Collaborative Team Meeting Cycle
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Collaborative team meetings are scheduled every 5-6 weeks to assess individual student needs and responses by the team. Teams utilize planning time to establish norms, set goals, and develop long-range plans and assessments, while maintaining notes and resources. The cycle emphasizes data-driven discussions to inform interventions, with a structured schedule established annually.
Collaborative Team Meeting Cycle
- 1. Collaborative Team Meeting Cycle Collaborative Team Meetings are intended to be scheduled every 5-6 weeks, with the purpose to examine individual student needs and appropriate responses by the collaborative team. In a grade-level team model, grade level teams use their embedded planning time in the other weeks to engage in the core work of a professional learning communities model. Below is an example of this cycle in practice. Week 1 Grade Level Planning Time • Teams establish norms, priorities, SMART goals at the start of the Week year (including who chairs and records each meeting) • Keeps brief notes at each meeting (template provided to team) 2 • Stores all grade level resources (including planning resources and Involves: meeting notes) on a grade level site (Google Docs, Dropbox, Grade level teachers Sharepoint, etc.) Administration (as Week Planning Time Focus Examples: requested) 3 • Developing common long range plans • Developing/refining curriculum maps • Developing common assessments • Examining instructional practices related to student learning Week 4 Grade Level Collaborative Team Meeting Involves: • Follows a formalized process, with notes and a list of responsibilities Grade level teachers recorded (and printed for each team member following the meeting) Week • Starts with celebrations then moves to student analysis and discussion Administration 5 • Utilizes visual scoreboard, with all students posted on the board Learning Support Staff All Support Staff • Utilizes data to inform the conversation working at that grade level As a result, interventions occur on a five-week cycle, being revisited at each collaborative team meeting • Collaborative Team Meeting schedule established at the start of each school year in the annual staff planning calendar. Copyright Jigsaw Learning 2012 CTM Cycle