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COLLABORATION

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Photos except where noted by John Pinderhughes


COLLABORATION

Champion Creatively Alive Children Series

Creativity

Communication

Arts-Infused Education Advocacy

PLUS

The 4 Cs: 21st Century Skills

Creativity Connects Us

Creativity Connects Schools with Families

Creativity Connects the World

Critical Thinking

Collaboration Working in partnership with others toward a common goal


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Objectives for Collaboration Workshop

What we will be

doing together…

Participant

expectations…


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4 Kinds of

Creative Collaboration

for Schools

Creative collaboration between the

school and the broader community

Warm-Up Exercise

Creative collaboration among students

Creative collaboration among faculty

Creative collaboration between

educators and parents

Photo by eMedia Works


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4 Cs of Collaboration

Common Goal

Contributions

Compromise–Consensus

Creative, Collaborative Culture


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Dispelling Myths

Myth

When students study or work

together, it’s “like cheating.”

Reality When students collaborate, they learn

valuable skills.

Assertive, popular students

take over and shy, less

popular students are left

behind.

With skilled instruction, collaborating

enables children to share what they

know and can do with others with

whom they might not routinely interact.

Collaborative learning

experiences are hard for

teachers to grade.

Self- and peer assessments show how

students handle conflicts, distribute

workloads, provide feedback and

contribute.


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COLLABORATION VIDEO

http://www.crayola.com/creativelyalive


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Four Cornerstones of Collaboration

Group Exercise


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Common Goal

Do collaborators

understand the

shared objectives

and their roles

when they work

as a group or

on a team?


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How are individual contributions and abilities to work

as a team assessed?

Contributions

Are the talents and skills of everyone in the group leveraged?

Is everyone given the opportunity to make contributions?

Do you assign roles that play to individual strengths?

Are diverse points of view solicited and welcomed?

How is feedback used to improve collaboration?


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Compromise–

Consensus

Do collaborators have opportunities

to share constructive feedback?

Do collaborators know how to

compromise and reach consensus?

Is the decision making process

clear? If no compromise or

consensus is reached, who

makes the ultimate decision?


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Creative,

Collaborative Culture

How is conflict handled? Are

disagreements handled respectfully? Photo by eMedia Works

Does the group have strategies to make

sure everyone contributes—without some

people dominating or others left out?

Is there a culture of creative collaboration

—an environment in which people

respect one another’s ideas and nurture

creative expression?


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Team Sculpture

Challenge

Hands-On Exercise

This timed exercise gives teams

experience in using the 4 Cs of the

collaborative process…

• The objective is for your team to

build the Tallest Upright

Standing Tower of Geometric

Shapes. Use Crayola Model

Magic® and use all 4 shapes:

spheres, cubes, cones and

pyramids.

• For 8 minutes work together to

assemble your shapes into the

tallest sculpture possible,

making sure that it stands

upright.

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Team Sculpture

Challenge

Hands-On Exercise

Collaborative Process

After the teams completed their

towers, discuss the process of

working together:

• Did all team members understand

and work towards a common goal?

• Were roles clearly defined?

• Were individual contributions

respected and fully used?

• Was any compromise or consensus

reached?

• Who was the ultimate decision

maker?

• How would team members rate their

collaborative culture?


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Draw Your Collaborative Culture

• Does the culture feel supportive or divisive?

Hands-On Exercise

• Do group members share a common goal?

• Are individual contributions respected

and fully used?

• How are conflicts handled?

• Is there a process for compromise

and consensus building?

• Who are the decision makers?

• Who has input into decisions?


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Assessing Creative Collaborative Culture • Reflect on the collaborative

culture shown in sketches.

• Use the Collaboration Assessment

Handout as a tool to deepen the

discussion.


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Key Points

The role of educators, parents and community

members is to collaborate for students’ success,

develop students’ collaboration skills and foster

a culture of collaboration. Photo by eMedia Works

Collaboration is a fundamental 21st century skill.

The arts give people a context for collaboration

—and an engaging way to learn together.

The 4 Cs of collaboration—a Common Goal,

Contributions, Compromise–Consensus

and a Creative, Collaborative Culture—help

us understand the key elements of collaboration

for students and adults.


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