For students to become powerful learners, their teachers must engage in powerful learning themselves. Yet the professional learning many teachers experience is often disconnected from the curriculum, disconnected from specific students and their learning needs, and disconnected from their daily work. What’s needed is a tightly-connected systems focus, aimed at continually increasing the knowledge and […]
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Importance of Administrative Involvement
Collaborative Team Meetings, which include assistants, counselors, learning coaches and teachers, are essential in establishing a Collaborative Response Model. Administrators not only need to ensure that the time is embedded to allow these meetings to occur. Administration, whether principals or assistant principals, also play a valuable (if not critical) role in Collaborative Team Meetings when they […]
Embedding Time for Collaboration
Few would argue the merits of providing time for collaboration during the school day. However, determining how to do it is not a simple task. We acknowledge that creativity is needed when looking to create time for teams – however, there are far too many examples of schools that are making it work for this […]
Stop Doing Good Things! Focus on a Common Goal
A few years ago, we were fortunate enough to attend a few sessions with Dylan Wiliam at the Alberta Assessment Consortium’s Annual Conference in Edmonton, Alberta. One of his sessions was titled “Stopping People Doing Good Things” and our initial impression was “who travels all this way with such a major typo in the presentation […]
Making Time for Collaboration – Leaders Make it Happen!
There is no question that time is a valuable commodity in schools. Not only do we as educators try to carve out any additional minute for learning with students, the time we spend with colleagues and collaborative teams is equally valuable and seemingly never enough. In a Collaborative Response Model, the Collaborative Team Meetings are […]