Being a part of a collaborative culture helped to take my first year from being a complete, disorganized disaster to a year of successful learning for both the children and me.  I felt the mentoring process was a form of collaborative culture.

Scheduling is so hard! Love having ideas! I loved when we went to Chicago and saw how they all took times to help with intervention times and every team was able to meet to help all children from this! 

I agree with Todd here. We have done it both ways and we went to teach another school about PLC's where they would be assigning groups. I do not think they would find as much joy and success that way as DuFour says in his book having a choice is key!