“Very helpful ideas and ways to focus and create meetings that will give results in a positive manner. It gave me a direction of where to go.”

—Yvonne Sandidge, Teacher

“First of all, I want to thank you again for such a carefully thought-out PD. I really appreciate your openness and willingness to share personal experiences as well as the mock meeting. I learned SO much and am excited to use structures for ALL of our PDs.”

—Sharon James, ELA Instructional Support Team

“I appreciated the administrative focus and the 'real world' application and examples.”

—Shelly Wall, Special Service Coordinator

“Very relevant to giving me (principal) tools to expand the use of structures in faculty setting to model what is important.”

—Gayle Korfhage, Teacher

“Today we had our kickoff with our teachers and rolled out the PLC philosophy to our staff embedded with several relationship building activities and numerous structures to allow the teachers to be engaged and to process the information. At the end of the day, my Assistant Principal got several comments from staff that this was the best kickoff they have had and that they loved the engagement and time to process and reflect that the structures provided. Carol L. was right! Cooperative Meetings training has changed the way our school does business. Your training at the Summer Academy was exceptional and I thank you for giving me these tools to engage my staff.”

—Rodney Saunders, Principal

I have just finished the second day of preschool week with my teachers and I could not let another minute go by without sending you an email to let you know that Cooperative Meetings are LIFE CHANGING!! Being a part of your training at Summer Academy and taking my learning back and implementing Cooperative Meetings has been transformational. Even though it has only been two days, the relationship building that my teachers have done with one another is AMAZING. I am hearing laughter, seeing smiles, and watching lightbulbs go on all across the room. It is so cool to see people sitting in cooperative teams with people that they have never worked with before. Even more rewarding is the opportunity to model structures and then lead teachers in reflection about how they can implement these same activities in their own classrooms with their own students.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for giving me the confidence and skills necessary to not only transform my own teaching, but to positively influence the teaching of some already amazing educators who are ready to take it to the next level!

—Melissa Booth, Assistant Principal for Curriculum
  Caloosa Middle School