Cobb Collaborative Communities

The ultimate goal of a CCC is...

• free snacks

• waste teacher's planning period

• improving student achievement

• collaborating with students

Educators who are building CCCs recognize that they must work together to achieve their collective purpose of learning for all. Therefore, they create structures to promote a collaborative culture.

• False

• True

• Who knows?

• My way is always the best way.

What does CCC stand for?

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Cold Calling Collaborators

• Cobb County Coaches

• Cobb Collaborative Communities

Team norms are...

• vital commitments that promote mutual respect and keep the team meetings positive and productive.

• don't exist; the only norm is there aren't any norms.

• written down somewhere, but they aren't enforced.

• are somewhat important, but not necessary to our team's success

What are the 3 Big Ideas of the CCC process?

• Focus on teaching standards-based content

• Focus on learning

• Collaboration

• Results-Oriented

• Rituals and routines

What is a common formative assessment (CFA)?

• Team-designed, intentional measures used for the purpose of monitoring student achievement throughout the instructional process.

• A team-designed assessment created to measure students' growth over an entire unit, at the end of a unit.

• A test used to evaluate student learning at the beginning of an instructional unit.

• An assessment made by a teacher and shared with his/her grade level members.

Which choice shows one of DuFour's 4 Essential Questions?

• What are the inequalities or inequities that exist in our school? 

• How will we know when they have learned it?

• What did we learn today?

• What is the student's responsibility in his or her learning?