Objectives and Standards

Faculty Growth Cohort: Objective: To provide teachers with a safe and supportive environment to
review teaching best practices, to review previously taught lessons, and to
The Benefits of Collaboration offer feedback when requested.

Teacher Leader Standards:

Proposition 4: Teachers think systematically about their practices and learn

from experience.

Lisa Schneide
March 15, 2023 Domain 4: Serves as a team leader to harness the skills, expertise, and
knowledge of colleagues to address curricular expectations and student
learning needs.
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How can a faculty cohort model be

used to build community, deepen faculty Have any of you ever heard of the term
engagement, and promote a sense of collaborative inquiry
belonging

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 What is Collaborative Inquiry? Roles and Responsibilitie

Roles Specific Responsibilities

Faculty Member engaged participant, reflective set a goal and work toward it; choose a protocol
Highlights of the Collaborative Inquiry (CI) model upon which our system is based: practitioner, lifelong learner (with help of facilitator), present lesson or unit to
group, apply feedback; be committed to providing
● Collaborative Inquiry with options for protocols to suit the needs of various adult learners meaningful feedback for other participants; actively
● Cohort Model: all faculty during a CI year, participants form small groups within the cohort, meeting participate in all meetings
together during the scheduled meeting days and possible self-selected days
● A reflective process, looking for evidence of practice, share results of yearlong process with communit
● Cohort Facilitators facilitator of small group protocol facilitate small group using protocol selected by
Scheduled Time: meeting times are determined to avoid scheduling conflicts
meetings, supportive resource, model sharing faculty; record strategies and ideas for
sharing faculty; actively participate in meetings

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According to the National School Reform Faculty organization…


Collaborative Inquiry Group or Faculty Growth Cohort process

● A cohort of 4-7 members who commit to improving their practice through structured interactions (protocols) in a
non-evaluative setting.
Have any of you ever heard of or used
● During each Collaborative Inquiry meeting, all members are active participants.
● At designated times, each faculty member shares their focusing question or area in which he/she would
especially welcome feedback.
a tuning protocol
● The presenter might want feedback on assessing a student’s work, a dilemma, a rubric, lesson or project
planning, an idea that needs to be built, etc.
● One member acts as the facilitator, and guides the group through the appropriate protocol. The specific protocol
will depend on the faculty member needs

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 What is a Tuning Protocol? Tuning Protocol Process

For the presenter who wants to fine tune his/her practice:
This protocol is similar to the one that Eric Hudson used for our Collaborative Calibration activity.

The Tuning Protocol (*Times are approximate and can be adjusted as needed)
● It is a flexible critique tool used to gather focused feedback to 1. Introduction & Presentation................................................5 min.
The presenter has an opportunity to share the context for the student work and share their focusing question.
aid in planning.
 2. Clarifying Questions............................................................2 min.
Participants have an opportunity to ask “clarifying” questions in order to understand the context for the student
work.
3. Examination of Student Work Samples or artifacts..............5 min.
● We will use the following the Tuning Protocol and the Issaquah Participants look closely at the artifact, focusing particularly on the presenter’s focusing question.
Protocol during our Faculty Growth Cohort meetings. 4. Pause to reflect on feedback...............................................1 min.
Participants take a couple of minutes to reflect on what they would like to contribute to the feedback session.
5. Feedback.............................................................................3 min.
Participants share feedback with each other while the presenter is silent.
6. Reflection/Debrief...............................................................5 min.
Presenter speaks to those comments/questions he or she chooses while participants are silent.

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Issaquah Protocol Process

For the presenter who wants to grapple with a dilemma and get tangible solutions:
The Issaquah Protocol (*Times are approximate and can be adjusted as needed)

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2.
Introduction & Presentation................................................3 min.
The presenter has an opportunity to share a dilemma without a known answer.
Clarifying Questions............................................................2 min.
I want you to think about which protocol
Participants have an opportunity to ask “clarifying” questions in order to understand the context of the dilemma.
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4.
Interpretive Listening by the Group....................................4 min.
Participants interpret the dilemma. “What this means to me is…”
Presenter Check-in .............................................................1 min.
would be most useful for your teaching
Presenter confirms or clarifies the participants’ interpretations.
5. Probing Questions by the Group..........................................2 min.
Give the group 2 minutes to come up with a probing question. (Participants name paradoxes or controversies
without asking or implying that there is a solution.)
practice
6. Presenter Response............................................................2 min.
Which probing question made the presenter think the hardest and why?
7. Suggestions by the Group...................................................5 min.
“What if she…” “One thing I might consider/try/do”
8. Presenter Reflects Back......................................................4 min.
What the presenter is now thinking of doing; Concrete steps that can be taken, even if they are
first steps.

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 Timed Pair Share

Turn and talk with you partner.

● Share which protocol would be most useful to you. 


● Share one potential tuning protocol idea with your partner.

Does anyone have any questions

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Let’s Practice!


 What did you think of the Process
Thank you Carly for Volunteering.

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