Creating collaborative effectiveness: One school’s approach

Creating the conditions for effective teacher collaboration has been seen as a critical component of the work that leaders have been engaged in at Stonefields School since it opened in 2011. Acknowledgement that collaboration can be an opportunity, but also be challenging at times, has informed elements of ongoing professional learning. One of these has been in growing teacher capacity to have sensemaking conversations, a disposition seen as especially relevant when teachers are working together in shared innovative learning environments.