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Apr 2025
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Establishing Effective Key Issues for Co...

Jigsaw Learning
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Effective facilitation is essential when driving powerful instructional change through the collaborative team meeting! 
Facilitating Effective CTMs - https://bit.ly/facilitatectm

In this weeks podcast, Kurtis and Lorna further explore the key issue process and provide some advice when endeavouring to establish more effective and succinct key issues for students to drive the collaborative team meeting.

Connected Resources:

Blog - Shifting to Key Issues - https://www.jigsawlearning.ca/publications/blog-posts/shifting-key-issues 
Interested in seeing the key issue process in action in a collaborative team meeting?  Access further resources and video clips - https://www.jigsawlearning.ca/observing-collaborative-team-meeting
Digging into Key Issues Organizer - https://docs.google.com/document/d/12JbiFMzm2W1OaadadC9W2o_e-PM_jf_BVbYAoAGgQ9o/edit?usp=drive_link 
Blog - Locus of Control - https://www.jigsawlearning.ca/publications/blog-posts/so-what-can-we-control-articulating-our-locus-control 
Collection of Connectivity Key Issues sample - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zmtvsczIdgOK24YWDusCw9crZFTj0JxybyaDEzqtqlY/edit?usp=sharing 
Collection of Literacy Key Issues sample - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hVl2q-Vby0R_ezsayQaeW5ltBhy6uf5pRP2X5ZIzCl0/edit?usp=sharing 

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