Striving for a "Mutually Beneficial" Relationship Framework
This year, our District Leadership Team is studying the work of Bill Daggett and his "System for Effective Instruction" book. Last month, I had the privilege of partnering with two others to present his fifth chapter, which focuses on relationships...and I use the word "privilege" because out of the many great things in this book, I find Daggett's words in this chapter to be among his most powerful. Daggett proposes a "relationship framework," which could be considered a "rubric" for relationship success. For instance, he has a relationship framework for staff that begins with a level of "isolation" where staff members perform their work in "significant isolation from other staff" and ranges to the highest levels of "sustained" and "mutually beneficial" where staff members incorporate new staff members "seamlessly" and are "consistently mindful of school goals." He also has relatio...