The School Board of SarasotaCounty
Collaborative Planning Guidelines
Collaborative Planning Definition:
A research-based professional dialogue between two or more staff members working interdependently to develop and achieve common goals that are focused on the following: continuous improvement of student performance, professional practice, and/or the achievement of school improvement goals.
Collaborative Planning Team:
The Principal is responsible for assigning all teachers to collaborative planning teams.
Collaborative Planning Team Procedures:
(1)The collaborative planning meeting topics will be teacher-driven.
(2)A facilitator will be designated for each collaborative planning group.
(3)The facilitator will develop the agenda using teacher-generated topics and maintain meeting documentation using a simple checklist.
(4)Collaborative planning support members (i.e. literacy coach, data coach, technology trainer, ESE liaison, ESOL liaison, administrators, guidance counselors) may attend meetings as a resource. They may also request topics to be added to the agenda.
(5)Collaborative planningmay involve grade level teams, departments, academy teams, SLC teams, etc.
(6)Collaborative planning teams will establish ground rules/norms.
(7)Collaborative planning time will be protected and members are expected to attend.
(8)If a subgroup of a collaborative planning team is formed for a specific purpose, the subgroup will report activities to the facilitator.
Collaborative Planning Team Activities:
(1)Review the SCSB Curriculum
(2)Map out curriculum scope and sequence
(3)Analyze summative data (FCAT, NRT) of students
(4)Develop lesson plans and units
(5)Share best instructional practices, resources and lessons
(6)Develop or identify pre-assessments and common assessments
(7)Analyze formative data from common assessments and benchmark assessments (progress monitor grade level/SLC students)
(8)Use data to progress monitor each student
(9)Align data with instructional best practices to impact student learning
(10)Discuss effectiveness of lesson plans – what works, what doesn’t
(11)Share proven instructional/behavioral strategies and classroom activities
(12)Analyze student work and completed assignments
(13)Plan academic and behavioral interventions for groups of students (RtI)
(14)Discuss shared readings about research-based best practices
Additional Collaborative Planning Activities for Interdisciplinary Teams:
(1)Develop interdisciplinary units, with integration of lessons across disciplines to tie all curricular areas together
(2)Share plans for instructional support of another content area
(3)Reinforce, support and enhance each other’s curricular areas
(4)Infuse career themes into lessons
(5)Develop Advisory/Community of Caring instructional activities
(6)Develop a team instructional master calendar (dates of quizzes, tests, common assessments, projects) when working with a common group of students
Support for Collaborative Planning:
(1)Training will be available in the following areas to enhance the collaborative planning process with a common language:
- Facilitative Leadership-type training
- Collaborative training for team members (process training)
- Training for Administrators
(2)Collaborative planning will be defined in the Instructional Bargaining Unit Contract.
(3)At the beginning of the school year, each collaborative planning team will establish a weekly meeting schedule and share it with the Principal. Administration will support and protect collaborative planning time.
(4)Collaborative planning will be instructionally focused, data-driven andtied to instructional practices.
(5)If the assigned collaborative planning team is not a good instructional fit, the teacher may discuss with the principal a reassignment to a different collaborative team.
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