The second is the critical nature of scheduling: ongoing,
collaborative time for teachers to talk about data and instruction is vital to the program's success.
For example, in higher - performing schools with better working conditions (e.g., more
collaborative time with colleagues and opportunities for engagement in teacher - led professional development), teachers were much more likely to assess students before and after teaching lessons, embed assessments within informal instruction, and offer more individualized instruction (Southeast Center for Teaching Quality, n.d.).
Developed in close collaboration with Atlas, this beautiful volume captures the movement and pace of the artist's celebrated and
highly collaborative time - based art.
The online Data Wise Leadership Institute, on the other hand, ensures that teams dedicate the
intensive collaborative time that Data Wise's cultural shift requires; Boudett describes it as a retreat in a box with live virtual support.
At the Independent Schools Foundation Academy in Hong Kong, teachers get
collaborative time built into their timetables every two weeks.
Teacher teams, PLCs, and departments
need collaborative time to analyze the results of short - term growth assessments to look for patterns and trends and make informed decisions on next steps for instruction.
«The
increased collaborative time has helped build cohesion with our grade 9 team, and the I - Times have helped us build community within our grade level team,» he reported.
The school schedule provides for one hour per week of
collaborative time during the school day, but you and the members of your team do not believe it is enough time to be productive.
The emphasis on improving test scores has overwhelmed every aspect of teachers» work, forcing them to spend
precious collaborative time poring over student data rather than having conversations about students and instruction.
These insights come from Meeting Wise: Making the Most of
Collaborative Time for Educators, a handy book by Kathryn Parker Boudett and Elizabeth City that's full of tips and strategies for making better meetings.
The top four suggestions for tasks that teachers wanted to spend more time on, in order improve teaching and learning, were: lesson planning, sourcing / creating resources, one - to - one feedback for pupils,
collaborative time with colleagues.
Developed in close collaboration with Atlas, this beautiful volume looks back at a career that has spanned four decades and covers over 75 projects, including works recently exhibited at Tate Modern and the 2012 Whitney Biennial, capturing the movement and pace of the artist's celebrated and
highly collaborative time - based art.
Meeting Wise: Making the Most
of Collaborative Time for Educators examines improving meetings as a high - leverage strategy for changing how people work together and offers tips for setting up, facilitating, and participating effectively in meetings.
Teachers may need time to work together to plan lessons or create content — give
them collaborative time if you have that ability.
Boudett and City's Meeting Wise: Making the Most of
Collaborative Time for Educators (2014), the latest publication to emerge from the project, recognizes the importance of meetings as the place where much of the real work of school improvements happens.
To find out more about what makes school - based meetings work well — and why they often don't — Education Week talked to Kathryn Parker Boudett, a lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the co-author, with Elizabeth A. City, of Meeting Wise: Making the Most of
Collaborative Time for Educators...
Teachers in Windsor 7, whose weekly schedule is shown below, break out
their collaborative time into three 80 - minute blocks.
Boudett is co-editor of Data Wise: A Step - By - Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning (2013); Data Wise in Action: Stories of Schools Using Data to Improve Teaching and Learning (2007); Key Elements of Observing Practice: A Data Wise Facilitator's Guide and DVD (2010), and Meeting Wise: Making the Most of
Collaborative Time for Educators (2014)(all published by Harvard Education Press).
In late August, Harvard Graduate School of Education's EdCast host, Matt Weber, sat down with faculty Kathy Boudett and Liz City to discuss their new book, Meeting Wise: Making the Most of
Collaborative Time for Educators.
The title of the book indicates that Meeting Wise is geared toward making the most of
collaborative time for educators.
Most importantly, when something went wrong at the school or needed to be done,
the collaborative time was built in to handle it.
Every person I interviewed thought that all
these collaborative times, when added up, were essential to teaching students and not just subjects.
Perhaps most importantly, every student I interviewed thought
the collaborative time was essential, too.
We all recognize how much is gained when we are allowed to really talk about our curriculum and our students, and this model allows for that creative,
collaborative time to work through complex and interesting questions and ideas about integrating technology effectively.
Solutions to the common pitfalls that can sink a meeting — so educators can make the most of
their collaborative time.
In Meeting Wise: Making the Most of
Collaborative Time for Educators, forthcoming from Harvard Education Press, Kathryn Parker Boudett and Elizabeth A. City write that meetings provide rare opportunities for educators to promote learning — not just for students but also for themselves.
She also makes sure students receive plenty of experience employing the ideas of one of the core texts for the course, Meeting Wise: Making the Most of
Collaborative Time for Educators.
As noted in Meeting Wise: Making the Most of
Collaborative Time for Educators, it's appropriate for educators in meetings «to feel challenged by the exchange of ideas and the weight of the objectives, but not to feel confused by a lack of clarity about purpose, process, or next steps.
Here's where the Data Wise Improvement Process helps teams use
their collaborative time well.
Meeting Wise: Making the most of
collaborative time for educators.
What matters is having that kind of leadership and support for teachers, having special educators work with regular educators, having
collaborative time to talk about kids and work with kids.
The Massachusetts Digital Publication Collaborative was designed to provide educators with
collaborative time to build digital curriculum content.
Dr. Kathryn Boudett, co-author of the book «Meeting Wise: Making the Most of
Collaborative Time for Educators»
Weaken overall funding so much that schools will find it far harder to provide teachers with the blocks of
collaborative time they need to plan innovations, check results, and revise plans to make results stronger in the next round of instruction.
This teacher
collaborative time is being spent getting work done, tasks completed.
Developed in close collaboration with the artist, this vivid book captures the movement and pace of Charles Atlas's celebrated and highly
collaborative time - based art.