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Clarifying Meeting Commitments

Procedural Expectations/Agreements

Such as "laptops closed unless needed", "start and end on time".

Behavioural Expectations/Agreements

Such as "use the norms of collaboration", "keep an inquiry mindset"

Norms of Collaboration [Adaptive Schools]

Useful Reading: Leading Teams & Meetings

ASCD: The Power of Team Norms
Setting and sticking to shared agreements can transform team dynamics.
HBR: Eight Ground Rules For Great Meetings
Procedural vs behavioural agreements and commitments.
Steve Barkley: Leading With Teams
Structures and practices that promote effective teams, and the five dysfunctions of a team.
Steve Barkley: Leadership Actions To Lead Teams
The importance or Flow, Relationships & Vision within a team.

Thinking Collaborative: Adaptive Schools
Resources, strategies and videos for Adaptive Schools.
Adaptive Schools: Strategies & Moves
[pdf] Comprehensive toolkit for meeting stratgies.
PZ Thinking Routines Toolbox
Searchable toolkit of Routines, including Core routines and approaches to guide different forms of thinking.
School Reform Initiative Protocols
Collected protocols for a range of purposes, inc. dialogue, data analysis and teams.
HGSE Usable Knowledge: Quality Protocols
"High-quality discussion protocols to prompt collaborative, responsive learning"
Bright Morning - Elena Aguilar
Free resources for The Art of Coaching: Teams and Equity.
Meeting Wise
Making the Most of Collaborative Time for Educators, from Harvard's Graduate School of Education
NSRF: Data Protocols
Lots of protocols and discussion structures from NSRF, home of "Critical Friends".

"Protocols are about democratising conversation." Darnell Fine