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key 2 INTRODUCTION | TOOLS | RESOURCES | SUCCESS STORIES
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  COMMUNICATIONS STYLE INVENTORY PROCESS :: A PROCESS FOR REMOVING BARRIERS
CURRENT REALITY/DESIRED REALITY :: GROUP PROBLEM SOLVING MODELS
EIGHT PLANNING STEPS FOR CONTINUOUS REFINEMENT
KEY 2 PROCESS TOOLS - A PROCESS FOR REMOVING BARRIERS
  1. Convene workgroups of stakeholders — students, teachers, education support professionals, administrators, parents, community members.

    1. Stakeholder groups brainstorm forces or conditions that could or do drive (encourage, assist) open, nonthreatening communications in the school community between:

      1. School board and administration
      2. School employees and administration
      3. School administration and others (parents, students, community)
      4. Teachers and others

    2. Stakeholder groups brainstorm forces or conditions that could or do provide barriers or resistance to maintenance of nonthreatening communications in the school community between:

      1. School board and administration
      2. School employees and administration
      3. School administration and others (parents, students, community)
      4. Teachers and others

    3. Stakeholder groups discuss the lists they have brainstormed and eliminate those items that do not now (and are not likely to in the future) play a significant role in driving or restraining open, nonthreatening communications in the school community. (Use Current Reality/Desired Reality.)

  2. Put together cross-stakeholder group work teams (teams including one or more representatives of each stakeholder group you have involved in the process).

    1. Cross-stakeholder group work teams examine and discuss the stakeholder work group generated lists of driving forces that could support open nonthreatening communications within the school community.

    2. Cross-stakeholder groups draw up a list pairing forces that could drive open, nonthreatening communications with counterpart or related forces that tend to counteract each driving force and in that way restrain such open, nonthreatening communications.
 

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