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Time together is time well-spent only when educators know how to collaborate

By Learning Forward
April 2013
Raise your hand if you’ve been in a workshop that included either of the following movie clips to illustrate what it means to really collaborate: the barn-raising scene in Witness or the scene in Apollo 13 where Ed Harris dumps a box of miscellaneous parts on a table and tells a team to use those parts to solve a complex problem. There’s a reason many of you are familiar with these clips. Those are great scenes to lead into discussions about bringing together varied perspectives in high-stakes situations to solve pressing problems. Such clips help us understand why collaboration is absolutely critical and, at times, lifesaving. But I wonder what clips we’d use to illustrate how those teams got to that point. What made the

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Tracy Crow

Tracy Crow ([email protected]) is director of communications for Learning Forward.


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