Tool: Team Task Tracking

Instructions: The best way to ensure that your collaborative work doesn’t become stagnant is to look for patterns in the kinds of tasks that you are completing with one another during your regular meetings. Over the next quarter, record the date in the appropriate row every time that you tackle one of these tasks in a team meeting. Then, during your next quarterly reflection, use the data that you collect and the reflection questions at the bottom of this template to determine next steps worth taking together.

When was the last time that your learning team . . .

Revisited or revised your norms together?

Read or reflected on a professional article together?

Defined essential learning outcomes for an upcoming unit of study together?

Wrote a common assessment together?

Used a protocol to look at common assessment results or student work samples together? Planned a remediation or extension activity together?

Developed a set of exemplars or proficiency scales for subjective tasks together?

Took time to intentionally celebrate your successes?

Questions for Reflection

Where is your team spending the bulk of its collaborative time? Are you spending more time on some tasks than others? Are there any tasks that your team hasn’t tackled yet? What tasks would you like to see your team take on moving forward?