• Why Every Meeting Needs to Start With Celebrations
    Sep 16 2023

    In episode 25 of The Why Behind Collaborative Response series, Kurtis Hewson shares why every meeting should be starting with celebrations. Celebrations not only focus on promoting a positive mindset when engaging in conversation, but when we ask “what did we do that led to that celebration”, it promotes high levels of collective efficacy as well as sharing potential ideas and strategies that could benefit everyone in attendance. Celebrations matter when establishing and sustaining your organization’s Collaborative Response

    Learn more about why you should never skip celebrations when starting meetings in this blog posting - https://www.jigsawlearning.ca/publications/blog-posts/dont-skip-celebrations-when-beginning-any-team-meeting


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  • Why Meeting Roles are Critical for Team Success
    Aug 12 2023

    In episode 24 of The Why Behind Collaborative Response series, Kurtis Hewson shares why meeting roles are vital to the overall success of any team meeting. They ensure an environment of shared responsibility, an adherence to meeting structures to support overall effectiveness and productivity, and they boost engagement, as team members attend to their assigned roles.


    Learn more about meeting roles specific to collaborative team meetings in this blog posting - https://www.jigsawlearning.ca/publications/blog-posts/going-deeper-collaborative-team-meetings-7-roles-team-meetin


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    3 mins
  • Intentional Team Agenda and Notes to Ensure Clarity and Predictability
    Jun 27 2023

    In episode 23 of The Why Behind Collaborative Response series, Kurtis Hewson shares why an intentional agenda and notes documents for team meetings is integral to ensuring clarity and predictability, two components essential for empowering teams. He describes five things critical for agenda and notes documents - clarity of purpose, infusion of norms, meeting roles, time indications and inclusion of actions.


    Learn more about the agenda and notes document specific to collaborative team meetings in this blog posting - https://www.jigsawlearning.ca/publications/blog-posts/examining-collaborative-team-meetings-establishing-agenda


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    4 mins
  • Update Key Issues in Data Overviews
    May 27 2023

    In episode 22 of The Why Behind Collaborative Response series, Kurtis Hewson responds to a question often posed in schools trying to integrate key issues within their data overviews - “when we add a more recent set of data, or we see a change for a student in the classroom, should we be updating the key issue?” Kurtis shares some examples and considerations in relation to this key question.


    Want to access the sample you see in this video? Go to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QOF7f5fAAw_OzvpajrAitN0eamz1DRFAlcvAhRTzpnA/edit?usp=sharing


    Looking for a data overview template? Go to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AgHv3zKNbvteFFt4F8KTj-uo-kcgvC6QdM4IkMUd1qA/edit?usp=sharing


    Learn more about the key issue process in this blog posting - https://www.jigsawlearning.ca/publications/blog-posts/shifting-key-issues

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    4 mins
  • Connecting Collaborative Response to School Improvement
    May 20 2023

    In episode 21 of The Why Behind Collaborative Response series, Kurtis Hewson discusses how Collaborative Response, when deeply understood by schools with tight alignment between the foundational components, can become a framework for actualizing school improvement goals. If we want to move the needle in any priority area in our organization, we need to know who we should be focusing on, what we could be doing and how we hope to accomplish that through advanced layers of collaboration throughout the organization.


    Access a Connecting Collaborative Response to Organizational Priorities organizer - https://docs.google.com/document/d/10omgZx37-tDDzlpqchCgPHNF_5McPcbeHuUT-AK04aY/edit?usp=sharing


    Interested in learning more about the why in each of the foundational components? Check out these opening addresses for the 2022 Collaborative Response Symposium:

    • Day 1 - Collaborative Structures and Processes - https://youtu.be/54wyQENIegs
    • Day 2 - Data and Evidence - https://youtu.be/yZJuWKz0BPY
    • Day 3 - Continuum of Supports - https://youtu.be/6FzLYAsiZEY

    Episode in Youtube: https://youtu.be/fEcexQ66wHI


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    6 mins
  • The Impact of a Continuum of Supports
    Apr 1 2023

    In episode 19 of The Why Behind Collaborative Response series, Kurtis Hewson shares the impact the development, refinement and utilization of a continuum of supports has upon our response to student needs, as well as the ongoing examination of practice. Once established, a continuum of supports provides an anchor for continuous conversations about classroom practice and the most impactful supports we should be considering for students..
    Interested in learning some strategies for refining and utilizing your continuum of supports? Check out this article for ideas and further links - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YVwdhSC-yo0tesiu_eywpzX2RSEVwy87wSL4dx_dEus/edit?usp=sharing
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    5 mins
  • Understanding Tier 1 and 2 for a Continuum of Supports
    Mar 25 2023

    In this episode of The Why Behind Collaborative Response, Kurtis Hewson covers the understanding of a continuum of supports for tiers 1 and 2.


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    Learn more about Jigsaw Learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4rT_D9RCEY

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    Join the Facebook Group “The Collaborative Leader”, to engage in further conversations and resource sharing with others dedicated to ensuring effective teams and collaborative structures - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thecollaborativeleader


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    9 mins
  • Maximizing Student Success: The Importance of Layered Meetings
    Mar 18 2023

    In this episode of The Why Behind Collaborative Response, Lorna Hewson explains the importance of layering meetings.

    Learn more about the Purposeful Layering of Team Meetings in this blog - https://www.jigsawlearning.ca/publications/blog-posts/scaffolding-our-collaborative-response-purposeful-layering-t
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