use a multi-method approach to support leaders in the implementation of organizational change and the building of a collaborative culture

• Provide resources that individuals or small groups can explore together and then follow up with the consultant 

• Engage in school-wide or division-wide assessment on the culture to identify strengths and opportunities for increasing collaboration among staff

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Develop Highly Effective Collaborative Teams:

• Lead professional learning on the characteristics of highly effective collaborative teams 

• Coach teams using the gradual release model

• Establish purpose

• Identify team norms and make agreements 

• Co-plan agendas that meet articulated goals 

• Determine appropriate protocols (e.g., look at data, including student work, text-based discussion, decision-making) 

• Identify strategies for reflection

• Serve as a “process observer” during team collaborative time

• Engage teams in reflection and assessment of the application of their collaborative practice using evidence of student learning

• Model protocols that respect, affirm, and protect the dignity of each member of the school community.

• Facilitate team and/or individual reflection, celebrate successes, and identify next steps