Activity Directions: Setting the Focus for Learning Teams

· Understand the four critical questions that guide professional learning communities.

· Develop a plan to share the questions with learning teams throughout the organization.

1. Collect poster paper, markers and post-its and pens.

2. Make copies or give participants access to handout.

a. Handout: Setting the Focus

1. Break the team into pairs and have partners discuss why a focus on learning and results orientation.

2. As pairs come to consensus on why they think a focus on learning and results orientation are important combine with other pairs until the full group reaches consensus.

3. Distribute Activity Handout 2: Setting the Focus.

4. Mix up the team into small groups and have them discuss how the four critical questions might help guide the work of teams and how they could best be shared. Ask each team to develop a poster outlining why they think these questions are important and how they would share them with the team.

5. Give each person post-its to leave any comments on other posters about considerations or questions they might have on other group thinking.

6. As a whole team develop a plan on how to share the four critical questions with teams and make them an essential part of learning team meetings.