Category: PreK

Collaboration Spotlight: Pre-K Family Involvement Specialists

11/17/2017

On October 30th, the Pre-K Family Involvement Specialists had a retreat. Marianna Merritt invited me to facilitate a session where the collaborative inquiry process was used to inform how family engagement can support student success.

The session began with an Activating and Engaging activity called Looking Back...Looking Ahead (Lipton & Wellman, 2011) where participants shared how family involvement in schools has changed from the past to now and then their vision for future family involvement.

For the Exploring and Discovering part of the collaborative inquiry process, a jigsaw strategy was used to have the family involvement specialists read their assigned pages of Parents 2017: Unleashing Their Power and Potential (Learning Heros, 2017) to identify 3 A's plus one (Lipton and Wellman, 2011). This protocol has them identify one ting with which you agree, argue, and aspire. Then, the plus one is an insight gleaned from the sharing.

We Organized and Integrated the observations using the Traffic Light protocol (Lipton & Wellman, 2011) to discuss actions to stop, continue, and start.

Wonderful engagement and ideas were generated from this session.

Check out the meeting minutes to see their reflections and meeting feedback.

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References:
Learning Hero. (2017, August). Parents 2017: Unleashing their power & potential. New York, NY: Learning Heroes.

Lipton, L. & Wellman, B. (2011). Groups at work: Strategies and structures for professional learning. Charlotte, VT: MiraVia, LLC.

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Collaboration Spotlight: MNPS Pre-K Department

9/22/2017

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On September 14, 2017, the MNPS Pre-K Leadership team held a retreat. A component of that retreat was to use the collaborative inquiry process to analyze multiple sources of data and develop SMART goals for the year.

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The session began by engaging them in a conversation about Pre-K in the past, now, and future. The strategy was called Looking Back and Looking Ahead (Lipton & Wellman, 2011).

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After a quick calibrating activity about making data observations NOT inferences and/or explanations, the team recorded data observations from multiple sources of data.

After a brief discussion about SMART goals, draft goals were generated during this session. We are still working to finalize their goals for their deadline of October 6th.

I was honored to work with such a talented group of professionals. Keep up the wonderful work!!

If you would like assistance with facilitating your team using the collaborative inquiry process, please feel free to contact Margie Johnson at [email protected].

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Collaboration Spotlight: Pre-K Family Involvement Specialists

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