Component A: Establishes and Maintains a Clear Focus
Professional Learning Resources
These resources are available for you to use and adapt to help with implementing Component A with your team. If you have other great resources to share, please SUBMIT it to Margie Johnson by emailing her at margie.johnson@mnps.org.
| Resources | Description—Click on Resource Name to Access It |
| Academic Team Notebook | Academic team notebooks provide a systematic, focused way for a team to record their meeting minutes and monitor their progress |
| Belbin’s Team Roles | Blog post about understanding team roles, which helps improve team performance |
| Collaborative Inquiry Meeting Template | A meeting template developed by Noelle Taylor, an MNPS Educator, using information learned from the book, Got data? Now what? |
| Collaborative Inquiry Shifting Mindset Planning Sheet | Dr. Craig Hammond developed this planning worksheet aligned to Dr. Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman's book, Got Data? Now What? to facilitate mindset conversations with his staff at West End. He shared it at the 2015 Learning Forward conference. |
| Creating a Team Mission Statement | A process for facilitating the creation of a team mission statement |
| Creating Professional Working Norms | An exercise to facilitate the understanding and creation of professional working norms for a team |
| Data-Driven Meetings | A document that adapted information from Data Driven Meetings: We Can Do It in 40 Minutes |
| Defining Team Purpose | An activity for helping a team define collective beliefs about the purpose of their work and the role in educating students |
| Driven By Data: Results Meeting Protocol | This resource from Paul Bambrick-Santoyo’s Driven By Data: A Practical Guide to Improve Instruction provides an agenda for teacher teams when looking at interim assessment data and consensus and calendar guidelines. |
| Final Word Protocol | A protocol for activating knowledge about a particular topic, which also ensures everyone has active participation in the process |
| Got Data? Now What? Group Work Structures | Got Data? Now What? Reproducible about group work structures, which helps to plan purposeful interactions |
| Got Data? Now What? Intervention Planning Template | Got Data? Now What? Reproducible about intervention planning template |
| Got Data? Now What? Reflect on Your Experiences | Got Data? Now What? Reproducible about reflecting upon your group experience |
| Got Data? Now What? Scaled Group Inventory | Got Data? Now What? Reproducible about the scaled group inventory |
| Got Data? Now What? Self Assessment Inventory | Got Data? Now What? Reproducible entitled Self Assessment Inventory to help reflect upon your group participation |
| Keeping Meeting Records | An information page about keeping meeting records for the team to consider |
| Live in Greatness Core Protocols | A set of protocols that can be used by a team to maximize team meeting time and effectiveness |
| Making Meaning Protocol | A protocol for helping a team process text from a variety of perspectives and determining how it affects their work |
| MNPS Team Common Planning Template | A protocol for helping a team process text from a variety of perspectives and determining how it affects their work |
| MNPS Instructional Unit Planning Template | A template that can be used for instructional unit planning |
| Protocol for Reflective Dialogue Around Change | A protocol to foster dialogue around the emotional impact of change on an individual or organization through the use of a structured reflective protocol |
| SMART Goals Worksheet | A worksheet for creating SMART Goals |
| Teaching for Understanding Planning Cycle | A planning cycle to facilitate the development of an instructional unit |
| Team Planning Action Plan Template | An action plan template for establishing team meetings |
| Unit Implementation Rubric | Rubric to be used to self-assess the implementation of the planned unit meetings |
| What Do We Collectively Believe and Value | A template to be used for helping a team identify collective beliefs and values |
