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School Improvement Specialist Training
August 3-4, 2011Holiday Inn Express
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TEAM ORGANIZATION & COMMUNICATION
Mary Lu MacCorkle & Lisa Youell
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Improving Schools One Teacher at a Time
Individual growth does not ensure organizational growth. Organizations need more than well-developed individuals. Effective leaders focus on developing the culture and the collective capacity of the organization.
Center for Creative Leadership (2003)Michael Fullan (2007)Richard Elmore (2006)
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Individual Growth Does Not Ensure Organizational Growth
Student achievement gains and other benefits are influenced by organizational characteristics beyond the skills of individual staff. We saw schools with competent teachers that lacked the organizational capacity to be effective with many students. The task for schools is to organize human resources into an effective collective effort.
Newmann and Wehlage,(1995)
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Administrative Team
School Leadership Team
Collaborative Team
Focus Team(s)
Student Assistance
Team
Local School Improvement Council
Collaborative Team
Collaborative Team
Collaborative Team
Faculty Senate
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School Leadership Team
Collaborative Team
Collaborative Team
Collaborative Team
Collaborative Team
Administrative Team
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Communication
•Principal•Assistant Principal• School Improvement
Specialist
Administrative Team
•Principal•Assistant Principal•Team Leaders for each
Collaborative Team
School Leadership Team •Math Team
• Science Team•Reading LA Team• Social Studies Team•Arts Team
Collaborative Teams
•Principal •Assistant Principal•Team Leaders for each
Collaborative Team
School Leadership Team •Principal
•Assistant Principal• School improvement
Specialist
Administrative Team
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School Improvement Teams Defined
Each of the teams described has multiple functions. This document outlines only those functions that apply to school improvement.
Read over the team descriptions and discuss at your tables.
Give us your feedback.
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School Leadership Team
Uses a distributed leadership model (sharing leadership responsibilities across the organization) to support the work of teacher collaborative
teams. The leadership team is made up of school administrators, one
member from each teacher collaborative team and others at the
principal’s discretion.
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Collaborative Teams
Teachers are organized into collaborative teams on the basis of shared
responsibility for addressing the critical questions of teaching and learning with
a particular group of students – for example, by content, course or grade
level. Team members work interdependently to achieve a common goal for which each member is mutually
accountable.
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What Makes a Group a Team?
They all own shared goals Members are interdependent
organized around a process, each performing a critical function required for success
They work collaboratively and purposefully to achieve the goals
There is accountability WITHIN the team
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Groups do not become teams
by accident!
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Roles & Responsibilities
Table Jigsaw Table distributes Roles and Responsibilities
of Teams amongst members Individually read assigned section:
half read School Leadership Team and Team Leaders
half read Collaborative Teams and Team members
All read the information in the box Come back to whole group and share out
the part that resonated with you
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QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS
CONCERNING ROLES &
RESPONSIBILITIES?
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Collaborative Team Structures Focused on Learning
The fundamental question in organizing collaborative teams is, “Do the people on this team have a shared
responsibility for responding to the four critical questions of learning in ways that enhance the
learning of their students?”
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Organized by Content
Math Team
Reading - Language Arts Team
Science Team
Arts Team
Social Studies Team
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Grade-level Teams
PreK-K Team
First Grade Team
Second Grade Team
Third Grade Team
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Vertical Teams
PK – 1 Team
2-3 Team
3-5 Team
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Logical Links
Math-Science Team
Reading-Social Studies
Team
Language Arts-
Technology Team
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Interdisciplinary Teams
6th Grade Math, Science,
Social Studies & Language Arts
7th Grade Math, Science,
Social Studies & Language Arts
8th Grade Math, Science, Social
Studies & Language Arts
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Making Time for Weekly Collaboration
• Build Common Preparation Time into the Master Schedule
• Parallel Scheduling• Adjusted Start & End Time• Shared Classes • Group Activities, Events & Testing• Banked Time• ISE (PD and Faculty Meeting Time)
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Table Talk…Questions to Ponder
Do your schools have the structures in place to support collaborative teaming?
Do the collaborative teams have time to meet on a weekly basis?
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Team Organization & Communication
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Do You Know What Your Teams Are Doing?
We have structures in place and we have time to meet…NOW WHAT?
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Collaboration
The purpose of collaboration--to help more students achieve at higher levels—can only be accomplished if the professionals engaged in collaboration are focused on the right work.
Learning By Doing
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Case Study
Learning By Doing First edition: pages 89 – 91
Second edition: pages 117-118
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ScenarioThe Principal of a middle school had worked tirelessly
to promote collaboration and had taken a number of steps to support teachers working together:
• He organized each grade level into an interdisciplinary team.
• He created a schedule that gave teams time to meet together each day.
• He trained staff in collaborative skills, consensus building, and conflict resolution.
• He emphasized the importance of collaboration at almost every faculty meeting.
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Teams Focused On…
• the behavior of a student who had become increasingly disruptive
• strategies for achieving their team goal of reducing disciplinary referrals for tardiness to class
• a lively debate about whether or not members should accept late work from students, and if so, how many points they should deduct for each day late
• roles and responsibilities of each member to ensure all the tasks associated with an upcoming field trip were addressed
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What Advice Would You Give?
How can we provide the parameters and framework to ensure teams use their collaborative team time in ways that have a positive impact on student learning?
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What are your schools’ teams
doing?
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Bring Information to September 29th Meeting: