Learning Forward
Equity and excellence in teaching and learning.
Tools
Use this tool to offer an opportunity for your educators to pause and reflect about their accomplishments in the first several months of school, or to create a new beginning for the remainder of the year.
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Use this tool to develop a set of operating norms, or ground rules, that encourage behaviors that will help a group do its work and discourage behaviors that interfere with a group’s effectiveness.
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Use this tool to help you and other leaders understand the roles and typical responsibilities of facilitators. You might use these suggestions to create a job description and responsibilities, to help leaders understand needed facilitation tasks, or to provide information when requesting funding for a professional learning team facilitator.
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Good facilitation begins with good organization. Set up a method to collect and organize information before the team start-up.
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Facilitators guiding groups through difficult discussions need a range of protocols to support making such conversations productive. The polarity map is a tool for mapping paradoxes or dilemmas, providing structure for making invisible tensions visible, and providing a focus for the group to engage in dialogue from diverse perspectives.
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