Saturday, October 14, 2006

When to Intervene...

There is no question that the work of learning teams is not always smooth and easy. Anytime you ask groups of teachers--or any human beings, for that matter--to work together, there are going to be periods of tension or outright conflict.

A challenge for administrators, then, is determining when to intervene. Is it ever appropriate for an administrator to step in and provide correction to teams that are struggling--or should conflict in a group be handled only by members of a learning team?

These questions are examined by Parry Graham, an assistant principal who has facilitated learning teams for the past three years, and Bill Ferriter, a teacher and member of a middle school learning team, in the first installment of Counterpoint, a bimonthly podcast focused on issues related to PLC implementation.

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