Culture of Learning

Standard 5: Professional staff members embrace effective collegiality and collaboration in support of learners.

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Self-Rating: 3

The institution’s documented operating practices cultivate and set expectations for collegiality and collaboration. Professional staff members regularly interact with respect and cooperation, often learn from one another, and routinely consider one another’s ideas. Professional staff members often work together in self-formed or assigned groups to review information, identify common problems, and implement solutions on behalf of learners. 

 

At Chambers Public school the staff members meet regularly with assigned and self-formed groups and interact with each other respectfully to accomplish many tasks. The entire staff has regular meetings once or twice a month to talk about upcoming events, to help build community with all the staff members, and talk about expectations and collaboration opportunities that are available. In the elementary, staff members meet with professional learning communities to look at curriculum, talk about solutions to common problems that take place in the classrooms, and share strategies to help learners to be the most successful in and out of the classroom. The high school staff works in self-formed groups to find the best ways to help meet students’ needs, as well as talk about scheduling for the week and month. Other groups that meet regularly include the PBIS team, MTSS team, the leadership team, the support team, and the school improvement team. These teams collaborate on ideas about how to make the school a better place for students and staff members. 

 

Staff members also often learn from one another in many ways. New staff members are given mentors. These mentors help guide them as they navigate classroom management, instruction, and implement strategies to help learners. Overall, Chambers Public School staff members work collaboratively to help make sure that all of the learners' needs are being met and are open and willing to listen to other’s ideas and work in a respective environment.