Collaboration ≠ Cooperation
Tue, Jul 16
|The National Conference Center
NJEA Summer Professional Learning Institute ... What does it really means to be part of a collaborative team?


Time & Location
Jul 16, 2019, 9:00 AM
The National Conference Center, 399 Monmouth St, First Floor, East Windsor, NJ 08520, USA
About the event
“The nature of relationships among the adults within a school has a greater influence on the character and quality of that school and on student accomplishment than anything else.” — Roland S. Barth
As adults in schools, we strive to help our students develop strategies to manage their interpersonal relationships. Relationships amongst the faculty are equally important, and as educators, we need our own set of tools to successfully work with our colleagues. Schools ask teachers to work in a variety of collaborative models such as lead/associate, co-teaching, teaching teams, committee work, classroom teacher/specialists. Further, these teachers/staff bring different perspectives and come from different backgrounds and generations, resulting in misunderstandings, misaligned expectations of each other, and different relationship styles.
How can we cultivate tools to transform collegial relationships into collaborative ones? Just as schools encourage the development of classrooms that are responsive and attuned to the needs of our studen…