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School leaders engaging in purposefully establishing highly impactful collaborative structures and processes should consider purposefully designing a space for that purpose.

Celebrations not only start team meetings on a positive note. They can help to identify the specific actions we have taken that have led to that success, building high levels of collective efficacy for every team.

When we think about the importance of determining roles in our collaborative team meetings, we will once again reinforce the idea that roles can be impactful in all types of meetings, not only in collaborative team meetings. They can help support the other…

The pre-meeting organizer helps reinforce that when we ask the question of who would you like to talk about, the person knows who as they have already put thought into their students, looked at their data and have identified a key issue aligned with the…

A key consideration for collaborative team meetings is the development of an intentional and integrated agenda and notes document. This provides predictability for your teams, and it guides the process of moving from one item to the next in your agenda, as…

The establishment of team norms, not only for collaborative team meetings, but all layers of team, is critically important.

A key consideration for collaborative team meetings is involving a number of people who come to that team with varying perspectives. Accessing as many different voices around the table allows for diversity of thought and breadth of ideas.

When establishing collaborative team meetings, it's important that we start with a focus. Without an aligned focus for the conversation, we often default to discussing behaviors which often can lead to things that are outside of our locus of control.

The design of the Collaborative Team Meeting is highly intentional and focuses on maximizing the time a team is together to have the greatest overall impact on classroom practice to support as many students as possible. Key to this structure is the…

It takes a team! Ensuring diversity of thought at the table is a critical element for impactful Collaborative Team Meetings.