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Title: Building Our Team and Fostering Our PLC Focus at Discovery


1
Building Our Team and Fostering Our PLC Focus
at Discovery
  • Discovery Middle Schools
  • Professional Development Retreat
  • Joe Wheeler - August 15, 2012

2
Norms
  • Be open to ideas from others
  • Be an active participant
  • Avoid side conversations
  • Cell phones on vibrate
  • Be present (Avoid checking your e-mail/messages
    and working on other projects except for during
    lunch)
  • Take care of your creature comforts

3
Learning Target
  • To collaborate and work as a team to develop
    positive relationships
  • To begin the creation process and plan for the
    implementation of our One Page Instructional
    Improvement Target

4
Activity 1 Getting to Know One
AnotherCommonality, Uniqueness, Expectations
  • WHAT? CUECommonality, Uniqueness, Expectations
  • WHY? To develop connections across our team and
    PLC
  • HOW? Working in your table team, identify an
    interesting commonality that exists among you, a
    uniqueness of each member, and shared
    expectations for this school year

5
Activity 2 The Compass An Informal Leadership
Style Inventory
  • WHAT? North, South, East or West
  • WHY? To understand the leadership style of all
    members of our team
  • HOW? Individually read each of the four
    directions and decide which one best describes
    you. Then proceed to the section of the room
    labeled with that compass direction

6
Activity 3 The 17 Essentials Qualities of a
Team Player
  • WHAT? The 17 essential qualities of a team
    player
  • WHY? Becoming the kind of person every team
    wants
  • HOW? Read The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team
    Player. What do you think is the most important
    quality of being a team player and why? Prepare
    to share your thoughts in a moment when you get
    the Networking Ball.

7
Form a Band
  • One of each instrument means you have your band!

8
Activity 4 The Marshmallow Challenge
  • WHAT? The Marshmallow Challenge
  • WHY? Figuring out our teams nature of
    collaboration
  • HOW? Your band will use 20 spaghetti sticks, one
    yard of tape, one yard of string, and one
    marshmallow to build the tallest freestanding
    structure in 18 minutes. The marshmallow has to
    be on top of the structure.

9
The Marshmallow Challenge
http//marshmallowchallenge.com/TED_Talk.html
10
Lunch Time


11
One Page Instructional Improvement Target
Development
  • Reflect over last years target individually
  • We will read the except from Unmistakable Impact
    by Jim Knight The Target
  • Look at Columbia Elementary s One Page
    Instructional Improvement Target as an additional
    example
  • Community Building, Content Planning,
    Instruction, Assessment for Learning--What are
    our non negotiables for teachers and students at
    Discovery?
  • Our student team will be brought into review our
    suggestions and to add to our work
  • Voting will come later-everyone has to be in
    agreement before this process will end, even our
    student team!

12
Teams
  • There is a list of teams on the front of your
    afternoon packet
  • Find your four person team and sit together at
    the table that has your teams number in the
    middle of the yellow paper on the table
  • Each team should be at their own table
  • Teams 1-4 will rotate together while teams 5-8
    will rotate together during world café

13
World Café with Your Team
14
Engagement and Rigor
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?vhMOQHsWfOB4featur
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