Professional Learning CommunityCreating Collaborative Culture

Bringing Focus to Professional

Learning Community

Creating Collaborative Culture

• Talking with one another about their practice

• Sharing their craft knowledge

• Observing one another while they are engaged in their practice

• Rooting for one another

S. Hord & W. Sommers, Leading Professional Learning Communities, pg.11

Why Collaboration?

“The most successful student learning occurs when teachers find solutions together.” (pg. 25)

Professional Learning Communities: Communities of Continuous Inquiry and Improvement

Create a symbolic representation about collaborative culture based on the following definition........

Defining Collaborative Culture

Definition of CollaborationCreating Common Language

A systematic process in which we work together, interdependently to analyze and impact professional practice in order to improve our individual and collective results. Dufour, Dufour, and Eaker

“Little happens in a relationship until

individuals learn to trust each other.”

(David W. Johnson)

Building Trust

Make a T Chart

• Behaviors/ Processes that build trust

• Behaviors/ Processes that diminish trust

Importance of TEAMS????

You Tube, Teamwork Funny CTS Connecthttp://youtu.be/1qzzYrCTKuk

Team vs Group

• Identify the characteristics of a group • Identify the characteristics of a team• Compare

Solution Tree: Rick DuFour on Groups vs. Teams, http://youtu.be/0hV65KIItlE

7 Stages of the Team Performance Model

1. Orientation: Why am I here?

2. Trust building: Who are you?

3. Goal clarification: What are we doing here?

4. Commitment: How will we do it?

5. Implementation: Who does what, when, where?

6. High performance: Wow!

7. Renewal : Why continue?• Drexler, Sibbet, & Forrester, 2009 as cited in Journal of Staff Development,VOL.30 #5 , Ginny Lee pg. 46

•What teams do you have at your school? •What is their purpose in working towards the common vision?

•What makes these teams effective or ineffective?

•Are the teams/groups there by tradition or are they established to work towards the school improvement goals?

•How do you assess a teams’ effectiveness?

What is the purpose of teaming?

• Are your teams focused on re-culturing and do they have a willingness to work together in continuous improvement processes?

• Do you need to restructure?• What action steps are you going to when you go back to your school?

Elements of an Effective TeamElements of an Effective Team

Cultural Shift

Creating Time

Create a Plan of Action

Together we CAN!

The Power of Teamwork by Scott Beare & Michael McMillan, Simple Truths http://youtu.be/VhnylkfKUH4