1. Delete this text and type team members’ names
Children Champions
UNITED Protocol
Steps for Teaching Success
This is your title slide. Enter your team name and your team members. Be sure to delete extraneous text and directions. REMEMBER to rename and save your presentation.
Delete this text and type team members’ names

2. Unveil beliefs, vision, and mission
UNITED Protocol
Unveil beliefs, vision, and mission
Beliefs guide our work, our words, our actions…what are your individual beliefs about teaching and learning?
Name
Role
Individual Beliefs about Teaching and Learning
Caroline Judy
Head of School Asst Head of School
All children can learn.
Teachers bear a responsibility to find each child’s learning strengths and using those strengths to help him/her access new knowledge.
Good teaching is 98% relationship.
All children deserve and need a high quality educational experience.
Learning should be an active and engaging process that enables students to succeed and motivates/challenges them to reach new heights.
Teachers should be well versed in learning styles and delivery of instruction, as well as in ways to create an environment conducive to learning.
Enter your name and your grade level. Add your individual beliefs to the table. Customize the table to best represent your team by deleting or adding text, columns, etc.

3. Unveil beliefs, vision, and mission
UNITED Protocol
Unveil beliefs, vision, and mission
Your team’s shared beliefs are cornerstone of your collaboration as partners. These beliefs will guide your words and actions as a team and contribute to how you function as a cohesive unit.
~ Capture your team’s shared beliefs ~
The beliefs you have in common
WE BELIEVE…
1. All children can learn.
2. Decisions we make should be based on the question, “Is this good for the children?”
3. Teaching is an extraordinarily demanding profession.
4. The goal of teaching is to help each child reach his/her greatest potential. 5.
Discuss commonalities in your beliefs. Identify a minimum of 3 beliefs you share.

4. Unveil beliefs, vision, and mission
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Unveil beliefs, vision, and mission
A vision statement is about significant improvement, the difference you want to make, and where you want to end up as a teaching team.
OUR VISION
We want to…
Empower the faculty and staff at CES to embrace professional development as an avenue for their own professional growth and as a vehicle for raising the educational standards at CES, thereby improving the educational experience for all CES students.
Help create a CES that is known as a leader in instructional delivery with a focus on preparing our students for the demands of the 21st century.
Think about your shared beliefs and the teaching team you envision for yourselves. What is your partnership’s highest potential? What do you hope to achieve as a partnership? Consider these statements and enter your partnership’s vision on the slide:
Our vision is a teaching partnership that …
Our vision is a teaching partnership where …

5. Unveil beliefs, vision, and mission
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Unveil beliefs, vision, and mission
A mission puts your vision into practice.
What will you do to bring forth your vision ?
OUR MISSION
Work collaboratively with JHU/CTE and the CES faculty to learn about and implement best educational practices (as defined by quality research) necessary for preparing students for the 21st century.
Your mission is a concise statement of the action you will take to bring forth your vision. Discuss your mission as a partnership and enter on the slide.

6. Unveil beliefs, vision and mission
UNITED Protocol
Unveil beliefs, vision and mission
The vision and mission should link together since the mission explains how you will realize your vision.
OUR VISION and MISSION
Empower faculty and staff, raise the educational standards at CES, and develop a reputation for CES as a leader in preparing students for the demands of a rigorous secondary program and beyond.
Link your vision and mission into a fluid statement of how you will move your partnership forward in the direction of your vision. REMEMBER to save your presentation so far.

7. Name operating standards
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Name operating standards
A high performing teaching team is guided by core set of standards that promote positive interactions and efficiency. Operating standards foster a basic discipline for high performance teamwork.
BOUNDLESS LEARNING TEACHING: Operating Standards
Listen to understand.
Complete activities on time.
Participate and contribute to the team.
Respect each other.
Offer help willingly.
Be organized and prepared.
Help the other one find humor in stressful situations.
Extend unconditional and generous grace
Review the list of Operating Standard for the Boundless Learning Teaching Program. Discuss what these standards will look like and sound like for your partnership. How would an outside observer know these standards are in place in your team meetings and carried over to individual classrooms? Click on the text box and insert one or two additional standards that are important to your team.

8. LOOKS LIKE..SOUNDS LIKE..FEELS LIKE
UNITED Protocol
Identify six high performance teaming principles
LOOKS LIKE..SOUNDS LIKE..FEELS LIKE
POSITIVE INTERDEPENDENCE
“Sink or Swim Together”
Demonstration of an understanding that all members of the partnership are vital to reaching the team’s goals
Support of one another to maximize your individual and team potential
INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTABILITY
“No Free Riders”
Demonstration of an understanding that all team members share equal responsibility in all aspects of planning for classroom instruction.
PERFORMANCE MONITORING
“Check it out”
Assessment of the teaching team’s progress in reaching team goals and demonstration of teaming principles and operating standards
Shared decision making about areas of improvement and change
ENGAGEMENT & MOMENTUM
“Energize and Execute”
Active involvement of all team members in every aspect: planning, implementation, assessment
Frequent and purposeful interactions
Collaborative data analysis, problem-solving, and exchange of information and resources
Energy, involvement, interactions of the teaching team benefits students
COLLABORATIVE COMPETENCE
“All for One and One for All”
Competence and cooperation in planning, implementing, managing, and evaluating teaching
Positive conflict resolution
TECHNOLOGY OPTIMIZATION
“Power Up and Produce”
Use of technology to fulfill teaching responsibilities
Shared responsibility for integrating technology tools that improve student performance and learning
Review each high performance teaming principle and the “Looks Like…Sounds Like…Feels Like” description. Ensure that both you and your partner have a solid understanding of each principle. Consider how these principles will guide your collaborative partnership. Which principles do you demonstrate now? Which can you strengthen as a partnership? Which will have the greatest impact on your students?

9. SPECIFIC, MEASURABLE TARGETS
UNITED Protocol
Target goals
Goals direct planning and teaching activities and provide benchmarks for teachers to assess progress throughout the year.
Specific with clear outcomes of what you want to accomplish
Measurable indication of what you accomplished
Attainable through a series of action steps
Results-oriented toward targeted change
Time-bound with clear action steps across a manageable timeline
TIMELINE
SPECIFIC, MEASURABLE TARGETS
RESULTS
June 7, 2013
Weekly planning meetings
More proactive as opposed reactive communication and better support of faculty and staff.
Dec. 21, 2012
Read the faculty discussions in the ELC
Informed knowledge about the thoughts, goals and progress of the faculty
Complete the OLE’s along with the faculty
Faculty will see our commitment to this process
GOALS: (example)
By November 4, our collegial consultation partnership will meet bi-weekly to help support each other as we plan lessons for our grade level as evidenced by our weekly calendars and lesson plans.
Discuss two attainable goals for your partnership in the coming months. Use the goal template above to develop your goals. Type in your goals into the template. Discuss how you will monitor your progress on reaching these goals. How often will you review your progress?
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10. Establish team identity
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Establish team identity S
Share 3 – 5 interests, activities, work style, etc.
Caroline—cooking, restaurants, travel, art, museums,
Judy—art, golf, theater, travel, museums, restaurants, I
Identify commonalities & differences
We have more in common than we do differences. Our work ethic and commitment is the same. Because of our current jobs, Judy’s work is focused on day-to-day operations and Caroline’s work is focused on big picture and long-range sustainability. G
Generate team name that reflects your beliefs
The Children Champions N
Notify stakeholders (administrators, students, colleagues, parents ) of your team identity
Use this slide to establish your team identity. The SIGN Protocol provides a structure for completing this activity:
Share 3 – 5 things you enjoy, interests, activities, work styles, etc.
Identify commonalities and differences between your team members
Generate a team name that reflects your team’s beliefs, commonalities, and content expertise
Notify others of your identity by entering your team name on the UNITED Protocol
Use a variety of technology resources to create a representation of your team (photos, illustrations, logos, etc.). Make sure that your final slide includes: Team Name, Team Logo, Team Members, Vision/Mission, Goals for the first quarter, and any additional operating standards that are important to your team.
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11. Determine logistics for working together
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Determine logistics for working together
Logistics is about managing the flow of information, resources, and people’s needs in order to meet the goals of a group/team or organization. It is developing a support system that moves a program forward.
Come up with one creative way for meeting and supporting each other as we implement the LIFT initiative.
Logistics
*We will meet every Thursday morning at 10:30 in Caroline’s office.
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