COOPERATIVE MEETINGS

Leading and Inspiring Staff!

2 Day workshop

Transform your staff meetings into cooperative meetings, and make them engaging, inspiring, and educational.

Experience why Michael Fullan states, “Cooperative Meetings is a treasure chest of ideas, resources, and activities for staff developers and others wishing to engage in dynamic learning experiences. No other resource exists that contains such a comprehensive set of strategies to enhance learning for all.”

This workshop gives you the step-by-step structures to transform your faculty into a community of leaders and learners.

Cooperative Meetings was field tested for fifteen years in one of the world’s most acclaimed school districts, transforming staff relations and school practices.

Learn collaborative decision making structures so there are never winners and losers as your staff works together for school improvement.

Improve staff relations; bring out the best in your teachers. Create engagement among all staff members, releasing energy in your meetings and beyond. Make staff meetings a joyful time every teacher prizes.

Join other principals and school leaders who are transforming their schools by transforming their meetings—release the power of Cooperative Meetings.

Leave with inspiration and direction to create the dream school—a community of motivated, caring teachers.

Workshop Highlights

  • Motivate your staff with energising staff-building ideas

  • Become an instructional leader by modelling active learning in your own faculty or staff meetings

  • Build positive relationships among your staff

  • Have fun and solve problems together with initiative tasks and games

  • Learn structures to make collaborative decisions and maximise teacher buy-in

  • Discover how to use your time wisely by what you cover and what you leave out

  • Build a learning community to grow together as professionals

  • Develop personal commitment and investment in the school

  • Create a shared vision with your staff and work together to make it a reality

With your attendance, you will receive:

  • Kagan Cooperative Meetings Workbook

  • Kagan Cooperative Meetings Book/Binder

  • “Kagan Structures totally changed my classroom for the better and I am hoping to lead change in our district with the community meeting structures.”

    —BECKI BROWN, K-12 STAFF DEVELOPMENT

  • “The information will be very useful in me changing how my faculty and staff interact to share information, train, and make decisions. Building a team and culture is very important.”

    —BEVERLY COLE, PRINCIPAL

  • “Outstanding! I can go back to my school feeling confident and ready to tackle any problems in our school. Kagan Structures are #1 in my book!”

    —RENATTA ESPINOZA, PRINCIPAL

  • “Today we had our kickoff with our teachers and rolled out the PLC philosophy to our staff embedded with several relationship building activities and numerous structures to allow the teachers to be engaged and to process the information. At the end of the day, my Assistant Principal got several comments from staff that this was the best kickoff they have had and that they loved the engagement and time to process and reflect that the structures provided. Carol L. was right! Cooperative Meetings training has changed the way our school does business. Your training at the Summer Academy was exceptional and I thank you for giving me these tools to engage my staff.”

    -RODNEY SAUNDERS, PRINCIPAL

  • “I have just finished the second day of preschool week with my teachers and I could not let another minute go by without sending you an email to let you know that Cooperative Meetings are LIFE CHANGING!! Being a part of your training at Summer Academy and taking my learning back and implementing Cooperative Meetings has been transformational. Even though it has only been two days, the relationship building that my teachers have done with one another is AMAZING. I am hearing laughter, seeing smiles, and watching lightbulbs go on all across the room. It is so cool to see people sitting in cooperative teams with people that they have never worked with before. Even more rewarding is the opportunity to model structures and then lead teachers in reflection about how they can implement these same activities in their own classrooms with their own students. Thank you, thank you, thank you for giving me the confidence and skills necessary to not only transform my own teaching, but to positively influence the teaching of some already amazing educators who are ready to take it to the next level!”

    -MELISSA BOOTH, ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL FOR CURRICULUM, CALOOSA MIDDLE SCHOOL

“Me mahi tatou kia kaha te iwi.”

— Maori whakatauki