Collaboration to Co-Creating - Creates School Teachers

In the majority of schools today there is time set aside for teachers to collaborate. How effective this time is used, depends on the process or design that leaders have set up. So, how effective is your collaboration? What product(s) are coming out of your collaboration time? Should collaboration be re-branded as co-creating time? If so, how do you make this change?

Kaleb Rashad discussed the need to move from collaboration to co-creating, in episode 3 of IMMOOC. How do we co-create? How do you lay a foundation for co-creating?


It starts by building a culture that is human centered design. People need to be empowered and inspired in order to be innovative, this can only happen after trust relationships are built. How are you creating an innovative culture? Have you built a culture where people feel that they can take risks? Do people ask for permission or guidance? (Katie Martin)

Once trust relationships are built and an innovative culture has developed, collaboration can move to co-creation. When teachers begin to co-create, they become school teachers vs. classroom teachers. They begin to work together to create learning experiences that benefit all students in the school not just the students in their classroom.

What are teachers getting out of their collaboration time? Do they feel empowered when they leave or was it a waste of their time? How can you begin to move your culture of collaboration to an innovative culture where teachers are co-creating?