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Allow for teams and small groups, create expectations (contract) and stick to it, create a solid culture at the start of the year.

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Teachers and students learn that some of the best work comes from working together.  When brainstorming and bouncing the ideas off of each other creates a richer understanding from learning from each other.  They also need to really listen to each other and learn to share "the load" of the complete project.

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Using planning time efficiently, working together to co-teach concepts and big ideas, using protocols like "critical friends" to modify and refine lessons.

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Setting norms and adapting those norms based on the group, project and tasks using student/team contracts makes it "data" based and less vulnerable to personal interpretation

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Collaborative teachers gives students a model. When teachers collaborate, we tap into each other's strengths, we learn to take criticism and constructive feedback, we have a new view point on the way students interpret what we've asked them to do.

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PBL leads to deeper learning. The rigor of the common core standards requires students to understand the process behind their learning, PBL allows students to go to this deeper level.

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Teachers and students learn from working together by each bringing their own expertise to come together and develop team expertise.

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We can model collaboration and respect by teaching together, explicitly explaining our process.

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Topic of PBL can span multiple common core standards across disciplines with one assignment/pbl.

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The Common Core stresses both skills and content, PBL's addresses both as well.  Skills and content need to be intertwined and PBLs do that

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2. How do teachers and students learn from being in teams?

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2. How do teachers and students learn from being in teams?

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3. How can teachers create collaborative classrooms?

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3. How can teachers create collaborative classrooms?