Updates & News

1. Updates & News • Today’s Focus • Lessons for leaders • My reflections to our key questions • Final paper feedback groups • Your reflections on the course

2. Implications for leaders: Slavin, Little, and Hackman Discussion of Readings Don’t just start talking, first decide on your strategy (think back to Perkins) . . . and refer back to readings from the entire semester: What are 3-4 key ideas? What are 2-3 differences? What are 2-3 implications?

3. Reflections Our Guiding Questions What does it mean for a group to learn? What are key dynamics that support/thwart group learning? How can leaders support group learning?

4. When is a group? What does it mean for a group to learn?

5. My POV: to socially develop behaviors for generating and integrating knowledge in order to solve meaningful problems. • What does it look like? • Individual, team, community • Formal, informal, incidental (Marsick) • Single- and double-loop (Argyris & Schon) • Cooperative, collaborative, transformative (Cranton) • My claim: • Groups can perform without learning, but cannot learn without performing. What does it mean for a group to learn?

6. What are key dynamics that support/thwart learning?

7. How can leaders support group learning?Designing cultures that allows these dynamics to exist generatively

8. Final paper feedback groups

9. Suggest Concerns Value Clarify Feedback to our draft papers . . .

10. Final reflections . . . • What have you most appreciated or valued? • What would you suggest I consider to support the group learning next year?

11. For the weeks ahead. . . • Article summaries up by Tues • Final Papers due Nov 20-Dec 3 (email TFs when you post) • Course Evaluations Nov 25-Dec 16