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Angelica Burns
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There are many areas that collaboration works effectively in. Collaboration exists
school district also breaks down into: within a school, between colleagues or
professionals, between staff and students, and lastly, between students. The necessity
their school administrators, by the school system, and by the community. It involves
in your city, town, or community will help to ensure that the rules and regulations are
Protection Agency (2015) further backs the idea of residents of cities and towns to work
together when saying, “Engage all members of the community to plan for the future.
Engage residents, business owners, and other stakeholders to develop a vision for the
community’s desires, needs, and goals and generates public support that can maintain
momentum for implementing changes through election cycles and city staff turnover” (p
i).
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necessary thing to have or use within a school system. Whether it be in the school
collaboration within school districts, in all aspects, is vital. Collaboration within a school,
between colleagues or professionals, between staff and students, and even just,
successfully, as often times each school has some sort of department team or co-
teaching that goes along within classrooms. To be able to do this, staff need to be able
to work together for their students, and put whatever differences they may have, aside.
To work as a team in the field of education is a necessity as teachers all think differently
and teach differently. As such, collaboration amongst teachers and educators of all
kinds can lead to the sharing of ideas, experiences, expertise, and practices. Ostovar-
professionals and educators when saying, “They need to cooperate with each other to
develop themselves professionally. While traditionally they waited for the educator to
bombard them with externally imposed methods and techniques through crash teacher
training courses, teacher now collaborate and learn from each other’s experience” (pp
199).
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spend an average of 6-8 hours at school, it is more likely that they will receive a proper
education, if they get along and work alongside their teachers. This means, without
giving their teachers a hard time or repeating offensive or negative behaviors every day.
In my younger years of education, I remember that there were some teachers that I
didn’t like. But, I realized, at a very young age, that they are doing the best that they can
to teach me everything in a way that I can understand. My teachers were doing that for
myself, as well as my 10+ other classmates, every day. I knew that Ii needed to be a
part of that when I “got older”. At a young age, I decided that I was going to be a teacher
when I grew up. I loved everything about school, and was the girl that would go to
school all day, go home and do all of my homework, and then play school with all of my
stuffed animals.
At a very young age, I knew that I would be a part of this wonderful rewarding
thing called education when I grew up. Shaw (2016) says, “Planning and organizing is
relatively straightforward and can be fun, but sustainable delivery through the ups and
downs, and over time, is the real challenge. Proactivity, tenacity, and resilience are
crucial in building a sustainable business – working hard and pushing through the
setbacks is what moves things forward over time. And keep on learning because
without that the business will stagnate, and there will be other dynamic start-ups ready
to take your place” (pp 359). To me, the idea of a “business” can also be substituted for
generation, carries with them is the fact that they come from a divorced family or a
broken home. It is of the highest significance that the teachers and school staff to be on
the students’ side, showing that they care for and support the student, on a daily basis.
Coming from a family that has a single-parent household, with my mom raising me by
me feel extra special and offering me as much support and love as they possibly could.
school.
divorced parents.
because it not only teaches teamwork but social skills, as well as acceptance without
judgement. A lot of students struggle with peer interactions and not judging their peers
before they get to know them. T and Johnson (2009) go along with my thoughts when
and caring for each other no matter what their initial impressions of and attitudes toward
each other were when they started. They also like the teacher more and perceive the
teacher as being more supportive and accepting academically and personally” (p 7).
School
be overstressed. It is critical that a child’s caregivers are open and honest with the
school, and that there is a positive relationship. When there is an open relationship,
progress, strengths, and weaknesses can be discussed. After all, a school’s role is
always to promote and support whatever is in the student’s best interest. It’s our law,
and our code of honor. With parents or caregivers on board, this is easier to
accomplish. Skouteris, Watson, and Lum (2012) corroborates the importance of parent
and school collaboration or communication when they say, “Through the use of school–
home morning messages, parents and teachers communicated more about their child’s
reading and writing, building more supportive relationships between the school and the
young life, it is crucial that the school, professionals, parents, and children work
amongst parents, or a student’s caregivers, and the child's school when saying, “To
ensure that every child has the best possible chance of adjusting successfully to formal
schooling, a wider support system needs to be put into place, with the teaching
It is for all of these reasons that collaboration is essential to all humans, alike.
Collaboration goes hand in hand with the famous Non-Discrimination Policy, which is
collaboration can happen anywhere, at any time, and between anyone. Tufts University
(2019) defines their non-discrimination policy as, “Tufts prohibits discrimination against
and harassment of any employee or any applicant for employment because of race,
color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender
identity and expression, veteran status or any other characteristic protected under
Working together not only benefits multiple people as well as various disciplines,
but also builds a sense of mutual trust. I feel as the most beneficial characteristic of
collaboration is trust. I feel this way because there needs to be a trust between all
parties involved so that everyone can work together and have success at the end of
every day. I believe that there needs to be trust within the teachers and the
administration, the teachers and the other teachers that they work with (whether it be
between grade levels, specialists, or even vocational teachers), but most importantly
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trust between the teachers and their students. Marlow, Kyed, and Connors (2005)
support my thoughts by saying, “While collegiality and collaborations are indeed key
major component of trust is the responsibility to learn what is important to others and to
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Cities Can Use Local Assets to Rebuild Their Economies: Lessons From
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