An overview of the Collaborative Team Meeting Cycle, illustrating the work of grade-level teams on the weeks between regularly scheduled Collaborative Team Meetings. More resources, templates and related blog postings at www.jigsawlearningca.wordpress.com

1. Collaborative Team Meeting Cycle
Collaborative Team Meetings are intended to be scheduled every 5-6 weeks, with the purpose
to examine individual student needs and appropriate responses by the collaborative team. In
a grade-level team model, grade level teams use their embedded planning time in the other
weeks to engage in the core work of a professional learning communities model. Below is an
example of this cycle in practice.
Week
1 Grade Level Planning Time
• Teams establish norms, priorities, SMART goals at the start of the
Week year (including who chairs and records each meeting)
• Keeps brief notes at each meeting (template provided to team)
2 • Stores all grade level resources (including planning resources and Involves:
meeting notes) on a grade level site (Google Docs, Dropbox, Grade level teachers
Sharepoint, etc.)
Administration (as
Week Planning Time Focus Examples: requested)
3 • Developing common long range plans
• Developing/refining curriculum maps
• Developing common assessments
• Examining instructional practices related to student learning
Week
4
Grade Level Collaborative Team Meeting
Involves:
• Follows a formalized process, with notes and a list of responsibilities
Grade level teachers
recorded (and printed for each team member following the meeting)
Week • Starts with celebrations then moves to student analysis and
discussion
Administration
5 • Utilizes visual scoreboard, with all students posted on the board
Learning Support Staff
All Support Staff
• Utilizes data to inform the conversation
working at that grade
level
As a result, interventions occur on a five-week cycle, being revisited at
each collaborative team meeting
• Collaborative Team Meeting schedule established at the start of each school year in the
annual staff planning calendar.
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