1. Developing Community for Effective Collaboration Spruce Group Jerome Cannon Jeanette Neyman Rachael Price Tracy Staten

6. When Groups Work + As a department, teachers worked together toward a common goal: increasing EOC achievement scores. By dividing the work, collaborating, sharing, and being consistent, the department was able to achieve its goal, and impacted other departments as well.

7. … and Don’t Work - SIT (School Improvement Team): In one school, the SIT team (composed of 20) only has 4 productive members. While there are "common goals," there is no vested interest in any of the participants because there is no assessment of success or failure. Some of them work because it is their inherent nature to do a good job, but most people don't want to be there, but are mandated to join a team, and therefore contribute very little to the experience.