Collaboration is supremely easier when it is embedded in the school culture and you don’t have to ‘fight it’. I have been in schools where many teachers have a certain unshiftable mindset, where they are their own island and refuse to even entertain the idea of working with others. Other times, collaboration is only a ‘lip service’ to the idea, where it is more so co-operation, rather than collaboration in the true sense of the word…
I feel so tremendously lucky of the school community I am a part of. It is future-forward designed school, with up to 4 classes in each learning hub, that has been designed according to Thornburg’s 4 Spaces, which include the watering hole, the campfire, the cave and life. Our whole school is founded upon collaborative practice by design!