Meeting+Notes

Friday January 28th:

Treasure Hunt: Sharing

1) Data Driven Dialogue / Facilitators Guide to Collaborative Inquiry - Wellman / Lipton - Still very relevant / evolving to a broad collaborative Inquiry mindset - Practical / strategy based guide - User friendly and great for all aspects of our work - Very inclusive / collaborative

2) The Reflective Educator's Guide to Professional Development / Classroom Research - Nancy Fichtman Dana/ Diane Yendol-Hoppey

3) It's all about Thinking / Collaborating to support all learners - Faye Brownlie - Already being used in our district. Connections to literacy - Integrated / relevant to the classroom / current / UDL

4) The Mindful Teacher - Dennis Shirley - Familiarity and accessibility of approach - helps with the shift in mindset to a different way of engaging teachers in dialogue

5) Narrative Thereapy (focused and intensive application)

6) Collaborative Analysis of Student Work...

Note: As we synthesize the body of work that is out there, we need to define and put "collaborative inquiry" into context.

Guiding Qestions:

1) How do we link or imbed collaborative inquiry appraches and tools to support the implementation of the five priority practices of the school district?

2) What Structures, resources and actions could we use / do to facilitate the implementation

3) How do we want to organize our focus team to "do the work"?

4) Are there training components to be considered? If so, what could this look like? Design of space on UC, Video