Build trusting relationships among workgroup participants through structured facilitation¶

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Description¶

The R15CC team deliberately cultivated meaningful and trusting relationships among participants as "an essential foundation for authentically sharing opinions and experiences." Practices included purposefully assigning participants to small-group breakout sessions, strategically using icebreakers, and using outside facilitators to mitigate positional power, so participants could challenge each other's ideas and ask hard questions about past and current practices.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

Attention to the diversity of participants' roles and backgrounds

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

State and local education agency participants in collaborative design work

Target Learning Goals¶

Enabling open sharing of opinions and critical examination of agency practices

Examples¶

Key Sources¶

Co-Creating a Menu of More Rigorous Interventions to Drive Nevada School Improvement. (2024). Region 15 Comprehensive Center at WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED662043

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`title`	`Build trusting relationships among workgroup participants through structured facilitation`
`description`	`The R15CC team deliberately cultivated meaningful and trusting relationships among participants as "an essential foundation for authentically sharing opinions and experiences." Practices included purposefully assignin...`
`status`	`review`
`generated`	by `process:wiki-ingest` on `2026-10-09`
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