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Photos except where noted by John Pinderhughes
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Champion Creatively Alive Children Series
Creativity
Communication
Arts-Infused Education Advocacy
PLUS
The 4 Cs: 21st Century Skills
Creativity Connects Us
Creativity Connects Schools with Families
Creativity Connects the World
Critical Thinking
Collaboration Working in partnership with others toward a common goal
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Objectives for Collaboration Workshop
What we will be
doing together…
Participant
expectations…
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4 Kinds of
Creative Collaboration
for Schools
Creative collaboration between the
school and the broader community
Warm-Up Exercise
Creative collaboration among students
Creative collaboration among faculty
Creative collaboration between
educators and parents
Photo by eMedia Works
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4 Cs of Collaboration
Common Goal
Contributions
Compromise–Consensus
Creative, Collaborative Culture
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Dispelling Myths
Myth
When students study or work
together, it’s “like cheating.”
Reality When students collaborate, they learn
valuable skills.
Assertive, popular students
take over and shy, less
popular students are left
behind.
With skilled instruction, collaborating
enables children to share what they
know and can do with others with
whom they might not routinely interact.
Collaborative learning
experiences are hard for
teachers to grade.
Self- and peer assessments show how
students handle conflicts, distribute
workloads, provide feedback and
contribute.
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COLLABORATION VIDEO
http://www.crayola.com/creativelyalive
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Four Cornerstones of Collaboration
Group Exercise
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Common Goal
Do collaborators
understand the
shared objectives
and their roles
when they work
as a group or
on a team?
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How are individual contributions and abilities to work
as a team assessed?
Contributions
Are the talents and skills of everyone in the group leveraged?
Is everyone given the opportunity to make contributions?
Do you assign roles that play to individual strengths?
Are diverse points of view solicited and welcomed?
How is feedback used to improve collaboration?
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Compromise–
Consensus
Do collaborators have opportunities
to share constructive feedback?
Do collaborators know how to
compromise and reach consensus?
Is the decision making process
clear? If no compromise or
consensus is reached, who
makes the ultimate decision?
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Creative,
Collaborative Culture
How is conflict handled? Are
disagreements handled respectfully? Photo by eMedia Works
Does the group have strategies to make
sure everyone contributes—without some
people dominating or others left out?
Is there a culture of creative collaboration
—an environment in which people
respect one another’s ideas and nurture
creative expression?
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Team Sculpture
Challenge
Hands-On Exercise
This timed exercise gives teams
experience in using the 4 Cs of the
collaborative process…
• The objective is for your team to
build the Tallest Upright
Standing Tower of Geometric
Shapes. Use Crayola Model
Magic® and use all 4 shapes:
spheres, cubes, cones and
pyramids.
• For 8 minutes work together to
assemble your shapes into the
tallest sculpture possible,
making sure that it stands
upright.
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Team Sculpture
Challenge
Hands-On Exercise
Collaborative Process
After the teams completed their
towers, discuss the process of
working together:
• Did all team members understand
and work towards a common goal?
• Were roles clearly defined?
• Were individual contributions
respected and fully used?
• Was any compromise or consensus
reached?
• Who was the ultimate decision
maker?
• How would team members rate their
collaborative culture?
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Draw Your Collaborative Culture
• Does the culture feel supportive or divisive?
Hands-On Exercise
• Do group members share a common goal?
• Are individual contributions respected
and fully used?
• How are conflicts handled?
• Is there a process for compromise
and consensus building?
• Who are the decision makers?
• Who has input into decisions?
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Assessing Creative Collaborative Culture • Reflect on the collaborative
culture shown in sketches.
• Use the Collaboration Assessment
Handout as a tool to deepen the
discussion.
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Key Points
The role of educators, parents and community
members is to collaborate for students’ success,
develop students’ collaboration skills and foster
a culture of collaboration. Photo by eMedia Works
Collaboration is a fundamental 21st century skill.
The arts give people a context for collaboration
—and an engaging way to learn together.
The 4 Cs of collaboration—a Common Goal,
Contributions, Compromise–Consensus
and a Creative, Collaborative Culture—help
us understand the key elements of collaboration
for students and adults.
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Thank you for your work as you
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For additional resources including arts-infused lesson plans visit:
Crayola.com/educators