Welcome!

1. Welcome! 1. Please read the card(or cards) you were given but don’t show any one. 2.Please take a Laffy Taffy and share the joke with the participants at your table. You don’t have to eat the taffy!

2. Got Data…Where’s the Team?Seven Qualities of High Performing Groups

4. Today we will address: • Coordination vs. Collaboration • Seven Qualities • Share Ideas Maintain a clear focus

5. Coordination

6. Collaboration

7. Collaboration

8. Collaboration

9. Collaboration

10. Collaboration

11. Collaboration

12. To collaborate from Late Latin collabōrāre, from Latin com- together + labōrāre to workto work jointly with others, to co-labor

13. To collaborate A mutually beneficial relationship between two or more parties who work toward common goals by sharing responsibility, authority, and accountability for achieving results. David Chrislip & Carl Larson Collaborative Leadership

14. To collaborate A process through which parties who see different aspects of a problem can constructively explore their differences and search for solutions that go beyond their own limited vision of what is possible. Barbara Gray Collaborating: Finding Common Ground for Multiparty Problems

15. Collaboration

16. Seven Qualities of High Performing Groups

17. High Performing Groups Maintain a clear focus

18. Maintain a clear focus Clear and measurable goals

19. Maintain a clear focus Clear and measurable goals Hold long-term vision

20. Maintain a clear focus Clear and measurable goals Hold long-term vision Minimize distractions

21. High Performing Groups Embrace a spirit of inquiry

22. Embrace a spirit of inquiry Ask genuine questions

23. Embrace a spirit of inquiry Ask genuine questions Avoid quick conclusions

24. Embrace a spirit of inquiry Ask genuine questions Avoid quick conclusions Develop novel solutions

25. Quick Write Improve Discuss the following questions:

26. Maintain a clear focus • Are your group’s mission and goals clear to all? • What are some things that keep your group focused?• What are some ways you handle distractions? In what ways do we . . . ? Embrace a spirit of inquiry • Given your group’s target goals, think about some “what if’s?”, “why not’s?” and other novel questions that might support your work.

27. High Performing Groups Put data at the center

28. Put Data at the Center Data focus conversations

29. Put Data at the Center Data focus conversations Formative & summative

30. Put Data at the Center Data focus conversations Formative & summative Data drive all decisions

31. High Performing Groups Honor commitments

32. Honor Commitments Learners and learning

33. Honor Commitments Learners and learning Melding of individual agendas

34. Honor Commitments Learners and learning Melding of individual agendas Consideration of all students

35. Quick Write Stregnth Discuss the questions that follow:

36. In what ways do we . . . ? Put data at the center • What are some data sources tapped by your group? • How is data used to focus your conversations; inform your progress? Honor commitments • What is most important to your group? • How are priorities selected and maintained?

37. High Performing Groups Cultivate Relational Trust

39. Cultivate Relational Trust Presume positive intentions

40. Cultivate Relational Trust Presume positive intentions Congruence

41. Cultivate Relational Trust Presume positive intentions Congruence Communication

42. High Performing Groups Seek Equity

43. Seek Equity Balance participation

44. Seek Equity Balance participation Psychological safety

45. Seek Equity Balance participation Psychological safety Cognitive conflict

46. High Performing Groups Assume collective responsibility

47. Assume Collective Responsibility Accountability: From Old French, acunter, accomputare To count up, to reckon. Answerable

48. Assume Collective Responsibility Accountability: From Old French, acunter, accomputare To count up, to reckon. Answerable Responsibility: From Latin. Respondere, to respond, obligation. A duty, an obligation, to promise in return, Capable of making moral or rational decisions on one’s own and therefore answerable for one’s behavior.

49. Quick Write Goal Discuss the questions that follow:

50. Cultivate relational trust • How would you rate relational trust in your group (on a scale of 1-10)? Seek equity • How balanced are your groups?• What voices are represented? What other resources might be important to recruit? In what ways do we . . . ? Assume collective responsibility • Share some aspect of your group work that requires and engages ALL members?