Highly Effective Teaming Session Facilitators Jacob Glancy La

Highly Effective Teaming Session Facilitators: Jacob Glancy, La. Sheryl Jones-Hall, Trip Nicholson, Melissa Wrenne

Opening Moves: Who Are We? Have you ever? Agenda Review Logistics Norms 2

Objectives and Agenda I CAN… • Exercise my relationship-building skills (Have you ever? -10 minutes). • Examine the elements of a good team (Whole group brainstorm-15 minutes). • Understand the tasks of high school teacher teams (Think-Pair -Share-10 minutes). • Identify meeting agenda topics within the common planning template (Chart paper/Gallery Walk-15 minutes). • Explore team roles (Frayer model-10 minutes).

Norms for Working Together • Take productive risks and struggle as necessary. • Respect everyone’s voice. • Manage floor time and sidebar conversations. • Focus on the student. • Use technology politely and appropriately. • Ensure your own happiness.

What makes an effective team? 5

Why does teaming matter? “The nature of relationships among the adults within a school has a greater influence on the character and quality of that school and on student accomplishment than anything else. ” Roland Barth Founder Principals’ Center Harvard

Choo-Choo Examine the Railroad Track Model of Group Development. • Have you been on a team that focused on one side? • If you were on a teacher team last year, what side did y’all emphasize? How do you know? • On which rail do you prefer to ride at work? • What activities/actions build relationships? • As a new team member or for new team members, how do we catch [them] up with both tasks and relationships? 7

The Tasks for an Academy Team Once a week for an hour during common planning, we make decisions about: • RESPONSIVE INTERVENTIONS • STANDARDS-BASED, INTERDISCIPLINARY INSTRUCTION • ACADEMY IDENTITY AND TEAMING What does that look like? Think-Pair-Share by table. Reviewing the Gap Analysis document.

Examining the Agenda Categories Number off 1 -10. Chart paper with categories around room. On the chart paper, write examples of meetings tasks, discussions, decisions that would fall in that category. Can you do each topic every meeting? Is the team leader responsible for all of it? Look at an agenda sample.

Team Roles Examine the sample team roles document without descriptions. What do you think each role entails? Frayer model (if time allows).

Objectives and Agenda I CAN… • Exercise my relationship-building skills (Have you ever? -10 minutes). • Examine the elements of a good team (Whole group brainstorm-15 minutes). • Understand the tasks of high school teacher teams (Think-Pair -Share-10 minutes). • Identify meeting agenda topics within the common planning template (Chart paper/Gallery Walk-15 minutes). • Explore team roles (Frayer model-10 minutes).

Need advice or help? Jacob Glancy Jacob. glancy@mnps. org La. Sheryl Jones-Hall La. Sheryl. Jones-Hall@mnps. org Or, your school’s Academy Coach! Trip Nicholson Trip. Nicholson@mnps. org Melissa Wrenne Mellisa. Wrenne@mnps. org