Collaborative Teams
Articles
Collaboration: Partnering with Colleagues, Families, and Caregivers to Promote Student Success
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District, leadership, and teacher teams might use this resource to examine whether their team exhibits the skills necessary for effective collaboration and identify the “Go-To Moves” needed to improve collaboration. This resource also includes suggestions for conducting “hand-off” meetings or empathy interviews with students’ families and caregivers in order to understand students’ learning needs.
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High-Level Practices in Special Education: Collaboration (Council for Exceptional Children)
Collaborating with Families (IRIS Center)
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Summary
This article provides information and resources for fostering greater collaboration with colleagues, families, and caregivers to promote student success.
DeHartchuck, L. (2021, August 3). Collaboration: Partnering with colleagues, families, and caregivers to promote student success. National Center for Learning Disabilities. https://www.ncld.org/reports-studies/forward-together-2021/collaboration/
Creating Consensus for a Culture of Collective Responsibility
Summary
This resource is a free reproducible from the book, Simplifying Response to Intervention: Four Essential Guiding Principles.
According to authors Buffum, Mattos, and Weber, a culture of collective responsibility is based on two fundamental beliefs:
The first assumption is that we, as educators, must accept responsibility to ensure high levels of learning for every child.
The second assumption is that all students can learn at high levels.
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District and school leadership teams might choose to discuss the six critical questions in this resource in order to create consensus for a culture of collective responsibility aligned with the two fundamental beliefs posited by Buffum, Mattos, and Weber.
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Adapted from Buffum, A., Mattos, M., & Weber, C. (2012). Simplifying response to intervention: Four essential guiding principles. Solution Tree Press.
From Staff to Team: 5 Practices that Encourage Collaboration to Improve Student Performance
Summary
In this School of Thought Blog from the National Association of Secondary School Principals, 2020 Wyoming Principal of the Year Jeff Makelky shares 5 practices that he believes encourage a high level of collaboration and collective efficacy.
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District and building leadership teams might choose to complete the worksheet individually prior to reading the blog and then read and discuss the blog for information on ways to encourage a high level of collaboration and collective efficacy within their staff. After reading the blog, teams might consider dialoging around the whole group discussion questions on the post reading worksheet in order to identify any action steps that might be taken.
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Makelky, J. (2021, January 21). From staff to team: 5 practices that encourage collaboration to improve student performance. National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). https://www.nassp.org/2021/01/21/from-staff-to-team-5-practices-that-encourage-collaboration-to-improve-student-performance/?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=SocialSnap