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Review the Critical Issue for Team Consideration, pages 100 & 101. What areas do we need to work on addressing in our teams in order for our teams to be more collaborative and have a greater impact on student achievement? > Joe Paterno said, when a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellance becomes a reality. A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of herself/himself to praise the skills of the others. Coming together is a beginning, keeping together a progress, working together a success.(C. Riddlehoover)
 * The "Critical Issues" list is great brainstorming and organization, but collaboration goals should directly reflect the school SAT goals and focus on progress toward meeting those needs already identified. Helping teams feel more ownership of objectives set for grade levels is the best incentive toward accomplishing those goals and objectives. Let's take care to avoid the oppressive overload teachers perceive in these great expectations.(S.Rahm)
 * We need to make sure that we support team members that feel ineffective in an area instead of being critical of them. We do not want our team to unravel due to a team member fearing criticism.(E. Harris)
 * I feel that we need to make each team member feel a sense of responsibilty for the team as a whole. They say that 2 heads are better than one and we realize the more collaboration we have the more productive our teams will be. (K.Jared)
 * I know I'm more productive and confident in my abilities when I have direction with planning and that I'm part of something that is having an impact. This will definitely affect and "spill over" to our students and help them in my opinion. (J.Waynick)