Collaborative Response is a framework that values collaborative, action focused responses, data-informed discussions, and timely support to ensure all students can experience success while building the collective capacity of the team. Through the infusion of intentional structures and processes, Collaborative Response is simple in design but complex in execution, ensuring truly inclusive and collaborative learning environments are established and refined over time.
Professional Possibilities For Your School
- Facilitated workshops focused on topics including:
- Overview of Collaborative Response session - a great way to introduce Collaborative Response to your staff team
- Training support for facilitating effective collaborative team meetings
- Examination of data and development of team goals
- Development of a continuum of supports
- Individualized coaching and consultation support for school leadership
- Assistance in timetable development for embedded staff collaboration and student intervention
- Collaborative Team Meeting Feedback, with principals receiving feedback specifically on their collaborative team meeting processes
- Comprehensive School Collaborative Response Formative Feedback focused on receiving robust feedback on meeting structures, infusion of data and evidence and continuums of support
Interested in introducing Collaborative Response in your school? Access the Getting Started page on our website.
Darrin DeForge, principal of Joan Carr Elementary and Junior High School in Edmonton, Alberta shares his response to the sentence stem “As a result of Collaborative Response, we have seen…”.
School Implementation Stories
| How Collaborative Response Transformed a High School Principal, Carolyn Jensen, has implemented Collaborative Response in more than one school. Carolyn discusses shifting paradigms to focus on students’ needs to drive instructional practice as well as the ways in which Collaborative Response has “come to the rescue” in the current context of a large suburban high school. |
| Harnessing Collaboration So That the Results Speak for Themselves Principal, Joe Marion, and Family Outreach Worker, Rhonda Miron, of Dr. Brosseau School (Lakeland Catholic Schools) discuss creating space for robust and balanced conversations around academics and mental health, the impact of early assessment, implementation dips and peaks, the importance of onboarding, and how to shift from working for the continuum to have the continuum work for the educators. |
| Creating Community Through Collaborative Response Rob Champ, a Learning Leader at Ernest Manning High School (Calgary Board of Education) articulates how their high school staff of over seventy engage enthusiastically in Collaborative Response to meet the needs of their students. Through the highly structured Collaborative Team Meeting that is supported by the school’s Collaborative Response Committee, staff are able to engage with one another on a professional level in a safe environment. As a result, a community has been built on their commitment to trust, support, and learn from one another. |
| Creating Lasting Change: Collaborative Response as a Framework to Enhance Instruction and Learning Trevor Van Someren and Aaron Weimer, the administrative team of Clear Vista School in Westaskiwin Regional Public Schools discuss assessing student learning, intervening with learning sprints, the importance of engaging in Collaborative Response with integrity and fidelity, and planning to be disappointed (initially) because implementation is a learning process. |
| Learning by Doing: Collaborative Response at Buck Mountain Central School Principal, Nicole Townsend, and Assistant Principal, Mike York, discuss the impact of Collaborative Response for Buck Mountain Central School. Nicole and Mike share their experience of learning by doing, because it is urgent enough to start. |
| Data-Informed Priorities: Stefanie Brown Unpacks Florence MacDougall's Focus on Connectivity Principal of Florence MacDougall Community School, Stefanie Brown, shares the school's journey in identifying Connectivity as a priority area for Collaborative Response. She identifies data and evidence being used to inform this priority area and discusses supports being leveraged to empower students. |
