Building educator team culture
Highly effective educator teams don’t leave their team culture to chance. They know that trusting relationships are the foundation for the work they do together in support of students, and they build relationships with intentionality.
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Relationships come first
Learn how MLFC works with schools and other partners to 1) provide all students with deeper and personalized learning by building teams of educators with distributed expertise and 2) empower educators by developing new opportunities for role-based specialization and advancement.
Establishing communication and working styles norms
This activity offers team members an opportunity to reflect on and share what it takes for them to feel balanced, how they prefer to process information, what they need most from their team members and more. After reflecting and sharing, team members will work together to create norms for communication and working styles.
Establishing norms for managing conflict
Through this activity, educator team members reflect on their preferences for managing conflict and work together to agree on norms for healthy conflict as a team.
Gaining a deeper understanding of your team members
These two activities invite team members to gain a deeper understanding of one another, including backgrounds and context for teamwork.