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Building Capacity in
Ourselves and Others
Culturally Responsive Leadership in a Collaborative
Learning Environment
Welcome to our collaborative learning environment.
Today, we have attempted to create an environment for something special to take place:A collaborative learning environment in which you
are a participant and a presenter.We have high expectations for you!
What is a collaborative and reciprocal learning environment?
Competence
Results
Culture
Conditions
Context
Context
Conditions
Context
Competence
Conditions
Context
Competence
Results
Culture
Conditions
Context
Competence
Results
Culture
Conditions
Context
Collaborative and Reciprocal Learning Environment
• Focus is on the learner
• Interaction is critically important
• Primary learning mode is working in groups
• Practical: deals with problems faced in real
world
Your invitation to enter into a learning focused conversation
Why you might want to do that:
• Build your capacity• Unpack your understanding of who you are
as a learner• Strengthen your knowledge, ability, skill• Make you a better teacher and leader• Be able to improve the structure and process of
your own classroom/site/district
Your invitation to enter into a learning focused conversation
Why you might want to do that:
• Help yourself; help others• You are not alone (a very
powerful understanding)• Validation of current practices• Know that you belong as you get to know
colleagues
You
Your Partner
Learning-focused Conversations:The Continuum of Interaction Stances
Sharing expertise, providing technical assistance
Shared planning and
problem solving
Non-judgmental
interaction to support
reflection and develop capacity
CoachCollaborate Consult
Learning Focused Conversation:Guiding Questions
Consulting Collaborating Coaching
What information, ideas and technical resources will be
most useful to this
person at this time?
What are some ways
to balance my contributions with
this person’s
experience and
expertise?
What mental and
emotional resources might be most useful for this person
right now?
Learning Focused Conversation:Roles and Functions
Consulting Collaborating Coaching
•Proposing•Naming•Providing•Defining•Confirming
•Co-analyzing•Co-constructing•Co-developing•Jointly clarifying•Expanding•Agreeing
•Exploring•Eliciting•Clarifying•Enhancing•Mediating
Learning Focused Conversation:Cues
Consulting Collaborating Coaching
Credible voice
• Neutral language or personal pronouns
Approachable voice
• Collective pronouns
Approachable voice
• Second person pronouns
“I think that …”
“It is important to …”
“Here is one way to think about that”
“Let’s think about …”
“How might we …”
What are some of your...?”
“How might you... ?”
The Meta Conversation: Happening at Different Levels Simultaneously
Your Partner
You
Let's think about how we can accomplish this ...
I invite you to take a risk and participate as a reciprocal learner:
• Be real, be authentic, be open and engaged• Bring yourself
•Your lifelong history and experience
•Your values and perspectives
•Your knowledge and practice
•Your learning style and philosophies
•Your intention to co-create
Be a reciprocal learner
... even if that's outside your usual comfort zone
Be accepting and willing to share without insisting that your stance is the only "right" one
Strive to make meaning from new experiences of the day
kevinharrigan.com
If you wish to contact me:
The following slides are provided to show each part of Slide 14, the heavily animated slide on continuum of stances.
This can aid in the production of handouts, if you wish.
You
Your Partner
Learning-focused Conversations:The Continuum of Interaction Stances
You
Your Partner
Learning-focused Conversations:The Continuum of Interaction Stances
Sharing expertise, providing technical assistance
Consult
You
Your Partner
Learning-focused Conversations:The Continuum of Interaction Stances
Non-judgmental
interaction to support
reflection and develop capacity
Coach Consult
You
Your Partner
Learning-focused Conversations:The Continuum of Interaction Stances
Shared planning and
problem solving
CoachCollaborate Consult
