Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Working Together


“Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.” 
 Mike SchmokerResults

As we kick off our work through the Strengthening Teacher and Leader Effectiveness grant, the conversations are already exciting!  During our first meeting of building principals and PSPs, we realized that through the observation process, the administrators are seeing lots of great things, to boost student achievement, going on in classrooms throughout the building.
So the question arose.. how do we best share these practices and ideas?  Some are instructional strategies, while others are organizational in nature.

This is the result.

We decided to start a blog and write about what is going on in many of your rooms, as a collection of resources for you to access, peruse, share, adapt, and reuse as you see fit.  You are welcome to comment on any post and share any ideas you think will be helpful as well.

We need each other, and together we will be better as Aristotle pointed out, "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."