Good work today includes the following steps:
- Tight focus. This is our aim.
- Timely, transparent research and rationale. This is why we are choosing this learning path.
- Drafts and Proposals: This is the research-based, plan or design.
- Crowdshare and Face-to-Face Choice and Voice. What do you think? What would you choose? Why?
- Decisions and Direction. Here's where we're heading. This is what we've decided.
- Reflection, Revision and Communication. How's it going? How can we make it better? Here are some examples.
- Assessment. Quantifying effect. Creating next steps.
Good work today includes positive relationships too.
- Time to meet, talk, collaborate.
- Optimal teams in numbers, intent, focus. (not too big, not too small)
- Regular communication.
- Protocols, norms.
- Empathy, compassion, care, and respect.
- Commitment, investment.
The complexity in schools is mainly due to numbers--numbers of daily interactions, numbers of daily transitions, numbers of initiatives and goals, numbers of new ideas, and limitless potential.
Thinking about what it takes to do good work as a member of a learning community is daunting as there's always room for improvement and growth.
