Collaboration 2.0March 27, 2017

Welcome! Housekeeping

• CIS of Chicago– Community Partnership Team– Blog

• Social Media– Facebook: Communities In Schools of Chicago– Twitter: CIS of Chicago

• WiFi

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Welcome! Introductions

–Your name–Your org–Pie or cake?

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Icebreaker

• In pairs- sitting back to back

• Each person will get a picture

• Don’t let your partner see your picture!

• Don’t tell your partner or say what your picture is of

• Coach your partner to draw what you are looking at using your words only

• Any questions?

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Reflection

• What was this activity essentially about?

• What did you notice?

• What was easy?

• What was hard?

• What are your takeaways?

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What is Collaboration?

Collaboration is the mutually beneficial and

well-defined relationship entered into by two or more

organizations to achieve common goals.

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“Collaboration leads to creativity”

Types of Collaboration

Resource SharingOrganizations, typically those working in the same or similar program areas, share vocabulary and best practices

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Types of Collaboration

CooperationOrganizations join together to strengthen their reach by intentionally providing their programs in schools sequentially or as enrichment to another program/class.

Key idea: your programs can and will still exist without your collaborative partner

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Types of Collaboration

ConstructionOrganizations join together and create an entirely new program

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Types of Collaboration- Activity

You need:

The 4 quarter sheets in your folder

You’ll work:

In small groups

Your goal:

To classify the type of collaboration demonstrated in each scenario

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Types of Collaboration- Activity

Let’s see how we did!

Any questions or shared reflection?

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Mock Collaborations

Let’s go over the worksheet:•The Specific Goal is specific to your organization

•The Broad Collaborative Goal is more general and not necessarily specific to your organization

•Assets can be lots of things- physical space to funders

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Mock Collaborations

Let’s go over the worksheet:•Commonalities between our goals: we both wants students to create or improve a specific skill

•Brainstorming: Free write- Dream big- think small- brain dump

•Collective Objective: share your free write ideas and decide which is best- reword into an objective

•Type of Collaboration: Which area of collaboration fits best?

•Tangible next step: can’t be just a meeting

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Mock Collaborations

Let’s go over the worksheet:•Commonalities between our goals: we both wants students to create or improve a specific skill

•Brainstorming: Free write- Dream big- think small- brain dump

•Collective Objective: share your free write ideas and decide which is best- reword into an objective

•Type of Collaboration: Which area of collaboration fits best?

•Tangible next step: can’t be just a meeting

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Mock Collaborations- Activity

You need:

The collaboration worksheet that has already been filled out

You’ll work:

In pairs with someone who has a different mock organization’s worksheet

Your goal:

To role play as if you are a program manager of your organizations and to develop a collaboration plan

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BREAK

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Resource Sharing

You need:

Your collaboration worksheet (front filled out)

You’ll work:

In your focus areas- large groups

Your goal:

To gain resources from folks in common program areas.

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Resource Sharing

Once you are in your groups, share your expertise and answer one of the questions below:

1. What is one thing your organization does differently or is unique to your organization?

OR

2. What is you most successful classroom activity?

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Resource Sharing

Group Share out

**Note this information scribed will be available on our blog**

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Cooperation

You need:

Your collaboration worksheet (front filled out--edited if necessary)

You’ll work:

In pairs- with someone who has a different colored name tag

Your goal:

To develop a collaboration plan that you plan to implement in the real world

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Cooperation

Pair to pair share

Major takeaways

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Go Find 10

You need:

Your partner organization worksheet

You’ll work:

Solo

Your goal:

To meet 10 new people- share your expertise and any other info you’d like from your worksheet

Check that you met someone from the corresponding organization and take any notes

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Reflection

• Recap

• How do you feel about collaboration and the process?

• What other takeaways do you want to share?

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Resources and Eval

• Evals- please complete– Please also fill out the 60-day survey when they come to you!

• Resource:– Collaboration Matrix

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Thank you!

Stay for wine and cheese!

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