Building a Culture of Collaboration

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Is the conversation around AI in our organizations feeling overwhelming?  Since your most valuable resource is time, the key question for leaders is: How can we strategically leverage AI to advance our collaborative efforts?

In this conversation, Kurtis and Lorna explore how to view AI not as a replacement, but as an indispensable thought partner—like adding one more member to your team. They share practical, high-impact strategies for integrating AI into your existing collaborative efforts.

Leaders will learn practical ways to:

- Maximize Time: Use AI to synthesize information (e.g., co-creating norms) and summarize meeting notes for immediate follow-up.

- Streamline Meetings: Implement the role of an "AI Agent" and use AI tools to instantly align research with your team's goals.

- Simplify Communication: Use AI to draft communication for key stakeholder groups, ensuring clarity and consistency.

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Connected Resource:
Key Issue and Tier 2 Supports - Template
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H80q-7TxlvRaa260OCTsiiEan_pwlvBsjIb3J9Oh4gQ/view

Organizer to utilize during Collaborative Team Meetings to note key issues and then collect practices and strategies to consider at the classroom level.

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Creators and Guests

Host
Kurtis Hewson
Author/presenter with @jigsaw_learning, learner, teacher, father, husband, son, friend. He/him. Honoured to reside on Treaty 6 territory
Host
Lorna Hewson
Lead Learner and Co-Founder, Jigsaw Learning

What is Building a Culture of Collaboration?

Are you an educational leader or administrator searching for actionable strategies to build effective teams? In the Building a Culture of Collaboration podcast, Jigsaw Learning co-founders Kurtis and Lorna Hewson provide simple, purposeful tips to help you tackle meeting frustration, disengagement, and unproductive teamwork. This is your essential resource for advancing school improvement and collective efficacy.

You will find practical ideas for mastering effective meetings, where you learn the structures, roles, and agendas required to ensure your team meetings (PLCs, staff, student support) are focused and drive action. You'll discover how to shift your organization's mindset from isolated practice to powerful, shared responsibility for ALL students—this is key to teamwork and collaboration. Finally, you'll gain the leadership strategies needed to intentionally build a robust and sustainable culture that maximizes collective capacity and student success. We also talk with thought leaders outside of education, to grow our understanding of effective collaboration and teamwork.

Subscribe today to master the art of intentional collaboration and take your leadership to the next level!