Collaboration
1. Professional Learning Processes (Great Minds)
2. Texas Partnership (Great Minds)
1. Professional Learning Processes
As a brand new team at Great Minds, we had the opportunity to influence processes and structures that would optimize efficiency and cost-effectiveness for our company, and timely responsiveness to our professional learning audience. This contributed to the scale, sustainability, and impact of all math professional learning. We collaborated with internal stakeholders to create standardized:
professional learning templates unique to the needs of adult learners.
facilitator guide components that effectively supported standardization of sessions while equipping facilitators to make informed adaptation decisions.
session structures that both increased efficiency for creating state-specific versions as well as for making adjustments for various grade bands.
processes for our work products that minimized the review time for subject matter experts and the math editorial team.
avenues of cross-team collaboration to ensure feedback and input on our deliverables from multiple teams, including: session run-throughs, co-observations to practice with protocols, quality control processes for on-demand, and watch parties for our video library.
communication structures with sales and marketing to ensure full knowledge and transparency about session availability, details, and updates, and with the content and digital teams to stay up to date on upcoming products or changes in products
practices with the training team to both support and lighten the lift of internalization of multiple sessions
plans for cross-team work with large partners to ensure alignment and comprehensive support.
The artifacts below represent just a few of these things.
"You [always] put [our team] in the best light, and you really sought to understand how our team could partner with you in meaningful ways. We have retold the story in our department so many times of you and Agnes at an observation, and you asking Agnes about what matters in our editing in that kind of moment. It was such a good push, and it actually catalyzed our goals for this year, preparing ourselves for a deep dive into the purpose of an editorial function for all kinds of products. That moment, and many others, continue to shape our role in the company -- I'm not sure you know how powerful your voice and that push was to us." -Meri Robi-Craven, Associate Director, Writing Editorial at Great Minds
Run-throughs include representatives from teams across the organization and Feedback Forms are differentiated by role to ensure the most strategic feedback from internal stakeholders.
Run-Through Example.mp4Session Run-through (excerpt)
Landing Pages
We updated and standardized this one-stop shop for participants for all session materials and resources, for both on-site and virtual sessions.
Feedback Form .docxInternal (LED) Feedback Form
Run-throughs include representative from teams across the organization and Feedback Forms are differentiated by role to ensure the most strategic feedback from internal stakeholders.
VA One Pager for Facilitators.pdfState-Specific One-Pagers
Provided to facilitators to ensure they are fully apprised of any differences in language, terms, or lessons from national sessions; we later created an audit process 🔽 for state-specific editions, which we used to revise national sessions to minimize differences and further lighten the facilitator lift.
Audit notes.docx2. Texas Partnership
Texas is a prominent user of the Eureka Math curriculum. Given their size and the number of internal teams instrumental in their supporting them effectively, it could be difficult to ensure support that is both comprehensive for them, and strategic for us. The LED team was instrumental in partnering with Texas educational leaders and with our internal Great Minds team to ensure we offered them cohesive, sustainable, aligned support to impact teachers, leaders, and students at scale.
The artifacts below represent some of this work.
Notes for Webinar Series.docxWebinar Planning Notes with Texas Education Agency (TEA)
Revised Module Study Process.pdfTEA Module Study Process
◀️ Texas 3-Year Professional Learning and Coaching Plan (excerpted)
3.EM.VPD.TX_Equitable_Access_for_Special_Populations_excerpt.pptx