Unlocking Group Potential to Improve Schools
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Unlocking Group Potential to Improve Schools
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How great groups make great schools
This field book shows educators how to develop group culture, enhance facilitators€ skills, and optimize the group€s most precious resource€"its members. The authors describe how to form working committees, task forces, grade-level, and department teams, and faculties that are more effective and better equipped to resolve complex issues around student learning. Specific topics include:
- Understanding eight principles that underlie effective groups
- Learning the five standards for effective meetings
- Setting clear goals and roles
- Practicing new ways of talking for improved collaboration
- Examining perceptions and mental models
- Enhancing energy sources
- Working with conflict
- Developing basic facilitation skills
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