Teams are continually learning how to learn together. / Administrators along with teachers are learners – questioning, investigating, reflecting and seeking solutions.
Teams have a core of shared beliefs and values.
Teams are committed to the importance of learning.
Teams engage in substantive, intellectual discourse focused on improving assessment and instruction.
Organizer #1: Collaborative Learning Culture
Elements … / Evidence … / What actions …?Teams review and analyse a variety of data – hypotheses are generated, inquiry and action research regarding student learning areinitiated and results are monitored.
Teams are engaged in individual learning and development as coaching and mentoring from administrators and other experienced colleagues are provided.
Teams include staff members who are reflective practitioners.
Teams continually expand their capacity to create the results they desire – new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured.
Teams publicly share work.
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Teams and individuals engage in professional learning that ensures the development of competencies of reflective practice and collaborative learning.
Teams establish norms and hold each other responsible and accountable for continual improvement.
Teams are involved in co-planning, co-teaching and co-assessing, sustaining the culture of inquiry.
Teams ensure that adequate resources are allocated for learning in terms of time and space.
Teams engage in constructive discussions leading to new approaches when faced with lack of success and unintended outcomes.
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Teams operate as learning communities in which sensitively expressed dissent, conflict and debate are encouraged as positive sources of learning.
Teams experience a high level of psychological safety and trust; they can rely on colleagues to be honest, caring and respectful.
Teams build trusting relationships with a no-fault, no-blame problem solving approach. They can analyze problems and try new solutions without fear of rejection by peers.
Teams of learners build a professional knowledge base through reading, researching and connecting to the broader educational community.
Teams use social networks, wikis, blogs and Twitter to facilitate learning and document progress.
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Teams including system leaders and teachers share a common core of values and beliefs that guide programs and practices, including high expectations for all students, education of the whole child and the expectation that all students will be successful.
Teams understand the importance of relationships and the part relationships play in the difficult decision-making, problem-solving tasks that a faculty must address.
Teams access community assets to both support and engage families in support of students.
Teams judge their effectiveness on the basis of student learning and achievement. Student learning is the anchor for the teacher inquiry process.
Teams ensure that successes are celebrated.