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On April 6,2016, the social studies department engaged in guided dialogue to determine team
working agreements/norms to advance transparent communication, respect, trust, efficiency,
and streamline their focus on supporting student learning.

The following are the norms to which each team member has committed:

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React with transparency, honesty and full disclosure to other team member's statements,
decisions or actions.
Come to meetings fully prepared and organized (bring documents, student work, data,
completed team tasks, read emails or assigned reading in advance)
Pay attention to your body language, facial expressions, tone of voice and word choice
Check your phrasing to avoid blanket statements that make assumptions and
generalizations
Consider alternate perspectives, keep your mind open to others'ideas
Take individual and shared responsibility for following through on team tasks, actions and
other team business
Collaboratively share results-proven instructional practices to support student learning goals

The following decisions were also made:

lf a norm is broken, the team will talk to the team member about it at the meeting with respect,
and with the purpose of encouraging the team member.
Each team member understands that if they are the person breaking the agreement, they will
expect the team to address it, and will be willing to improve without being defensive.

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Reflect on pull out

Cye.ote putl oitt doy minutes by revisiting ogenda
Share best practices for improving claim score

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Select a date complete second round

Team Norms:
Come to the meetings prepored to discuss and on time. Pleose bring your boseline doto
Roles:

Facilitator - Nathan Recorder Active Pa rticipa nt - Everyone

Time Keeper

Topic

Process

Checking in

Agenda, norms/agreements, review of the pull out day

Argument writing rubric

Thoughts and reflections from the information shared at the pull out

day.
Revisit gur new department values statement.
Create our own meeting minutes through reflection.

Everyone share their baseline score for claims

- Scoring the first round on the rubric.
- Explore ways to improve the score. Like sharing best practices.
- Second round prompt.

Time
20min

25 min