For collaborative teams, one of the biggest challenges is knowing how to use time productively. Based on the masterful book, Collaborative Teams That Work, this highly practical retreat provides definitive guidance for teams to work through ongoing cycles of learning, so they can have maximum impact.

Gain a clear understanding of the specific actions and associated tasks that collaborative teams must carry out, along with the actions that leadership teams need to implement to support collaborative teams.

Overview

At their worst, collaborative teams can seem like yet another burden to bear – perhaps even a frustrating waste of time in a school day already overflowing with commitments.

If your team struggles to use its time productively, and is expected to work collaboratively with little support or knowledge on how to do this, it’s difficult to use the power of the group to have any real impact.

The authors of the masterful book, Collaborative Teams That Work, Colin Sloper and Gavin Grift, are your hosts in this one-day intensive retreat, which provides definitive guidance and support for school and team leaders. Designed specifically for Primary Educators; principals, assistant principals, collaborative teams, leadership staff, classroom teachers and specialist teachers, you’ll learn how to apply the essential evidence-based actions high-performing collaborative teams implement.

You’ll leave with new insights on how to overcome common challenges, measure impact and use clear processes to plan and conduct successful collaborative team meetings.

Unlike some other retreats, we spend much less time on the ‘how’ and ‘why’ – instead digging deeper into the actual tasks that collaborative teams in a PLC need to focus their efforts on.

This relates to the work itself but also to the many different aspects of managing and encouraging people within these teams.

Audience

This retreat is aimed at primary educators, including leaders of grade level teams, specialist teams, Professional Learning Communities (PLC) teams and collaborative team leaders.

Specifically, primary educators are supported to work through ongoing cycles of learning so that they can have maximum impact in their ongoing efforts to improve student learning.

You’ll Learn How to

Take Action

Investigate 12 actions and their associated tasks, and find out how to apply to them to your current work as teams.

Super Power Your Team

Discover the true work and focus of high-performing collaborative teams.

Make a Plan

Equip yourself with a clear process for planning and conducting collaborative team meetings that will lead to better results.

Overcome Obstacles

Develop insights into how to overcome the common challenges associated with working as a collaborative team.

Measure Impact

Learn how successful teams genuinely measure the impact they have on student learning and what to do about it.

Design Influential Agendas

Learn how successful teams utilise their agenda as the catalyst for getting real results in learning.

What’s unique about this retreat

Expert Led

Learn from the expertise of renowned educators and authors, Gavin Grift and Colin Sloper, who have spent their careers committed to researching, developing, applying and refining collaborative team processes that genuinely improve student learning and impact teacher practice.

We're Educators Too

We’ve worked as principals, professional learning providers, staff leaders, curriculum directors, coaches and classroom teachers – and we definitely speak your language.

Positive and Supportive

We’re here to help provide the support and inspiration you might be missing in your everyday professional life.

Contextualised

Primary educators are supported to work through a process where they can take their learning and apply it to their unique context immediately.

Includes Book

Every registration includes a copy of the best selling book, Collaborative Teams That Work.

You’ll leave this highly interactive retreat with a clear understanding of where your team is at in the collaborative teams process. Plus, you’ll find out what the next steps are to continue striving towards creating a high-performing team that has maximum impact on student learning.