Unlocking Group Potential to Improve Schools

Unlocking Group Potential to Improve Schools

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<p><strong><em>How great groups make great schools</em></strong></p> <p>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:</p> <ul> <li>Understanding eight principles that underlie effective groups</li> <li>Learning the five standards for effective meetings</li> <li>Setting clear goals and roles</li> <li>Practicing new ways of talking for improved collaboration</li> <li>Examining perceptions and mental models</li> <li>Enhancing energy sources</li> <li>Working with conflict</li> <li>Developing basic facilitation skills</li> </ul>