“Ichi-go ichi-e”- Japanese for “one meeting, one moment in your life that will never happen again”Īll meetings should be organized around a desired outcome…or else the meaning will get diluted with process “Tightness of fit”- when an organizer does something to increase cohesion (e.g., naming a group with multiple adjectives) Studies show that audiences disproportionately remember the first 5 percent, the last 5 percent, and a climactic moment of a talk.Ī 2001 Johns Hopkins study found that when members of a medical team introduced themselves and shared concerns ahead of time, the likelihood of complications and deaths fell by 35 percent. What if school administrative meetings were called SIS meetings: Share Out / Inform / Solve? What if every meeting began with a two minute share out from each person? What if we chose student learning locations based on function and density (students per square foot)? What if faculty meetings rotated locations depending on purpose? What if all meetings had a purpose statement or explicit desired outcomes? What if every meeting with parents was titled with “Partnership” and the stated outcome was to support the child? What is the right frequency for gathering together as a whole school? What is the purpose of Parent/Teacher Conferences?
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