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Your team is a Collaborative Learning Team. A Collaborative Learning Team is a team of educators that are at a more advanced level of professional collaboration and have a tendency to focus more on collegial dialogue and maximizing team performance. Although this is a rare and advanced stage of team development, there is always room to grow. As a leader you can better support this team if you lead them from where they are and encourage them towards more complex levels of team collaboration. Below are a few recommendations in supporting your team.CulturePurpose: Have the team identify their beliefs and develop a shared purpose.Mindset: Support the team where they are; teachers will likely be committed to their own values and the team performance.ConditionsStructure: Provide space and seating that encourages collaborative inquiry and shared leadershipProvide time for team to meet regularlyNorms: Support the team in co-creating team agreements focused on psychological safety and voice equityCultivate trust and respect on the team by giving all team members opportunities to demonstrate their competency and expertiseFoster trust and respect by giving the team opportunity for autonomy and self-directionProvide psychologically safety by helping the team align the their individual beliefs and values and the team's shared beliefs and values with that of the school's beliefs and valuesProcess: Support the team in co-creating team agreements focused on psychological safety and voice equityCultivate trust and respect when invited to demonstrate and share their competency and expertise, and when given ample opportunity for autonomy and self-direction.Provide psychologically safety with alignment of personal, collegial, and organizational values and beliefs.CompetenciesCause and Effect: Facilitate the team in uncovering their hidden assumptionsSupport the team in co-creating a team goal and provide time and space for team members to create their own individual goalsGuide the team in creating outcomes that are larger in scopeGuide the team in co-creating actions for students, teacher, teams, and leaders that will support achievement of the student outcomes Guide the team in identify possible barriers to successSupport the team in co-constructing high yield activities: analyzing standards, developing common assessments aligned to the standards, developing common lessons or strategies aligned to the standards and looking at student work samples to help inform their instructionProvide the team space for innovating best practices that improve performancePurposeful Practice: Support the team's professional learning by providing resources and facilitating Collaborative Inquiry Support the team's professional learning by providing resources and facilitating Lesson StudySupport the team's professional learning by providing the team an opportunity to join a Critical Friends GroupSupport the team's professional learning by providing resources and facilitating dialogue on Race/Equity Encourage the team to analyze student data with full transparencyMonitor: Celebrate team performance and recognize team valueRecognize individual competence and expertiseProvide clear and actionable feedback aligned to what they value Support the team in reflecting together and modifying team actions and/or process to improve student learning Additional recommendations for Leading this team towards their Growth EdgeAs a leader you can support your team at increasing their level of collaboration and team efficacy using some of these strategies:1. Provide opportunities for the team to find value in viewpoints that feel diametrically opposed to their own2. Encourage the team to critically examine their own values, beliefs, and philosophies about teaching, leadership, and the world3. Provide the team opportunities to engage in shared leadership4. Encourage the team to explore and hold multiple perspectives on teaching and learning5. Emphasize the importance of care and candor when providing one another feedback6. Emphasize openness and the assumption of positive intentions during debates of new initiatives, change, anddecision making