1. Elephants in the Room: Confronting Barriers to Collaboration
Welcome and Overview – Cass
Logistics: facility, bathrooms, etc.
Purpose & Expectations
Process (modeling / adding tools)
Context of this Orientation in line of becoming an associate
Intros to the team (Janet, Jeff, Cass) as modeling to their intros
Check-in / Introductions – Janet
2 Truths and a Lie
Sign ‘non-compete’ forms?
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2. The Clash of Idea
Egalitarian
Meritocracy

3. Meritocracy
A system in which the talented are chosen and moved ahead on the basis of their achievement
Merriam-Webster Dictionary

4. Egalitarianism
1: a belief in human equality especially with respect to social, political, and economic affairs 2 : a social philosophy advocating the removal of inequalities among people Merriam-Webster Dictionary

5. Foundational Beliefs of An Egalitarian System
All Children Can Learn
All Children Will Learn Because of our Collective Beliefs and Behaviors

6. Reflection
How closely aligned are your school/districts belief systems with egalitarianism?
What are your major obstacles?

7. Two Forms of Change
Technical
Cultural

8. Common Misconceptions about Technical Changes
Changing the structure will lead to higher levels of productivity(“Rearranging the seats on the Titanic”)
Technical changes make up for human deficiencies like poor instruction or unprofessional behavior
Technical changes will “fix” kids or “fix” schools which are broken (Doing this “to” students as opposed to “with” students)

9. Apprenticeship of Observation
Educators have been socialized in their field since childhood and adopt the norms.
The average educator was a good student.
Educators subconsciously protect a system that was of personal benefit.
Educators implement practices that protect the system (academic obstacle course).
(Lortie, Schoolteacher: A Sociological Study,1975)
I assume that this information is a paraphrase from a book. Please let me know if this is so.
Also, we need the title of the work.

10. Systemic Collaboration

11. Healthy School Culture
“Educators have an unwavering belief in the ability of all of their students to achieve success, and they pass that belief on to others in overt and covert ways. Educators create policies and procedures and adopt practices that support their belief in the ability of every student.”
—Kent D. Peterson in Cromwell, 2002

12. School goals guide behavior.
Prescriptive
Prescription
Collaborative
Disciplined practice
Reflection
Analyze data
Confront brutal facts.
Commitment
Belief in all students
School goals guide behavior.

13. Frustration The Root of a Toxic Culture
Frustration: A feeling of anxiety resulting from the inability to perform a task
A mismatch between skill set and task
Causes people to deflect blame onto others and create covert alliances with people experiencing similar struggle

14. Toxic School Culture
“Educators believe that student success is based on students’ level of concern, attentiveness, prior knowledge, and willingness to comply with the demands of the school, and they articulate that belief in overt and covert ways. Educators create policies and procedures and adopt practices that support their belief in the impossibility of universal achievement.”
—Kent D. Peterson in Cromwell, 2002

15. Descriptive and Deflective

16. Recipe for Disaster
Inappropriate preparation
Poor support system
Task overload

17. The Culture of Complaint Two V’s
Venting
Validation

18. The Real Difference Descriptive Deflective Reflective Prescriptive
Toxic
Healthy
Descriptive
Deflective
Reflective
Prescriptive

19. Good to Great, Jim Collins
What do great corporations/organizations do differently than good/average organizations?
They seek and confront the “brutal facts”
They get the right people (everyone) on the “bus” and sit them in the “right seats”

20. The Quandary (Muhammad, 2009) Tweeners Believers Survivors
Fundamentalists
(Muhammad, 2009)

21. Adult Drama
Dysfunctional social interactions between adult professionals within a school environment that interfere with the proper implementation of important policies, practices, and procedures that support the proper education of students

22. Reflection
How do people in your organization typically respond when they become frustrated?
Does your organization have elements of “Adult Drama”?

23. Two Must-Reads for Follow-Up

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