Strategy Harvest

Find the Fiction Line Up Jot Thoughts Cycle of Learning ThinkWriteRoundRobin Stick to your Beliefs 5 Whys Gallery Walk True/False World Caf 4 Corners Checkerboard StandUp HandUp PairUp ThinkTime Talking Chips Love it/Leave it/Lose it Co-constructing Criteria Strip & Sort Spin the Board

Find the Fiction

Participants write three statements and read them to teammates. Teammates try to find which of the three statements is the fiction.

Statement 1

Statement 2

Statement 3

Beliefs
Think-Write-RoundRobin
Individually reflect and record your beliefs about curriculum, instruction , and assessment (3-5 minutes).
Your prompt is

I believe
Person who was up the earliest time begins sharing one of their beliefs Other teammates record statements that are different than those on their own papers. Sharing moves in clockwise direction with participants sharing new belief statements only.

Stick to your Beliefs

One belief sheet is put in the middle Each person is given 3 stickers Silently each person stickers their top 3 beliefs You now have generated a list of your team beliefs As you move on in your work make sure that your work is guided by those beliefs

5 Why Protocol
Pattern Statement: The CIA initiative was created to support curriculum, instruction and assessment in our secondary school.

Why: _______________________________________

Why?

Why?

Why?

Why?

5 Why Gallery Walk

Gallery Walk: Using the tape provided, participants post their work on the wall. Participants circle the room, viewing the other participants/groups work.

As participants circle, they look for patterns and trends, similarities and differences.
Upon returning to their table, participants share observations with their group.

JotThoughts & RoundRobin

JOT THOUGHTS: Facilitator provides prompt or question for participants. Participants have 1 minute: Individually record the questions/answers/observations they have on a post-it 1 item per post-it. ROUND ROBIN: In their groups, participants take turns sharing their JotThoughts. The person with the next birthday in the group will start. If participants have any duplicate items, stack them together to avoid repetition.

True or False
Facilitator posts TRUE/FALSE signs in the room. Facilitator posts or reads out a statement to participants, instructing them to turn the appropriate direction. Participants:
If you believe the statement is true turn to your left. If you believe the statement is false turn to the right.

World Cafe
Teams disperse evenly amongst the tables. Everyone moves except one anchor at each table.
Round 1 = 5 minutes Anchor at the table begins by sharing their groups work in response to a question/prompt provided by the facilitator. Other participants at table respond and share their connections, ask questions.

Round 2 = 5 minutes Process is repeated with a new question or prompt.

Round 3 = 5 minutes Process is repeated a final time with a new question or prompt. Teams return to their group to debrief.

4 Corners
Facilitator posts chosen images in each of the four corners. Facilitator provides a stem statement: If _________ was a _______
(e.g. If adult learning was a beverage, then it would be a)

Structure: Participants get up and move to their chosen corner. In their corner group, participants share their reasons for choosing their corner to complete the stem.

Checkerboard
Find a checkerboard quote that you connect with.

Participate in a StandUp-HandUpPairUp.
StandUp-HandUp-PairUp: Participants stand up, put their hands up, and quickly find a partner with whom to share or discuss

Talking Chips
Participants each receive a specific number of talking chips. Each time a participant contributes to the group conversation, they must place one of their chips at the center of the table until they are out of talking chips.
Statement 1 Statement 2 Statement 3

Consensus Structures
Strategy: Round Table Consensus
Each member of the group verbally shares a their contribution with the group. The entire group must approve with a thumbs-up before the criterion is recorded or accepted.

Strategy: Love it, Leave it, Lose it

Participants silently reflect on their groups work. Participants record what they love, what they would modify, and what they would eliminate. Participants can share these with the group using a structure like RoundRobin or Talking Chips. Love it Leave it, but edit Lose it

Co-constructing Criteria
Participants individually record the criteria for the given topic on the strips of paper provided.
Facilitators may use structures like RoundRobin and consensus structures like RoundTable Consensus or Love it, Leave it, Lose it to ensure all voices are heard as participants share their criteria.

Strip and Sort

Look at the brainstormed criteria and begin to categorize like criterion Determine if there are any missing items and add additional strips where necessary
Determine the big ideas for each category

Spin the board

On a large whiteboard or a piece of chart paper, participants record their responses to a prompt or question. Participants spin board. They will spend 2 min reading & reacting. Try to reserve judgment. Date #1: 2 mins Date #2: 2 mins Date #3: 2 mins Add comments,questions, feedback, suggestions, etc.

Activate 4 Corners Find the Fiction Line Up Jot Thoughts

Acquire

Apply

Reflect

Jot Thoughts

Cycle of Learning

Think Write Round Robin

Stick to Your Beliefs

Think Write Round Robin

Stick to Your Beliefs

Think Write Round Robin

Gallery Walk

Gallery Walk Spin the Board Co-Constructing Criteria/Strip and Sort Spin the Board Co-Constructing Criteria/Strip and Sort Checkerboard

Gallery Walk Spin the Board

Checkerboard True/False

Checkerboard True/False World Cafe

World Cafe 5 Whys

5 Whys