Faculty Meeting Plans

Bringing staff together for the opening day of school is critical to setting the tone for the entire school year. This faculty meeting will help inspire your staff to work together this year to learn, grow, and experience positive student outcomes.

In order to create an optimal learning environment for all students, we must define what we as a school community believes that looks, sounds, and feels like for both the adults and students.

Having a set of group guidelines increases productivity at meetings through providing clarity in the behaviors and expectations for the individual and collective team. This meeting plan will help you lead your staff through a collaborative process.

This faculty meeting will support you in guiding staff through an exploration of their own communication preferences and identifying ways to establish clear channels of communication with various stakeholders in the learning community.

This faculty meeting will support the adult community in identifying the procedures students need to know in individual and common spaces throughout the learning environment to focus on the content each teacher specializes in.

When focusing on one area and devoting time and attention to practice, goal setting is one way we can help ourselves to grow. This faculty meeting plan will support you in leading staff members to set SMART goals that they’ll work on over time.

To lead staff in a celebration of their professional successes & accomplishments and highlight how personal growth positively impacts others. Note: This faculty meeting can be used at the end of any period of time - end of year, end of quarter, etc.

Taking time to review the expectations for whole school spaces allows staff to ensure the routines are developmentally appropriate for students and are practiced on a regular basis. This faculty meeting supports the adult community in reviewing the procedures students follow in common spaces throughout the learning environment. 

Gratitude is a powerful emotion and leads to a multitude of positive outcomes. This faculty meeting will support you in expressing gratitude for staff and creating the conditions for a culture of gratitude towards others. 

Each school year presents unique successes and challenges, and ending it smoothly creates a sense of accomplishment and positive impression for the students, staff, and families in the learning community. This faculty meeting will provide staff with inspiration and time to plan activities that will lead students through reflecting on their academic and social emotional growth and build student hope for the future.

Optimal learning environments are best created by teachers that have strong social emotional learning skills and regularly practice self-care. This faculty meeting will support staff in creating good habits to build a strong foundation for SELf-care throughout the year so they are able to feel like their best self at work every day.

Self-care is taking action to preserve or improve our personal health, so self-care will, and should, look different for each individual - especially if we live our lives according to our values. This faculty meeting plan will support you in leading staff through exercises to identify activities that align with their values to replenish their personal and professional self.

In order for educators to best serve students, they must be able to recognize and manage compassion fatigue effectively. In this faculty meeting, staff will participate in activities that foster a supportive school culture that promotes resilience and well-being. In doing so, you’ll cultivate a school environment where educators feel empowered, supported, and equipped to create a positive impact on student learning and well-being.