1. Teacher Leader Academy Welcome! Entry Task: Find the Collaborative Groups Poster in the back of the room. Place sticky dots next to the group or groups that you facilitate or are a member of

2. Introductions

3. Collective Commitments

4. What is a teacher leader? And what do they do?

5. What do you notice about these lists?

6. Build skills Purpose of the Academy

7. Collaboration

8. Break

9. Characteristics of Collaborative Groups

10. Capturing our Thinking

11. Qualities of Collaborative Groups Collective focus on student learning and the work students do Belief that ALL participants bring expertise and unique experiences and perspectives A commitment to both personal learning and the learning of the group as a whole Shared focus determined by the group and significant to all

12. Collaborative Groups

13. Facilitation Why do teacher leaders need to develop facilitation skills?

14. What is a facilitator? Initial thoughts…

15. Facilitator Practice

16. Facilitator Responsibilities 1.The learning of the group 2.The logistics of the meeting 3.The longevity of the work within the school or district

17. Jigsaw

18. Training, presenting and facilitating

19. Visual Representation

20. Lunch! Back at 1:00

21. Facilitator Toolbox

22. Facilitator Moves I am GREAT at that  I should work on that ?What is this and why is it important?

23. Body Language

24. Difficult Group Members and Challenging Situations

25. Break

26. Your collaborative group has been assigned the task of choosing three “hallway behaviors” for which students will be held accountable

27. Debrief How did the non-productive participant create barriers? How did you feel (group member, facilitator, difficult group member)?

28. Reflecting on Facilitation

29. Citizen Facilitator

30. Reflect

31. Additional Resources nwesdteacherleadershipacademy.wikispaces.com

32. What’s Next Talking about learning: focusing on supporting effective instruction What would you like to explore (sticky note)

33. Evaluation and reflection

34. Contact information Jeanette Grishamjgrisham@nwesd.orgjgrisham@nwesd.org Beth Neimibneimi@nwesd.orgbneimi@nwesd.org Adrienne Someraasomera@nwesd.orgasomera@nwesd.org