If Collaborative Response is the vehicle for providing a schoolwide response for individual student needs, the collaborative team meeting is the engine that drives it.
When introducing the collaborative team meeting to a staff team, it is important for leaders to be intentional and focus on growing understanding of how it functions, to place focus on classroom instructional practices and responsive supports.
In this workshop, you will learn:
4 mistakes leaders commonly make when introducing the collaborative team meeting
How to address those mistakes, with a large number of ideas, templates and samples provided
It is important to understand that the collaborative team meeting may look like we’re talking about students, but students are only being utilized as a mechanism to leverage a conversation about classroom instruction. How this meeting is introduced and initially structured matters!
In this workshop, Kurtis Hewson explores four mistakes we see leaders make when planning for their first collaborative team meetings, whether the critical structure is new to the school or being reintroduced for another year.
For only $25, you will receive:
FREE RESOURCES
Access a number of free resources, samples and templates
REPLAY ACCESS
Return to the recording to rewatch any portion or all of the recorded workshop
DISCOUNT CODES
Receive discount codes for additional resources following the session
Join Kurtis in this Supporting Collaborative Response on-demand workshop to learn more about…
- How the collaborative team meeting fits within the four layers of team needing to be established in every school.
- What is the purpose of the collaborative team meeting and how to communicate that effectively with the staff team.
- Strategies to help staff come to the meeting prepared and focused.
- The importance of meeting roles for creating shared ownership and distributed leadership.
- The development of an agenda to provide focus and high levels of productivity for the meeting.
Access the 4 Mistakes Leaders Make When Setting Up Collaborative Team Meetings handout to record key ideas shared in this online workshop
Meet the Presenter
Kurtis Hewson has been an award-winning teacher, vice-principal, and principal, as well as taught at the post-secondary level. With over a decade of experience as an administrator, Kurtis has championed the call for collaborative structures in schools to ensure success for all students. In addition to two finalist awards from Alberta Excellence in Teaching program and an Edwin Parr award recipient for excellence in his first year of teaching, Kurtis was an honouree for the ASCD Outstanding Young Educator Award in 2010. Kurtis is one of five Alberta principals featured in Reflecting on Leadership for Learning: Case Studies of Five Alberta Elementary School Principals, addressing exemplary leadership practices in elementary schools in Alberta. He is the co-founder of Jigsaw Learning, a co-author of the text Collaborative Response: Three Foundational Components That Transform How We Respond to the Needs of Learners (Corwin, 2022), and currently works with districts and schools nationally and internationally establishing Collaborative Response frameworks and interacting with thousands of educators annually.
Interested in learning more?
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