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Effective Teacher Teams: One School’s Journey to Success

Join us as we share our journey to building successful teacher teams. Learn strategies that can be replicated to enhance collaboration at your school. Discover our community school in NYC, founded 14 years ago as part of the small schools movement. Engage in structured professional collaborations promoting shared leadership and improved student learning.

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Effective Teacher Teams: One School’s Journey to Success

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  1. Effective Teacher Teams: One School’s Journey to Success By: Erica Zigelman &Veronika Kiss

  2. Goal Participants will follow our journey to teacher team success and learn strategies they may replicate at their school.

  3. We are a community school in NYC founded 14 years ago as part of the small schools movement under Former Chancellor Joel Klein and Former Mayor Bloomberg. • We were recently consolidated with another school in the building- MS 322 SULA • We have 411 students. • 43%of our student population are English Language Learners • 26% of our student population are Students With Disabilities (15% of whom are ELLs). About Us

  4. As Stated In Our Most Recent Quality Review 4.2 Engage in structured professional collaborations on teams using an inquiry approach that promotes shared leadership and focuses on improved student learning Area of Celebration, Rating:Well Developed Pack and Stack! About Us

  5. Select one piece of candy you feel describes your experiences with teacher teams thus far. Discuss with your table and be prepared to share with the whole group. • Why did you chose that particular piece of candy? • How does this candy best represent your experiences? Icebreaker

  6. Teacher Teams Role-Playing Activity As a team of teachers: Read and discuss the three quotes. Choose the quote that you feel best describes the need for teacher collaboration. You will also be provided with a role card. While conducting the activity please assume the teacher role on the card. 4. Please do not share your card with your table mates.

  7. Activity Debrief • Turn and talk with your group: • What were your noticings? • What are your wonderings? • How could your group’s conversation have been more productive?

  8. Recognizing Ourselves in Our Role-Playing Activity Share

  9. “Schools cannot achieve the fundamental purpose of learning for all if educators work in isolation” (DuFour, DuFour & Eaker: Revisiting PLCs at Work). “...own individual limitations , including our capacity to do the amount of work that needs to be done and our individual scope of knowledge and skill set” (E. Aguilar: The Art of Coaching Teams). “Teams not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations”(P. Senge: The Fifth Discipline). “Teamwork means you never really have to take all the blame yourself” (Stephen Hawking). Why Teacher Teams?

  10. Read the article High-impact Meetings. Highlight, annotate, make notes on the parts that stood out for you. • Be prepared to engage in a professional group discussionabout the text. What Makes an Effective Teacher Team: Understanding High-impact Meetings

  11. Engage in a professional group discussionabout the text and create a chart representing your group’s ideas and findings. • Consider the following: • What was important? What stood out? • What do you believe should be your school’s next steps? • What structures do you already have in place which have a positive impact on teacher teams? What Makes an Effective Teacher Team: Understanding High-impact Meetings

  12. Whole Group Share-Out Commenting on High-impact Meetings and Chart Sharing • What was important? • What stood out? • What do you believe would be your school’s next steps? • What structures do you already have in place which have a positive impact on teacher teams?

  13. Design for Success: Our Journey • We started slow, one grade at a time • Teams must have a clear purpose. • Teacher Team Leads • Be strategic about who is on the team. • Support & guide your team and its leader (feedback). • Teachers should establish team norms. • Teacher-led differentiated grade activities. • Do not shy away from functional conflict. • Personal accountability.

  14. Atlas Protocol

  15. Monitoring & Participating in Teacher Team Meetings • Make sure you have sacred time, keep time and location the same. • Memorialize meetings (Team Binder with all calendared dates, info and data). Have your own way to document meetings (Calendar, Notetracking, etc) • Check in with the teams. If you are unable to attend the meetings, make sure your APs do. Be an active listener and participant. • Schedule a time to meet with the Teacher Leaders.

  16. Next Steps • How would youbring this work back to your school or refine this work based on today’s workshop. Consider the following: • Who/which grade to start with? • When? • What’s your next step? • Possible roadblocks • and how you would overcome them.

  17. THANK YOU FOR COMING! QUESTIONS & RAFFLE

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