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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And if you can't tell your boss what you think might be an improvement on a meeting or whatever issue comes up, I don't see the point of meeting on collaboration or teaching children how to collaborate. Collaboration has to be more than just lateral collaboration in order to be effective on solving problems.[/quote]

That's the problem--it's nothing that's actually meaningful. It's in name only so it can be documented that it has been done and boxes can be checked. That's why it's a complete waste of time. If you want it to be meaningful, let it be teacher led. Ensure that the ESOL and Special Ed. teachers have planning time in their schedules at the same time as the classroom teachers of the kids they service so they can discuss shared students and co-plan effective lessons. That is meaningful collaboration. Completing a mandated template form in a fishbowl environment with the staff development teacher, reading specialist, math content coach and assistant principal staring at you is not meaningful collaboration. But the box is checked so that's all that matters, right? -OP[/quote]

You don't have to tell me that or anyone here. You have to tell your principal that and the other teachers and get them to agree. Did you watch the video? It has to come through initiative and suggestion, not complaint.

I also think you are wrong that outside ideas can't be meaningful. They just can't be meaningful without refinement and buy in or dismissal. They are a "basal resource" to use a school term. They are a template to start from. The refinement and buy in or dismissal has to come from the people who work there.[/quote]

That's not the way it works. These are initiatives mandated by central office, not just the principal or other local school admin. The principal doesn't really have a say in this unless they are at a very high SES school where test scores are high no matter what. They are just required to provide evidence that these central office mandates are occurring in their schools, and the only way a principal will stand up to central office is if their scores are high year in and year out due to a high SES population of students. [/quote]

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