The DEEL Reel: Structuring Meetings: Summarizing Strategies

Heads nod and smiles emerge at the end of a meeting doesn't always indicate understanding, agreement or readiness for action! Join me in this last video on Summarizing Strategies to learn how to provide participants opportunities to clarify understandings and next steps. Click on the picture to view the video! Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash

The DEEL Reel: Structuring Meetings: Episode 6 – Organizing and Integrating

How do you move from dialogue to discussion to decision making in meetings? How do you build collective responsibility for student learning? How do you make decisions actionable? In this episode, we will delve into protocols that you can use in your meetings to bring about collective responsibility by providing clear actionable steps for group...

The DEEL Reel – Structuring Meetings: Exploring and Discovering

http://Photo by N. on Unsplash Welcome back to DEEL REELS! This is episode 5 in the series of Structuring Meetings. In the first four series, we looked at setting the tone for your meeting; how to incorporate inclusion activities; we then looked at creating agendas, working agreements and meeting outcomes; and in episode 4 we...

The DEEL REEL – Structuring Meetings: Activating and Engaging Protocols

Have you ever sat in a meeting that was chaotic and disorganized? Have you ever wondered how to create meetings where they are purposeful, and have tight protocols for sharing thoughts and ideas? If so, you will enjoy this series on How to Structure Meetings. In this episode, we will explore protocols for activating and...

The DEEL Reel – Structuring Meetings: Episode 3 – Outcomes, Agendas, Working Agreements

Welcome back to Structuring Meetings! Would you like to bring clarity to your meetings? Well, in this episode we look closely at the importance of creating meeting outcomes, agendas and working agreements to clearly define the big picture (outcomes), the roadmap to follow (agendas) and how we will all agree to behave (working agreements). Find...

The DEEL Reel – Structuring Meetings: Episode 2 – Inclusion Activities

Welcome back to DEEL Reel! This video clip is the second in the series of how to plan well structured meetings. Episode one focused on how to set the tone at the beginning of your meeting by setting clear expectations, defining the purpose and clarifying outcomes. Episode two will explore how to incorporate inclusion activities...

The DEEL Reel – Structuring Meetings: Episode 1 – Setting Expectations

Have you ever sat through a meeting and wondered why you were there? Have you ever left a meeting and thought, that could have been an email? Have you ever been in a meeting where you were confused and did not understand the purpose or goal of the meeting? If you answered yes to any...

Indoctrination to Education

I remember my first year in education: Kindergarten.  As the baby of the family, I was beyond excited to finally be able to board the bus and head to school with my brother and sister.  Back then kindergarten students went to school for a half day. There were morning and afternoon classes, and I was...

Peering Into a Community of Practice

Over the past year I have had the opportunity to be drenched in happiness while working with Facilitating Teachers in Pitt County, and it has been exciting to watch the transformation of our teacher leaders in this new role.  While there are so many incredible Communities of Practice (CoP’s) at work in Pitt County Schools,...