Strategy Harvest

1. Strategy Harvest • Find the Fiction • Line Up • Jot Thoughts • Cycle of Learning • ThinkWriteRoundRobin • Stick to your Beliefs • 5 Whys • Gallery Walk • True/False • World Café • 4 Corners • Checkerboard • StandUp HandUp PairUp • ThinkTime • Talking Chips • Love it/Leave it/Lose it • Co-constructing Criteria • Strip & Sort • Spin the Board

2. Find the Fiction “Participants write three statements and read them to teammates. Teammates try to “find” which of the three statements is the fiction.” Statement 1 Statement 2 Statement 3

3. Beliefs • Think-Write-RoundRobin • Individually reflect and record your beliefs about curriculum, instruction , and assessment (3-5 minutes). • Your prompt is • I believe… • Person who was up the earliest time begins sharing one of their beliefs • Other teammates record statements that are different than those on their own papers. • Sharing moves in clockwise direction with participants sharing new belief statements only.

4. Stick to your Beliefs • One belief sheet is put in the middle • Each person is given 3 stickers • Silently each person stickers their top 3 beliefs • You now have generated a list of your team beliefs • As you move on in your work make sure that your work is guided by those beliefs

5. 5 Why Protocol Pattern Statement: The CIA initiative was created to support curriculum, instruction and assessment in our secondary school. Why: _______________________________________ Why? Why? Why? Why?

6. 5 Why Gallery Walk Gallery Walk: Using the tape provided, participants post their work on the wall. Participants circle the room, viewing the other participants’/groups’ work. As participants circle, they look for patterns and trends, similarities and differences. Upon returning to their table, participants share observations with their group.

7. JotThoughts & RoundRobin JOT THOUGHTS: Facilitator provides prompt or question for participants. Participants have 1 minute: Individually record the questions/answers/observations they have on a post-it – 1 item per post-it. ROUND ROBIN: In their groups, participants take turns sharing their JotThoughts. The person with the next birthday in the group will start. If participants have any duplicate items, stack them together to avoid repetition.

8. True or False Facilitator posts TRUE/FALSE signs in the room. Facilitator posts or reads out a statement to participants, instructing them to turn the appropriate direction. Participants: If you believe the statement is true turn to your left. If you believe the statement is false turn to the right.

9. World Cafe Teams disperse evenly amongst the tables. Everyone moves except one anchor at each table. Round 1 = 5 minutes Anchor at the table begins by sharing their group’s work in response to a question/prompt provided by the facilitator. Other participants at table respond and share their connections, ask questions. Round 2 = 5 minutes Process is repeated with a new question or prompt. Round 3 = 5 minutes Process is repeated a final time with a new question or prompt. Teams return to their group to debrief.

10. 4 Corners… Facilitator posts chosen images in each of the four corners. Facilitator provides a stem statement: If _________ was a _______ (e.g. If adult learning was a beverage, then it would be a…) Structure: Participants get up and move to their chosen corner. In their corner group, participants share their reasons for choosing their corner to complete the stem.

11. Checkerboard • Find a checkerboard quote that you connect with. • Participate in a StandUp-HandUp-PairUp. StandUp-HandUp-PairUp: “Participants stand up, put their hands up, and quickly find a partner with whom to share or discuss”

12. Talking Chips “Participants each receive a specific number of talking chips. Each time a participant contributes to the group conversation, they must place one of their chips at the center of the table until they are out of talking chips.” Statement 1 Statement 2 Statement 3

13. Consensus Structures Strategy: Round Table Consensus Each member of the group verbally shares a their contribution with the group. The entire group must approve with a thumbs-up before the criterion is recorded or accepted. Strategy: Love it, Leave it, Lose it Participants silently reflect on their group’s work. Participants record what they love, what they would modify, and what they would eliminate. Participants can share these with the group using a structure like RoundRobin or Talking Chips. Love itLeave it, but edit Lose it

14. Co-constructing Criteria Participants individually record the criteria for the given topic on the strips of paper provided. Facilitators may use structures like RoundRobin and consensus structures like RoundTable Consensus or Love it, Leave it, Lose it to ensure all voices are heard as participants share their criteria.

15. Strip and Sort • Look at the brainstormed criteria and begin to categorize like criterion • Determine if there are any missing items and add additional strips where necessary • Determine the “big ideas” for each category

16. Spin the board • On a large whiteboard or a piece of chart paper, participants record their responses to a prompt or question. • Participants spin board. They will spend 2 min reading & reacting. Try to reserve judgment. • Date #1: 2 minsDate #2: 2 minsDate #3: 2 mins • Addcomments,questions, feedback, suggestions, etc.