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Jigsaw Learning has completely transformed how our team operates.

Discover how one school’s journey of starting small with Collaborative Response led to powerful shifts in culture, trust, shared leadership, and staff well-being, creating stronger outcomes for both educators and students.

Kurtis and Lorna reflect on the value of visualizing data for your school team to create focus, urgency and celebration, ensuring that data is being utilized to track and celebrate progress. Creating visual scoreboards for your data can make a substantial…

Discover how intentional structures, collaborative processes, and student-centered design can transform adult collaboration in schools in this conversation with David K Richards, Founder & CEO of Changemaker Microschools.

Kurtis and Lorna discuss the why you should be creating opportunities for the facilitator role in meetings to change and the impact it can have on your overall culture of collaboration.

Kurtis and Lorna speak with Karen Dudek-Brannan about building high-impact collaborative school cultures that unite educators and service providers to better support diverse student needs.

Kurtis and Lorna share what they've learned about the importance of celebrations for ALL meetings (and especially the collaborative team meetings) and four ideas for celebrations that you may not have considered that will make them even more effective!

Download the free Start Your Year Strong Resource Guide to help school leaders create a collaborative, culture-centered roadmap for a focused and successful 2026–2027 school year.

Kurtis and Lorna reflect upon the need to establish an annual calendar in your school, reflecting key assessment dates, team meetings, PD days and more, to ensure intentionality, alignment and predictability for your collaborative efforts.