Margaret Allen Middle--January 9, 2018
Using Collaborative Inquiry to Empower
Culture and Climate Change

Activating and Engaging--Visual Synectic

The meeting began by asking them to brainstorm how culture is like a football game.

Organizing and Integrating--Traffic Light Protocol

Groups discussed recommendations that they want to stop, continue, and start for Spring 2018.
Margaret Allen Middle used the collaborative inquiry process to analyze multiple sources of culture and climate data for informing culture and climate changes for Spring 2018.
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Exploring and Discovering--Data Dive

Multiple sources of data from the Panorama survey were used to have teachers make observations......
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Reflection---What might be some actions I take as a result of our conversations today?

  • Regularly checking in with my students in terms of how they are feeling…what they need, etc
  • Continue thinking about the engagement piece of learning—getting at the voice of my particular students
  • I need to find ways to relate my content to my students’ lives during my lessons to raise student engagement
  • Make a concerted effort to enforce positive attitude with students
  • Identify ways to make students feel more engaged during lessons and excited about class
  • Talking more with students about, “How I can make students more engaged?”
  • Talking with students to understand how to keep them safe
  • This is a beginning.  We need to build a much deeper community that involves listening
  • Being more engaging in classroom
  • Continue focusing on student strengths while supportively holding them accountable
  • Be a positive role model promoting and encouraging students
  • I feel like this was a great idea because students should have a voice
  • Need this information much closer to the time when the survey was taken
  • Be more intentional about connecting students outside class time.
  • Smile to all people
  • Continue using “feedforward” to make daily decisions
  • Move as a grade level team to create more engaging and trusting environments
  • Find a way to make kids feel safe here
  • Contributions
  • I think the social interactions between kids are the most important aspect of school culture, including learning
  • Find more ways to make learning fun and engaging
  • Increate opportunities to develop relationships (individual and group)
  • Find MNPS material defining bullying to add to my current unit
  • Embed more SEL activities
  • Self-reflect daily
  • Talk with teammates to find ways to improve student SEL
  • Create more trust with students and truly invest in their safety, community, and out of school activities

How was the meeting?

Plus

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  • Eye opening about students’ point of view
  • Pacing—(2)
  • Clear data
  • Provided data to understand
  • Informative information
  • Transformative community schools
  • Informative to see where they stand
  • Doing great
  • It was good.  Enjoyed seeing the surveys and knowing how student and staff see things to know how to problem solve
  • From what I gather, this was a well ran meeting and very informative
  • Good information
  • Good to be informed about data
  • Small group conversations
  • To the point
  • Collaborative
  • Looked at data with team (made observations, analysis)
  • Interesting
  • Reflective
  • Positive in sharing data
  • Overall positive
  • Split time between data and action planning
  • Very organized
  • Good opportunity to discuss data
  • A lot of time looking at data
  • I liked the partner chat to look at data
  • Move forward with this data to make improvements
  • Turning over the floor to someone you talked over a few
  • Changing categories
  • Not just data talks, but some solutions or resources for these problems.
  • Data not accurate at 26/28 responses but only 15 recorded on several data sheets
  • Have time to plan as a staff some concrete initiatives
  • Too much data
  • Straight to data in and out
  • Start surveying parents
  • More small group
  • Rotating talking to other groups