Collaborative Teams

Purpose

• Improving Instruction for All Students

Purpose

• Ensure that All Decisions are Based on Increasing Student Success and Achievement

Purpose

• Best Practices in All Classrooms

How Will The Teams Help?

• Sharing Practices You Are Currently Using

How Will The Teams Help?

• Implementing Effective Instructional Strategies

How Will The Teams Help?

• Combining Findings from Hard and Soft Data

How Will the Teams Help?

• Utilization of Formative Assessments, Allowing for Adjustments Before Summative Assessments

Who Will Guide the Process?

• You’re the Professional!

Who Will Guide the teams?

• Decisions Should be Formed Using Data, but Driven by Your Style, Passion and Choice

Collaborative Team Formation

• Grouped by Content

Collaborative Team Formation

• Teams Will Meet During their Common Planning Period
• Teachers Will Attend the Team Meetings for All of Their Subjects
• Please Send Me Your Planned Schedule; Meeting Twice a Month

Collaborative Team Formation

• Teams can have a Shared itslearning Course (Items Can be Copied into Individual Courses)

General Guidelines for Each Meeting

• Teams Will Discuss Students’ needs and Design Instructional Strategies to Meet Those Needs
• Focus on Formative Assessments to Guide Instruction (You can Use Larger Assessments as ell)
• The Team Will Decide upon Their Goals, Timing, Strategies and Assessments

General Guidelines for Each Meeting

• Complete Team Member Attendance
• Complete “Focus of Collaborative Planning” Boxes
• Complete “Team Meeting Minutes” (Brief Summation of Discussions)

General Guidelines for Initial Meeting for a Specific Goal(s)

• Complete “Key Questions to Consider”

General Guidelines for Initial Meeting for a Specific Goal(s)

• Complete “Next Steps” {You can Change these as Your Group Moves through the Goals}

General Guidelines for Final Meeting for a Specific Goal(s)

• Submit All Logs (Our Target is a Minimum of Two Goals per Quarter)

General Guidelines for Final Meeting for a Specific Goal(s)

• Submit Any Evidence and Artifacts

Why...

• Our Students Deserve Our Best
• Alone We Are Strong, Together We Are Stronger