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"High-performance collaboration requires training and the development of key personal skills. For teachers, two initial steps will help foster this process. First, reframe the conversation by using the terminology of teams rather than group work. Think of your favorite sports team and now call them a group. Feel the difference? Teams focus on accountability and commitment; they form for a purpose and operate through norms and shared expectations."

"The country's strongest innovators embrace creativity, play, and collaboration -- values that also inform their physical spaces."

Essential questions can spark collaboration among teachers and interdisciplinary thinking among students.

" A PLN is a tool that uses social media and technology to collect, communicate, collaborate and create with connected colleagues anywhere at any time. Participating educators, worldwide, make requests and share resources."

Professional Learning Community (PLC). An ongoing process in which educators work collaboratively to achieve better results for the students they serve.

A collaboration of central Ohio school districts, businesses and community groups will give more high-school students a jump-start on college and work skills. Starting this fall, students in several local districts can enroll in career pathway programs that will focus on health care, information technology, robotics and logistics.