This document discusses collaborative leadership in the classroom, school, and community. It defines collaborative leadership as a constructive process based on community partnership and multiple perspectives, where shared visions are built together and success is celebrated collectively. The document outlines the qualities of collaborative leaders and distinguishes collaboration from mere cooperation. It provides examples of how collaborative leadership can be applied through school initiatives and community projects to increase student achievement and promote wellness.

1. Collaborative Leadership
in the classroom, school
and the
community
June 29, 2012
Asia Society PGL
Matt Nink
mnink@gyli.org

2. Collaborative Leadership in
Classroom, School and Community
Session Agenda:
 Decade Stories
 Definition and components of Collaborative Leadership
 7 Qualities of the Collaborative leader
 Collaboration vs. Cooperation
 Activities and reflection
 Why Collaborative Leadership is a lever for the 21st Century
 Closing

3. Story of Decades
What did you learn about
leadership each decade?
My
collaborator's
story of
Decades
My story of Decades

4. The GYLI Story

5. My collaborator’s
Organizational story

6. GYLI Definition of Collaborative
Leadership
Co-learning and co-creating based on
community, partnership, and input from all
stakeholders. It is a constructive process based
on multiple perspective thinking and acting
where shared visions are built in a common
space, and success is celebrated together.

7. 7 Qualities of the Collaborative Leader
1. Builds a Shared Vision
2. Shares Common Space
3. Engages in multi-perspective thinking and action
4. Empowers others and allows others to empower
themselves
5. Behaves ethically to influence others positively
6. Doesn’t collaborate to turn out the lights
7. Celebrates successful collaborations

8. Cooperation vs Collaboration
Cooperation:
Joint action, commonality,
concurrence,
joining of hands,
common effort,
common enterprise or endeavor
• Issue-based
• Short Term
• Low stakes
• Easily begun and ended

9. Cooperation vs Collaboration
Collaboration:
Concur, harmonize, partner,
pull together, hold together,
hang together, keep together,
stand shoulder-to-shoulder
• Values-based
• Long term
• High stakes
• More difficult to start and end

10. PARTNER ACTIVITY
Shared Vision
Memory Drawing
Facilitated by collaborator

13. Global Youth Leadership Institute
Mission: Global Youth Leadership Institute delivers transformative educational
programs that foster global pluralism, collaborative leadership, and environmental care and
that help students and teachers become fully engaged citizens of the world.
Integrated Themes
 Collaborative Leadership Process
 Multi-cultural Identity
 Environmental Sustainability
 Religious Pluralism
Fun With a Purpose

14. Goals of GYLI Programs
 Impact participants’:
 Attitudes and Perspectives
 Knowledge and Skills
 Access to leadership opportunities
 We Engage in:
 Experiential Learning
 Integrated transfer of the experience back to home school and
community through COLLABORATION

15. Leader Learning Plans
Collaboration in Action
 What projects do students and teachers initiate as a
result of GYLI programs?
 4 Parts
 Vision
 Goals
 Strategy
 Resources
 How do we affect the daily life of participants as
professionals or students?

16. Collaborative Leadership in the
Classroom
 Positive community
 Student choice
 Shared inquiry
 Flipping traditional student/teacher roles
 Students are the EXPERTS on their own stories
 Teachers are the NOVICES on youth experience of their own stories

17. Leader Learning Plans—examples of
school and community collaboration
 Composting at John Burroughs  Hispanic Outreach Program
School  Popular Activism Club
 Recycling at Pius XI High School  Peers with a Cause
 Community Involvement  Breathe Easy Chicago
Competition
 Harborside Sustainable
 Mouth Disease School Awareness
Growth
 Funding for Costa Rican
 Supporting Marginalized Students
Homestays
 Englewood Cleanup Initiative
 Reducing Hunger in the
Milwaukee Community  Fighting the Terror of Intolerance

18. Harborside Sustainable Growth
 Student and Adult planned and led
 Multi-stage, multi-age programing
 Environmental sustainability
 Community building
 Increasing student learning and
achievement
 Classroom sets of bikes
 Raised bed gardens
 HS students teaching MS and LS students about organic farming
and nutrition
 Promote a community of wholeness and wellness

19. OUTCOMES of
GYLI Collaboration—the DELIVERABLES
 Confidence and agency
 Communicate and share work across lines
 Age, gender, sexual orientation, schools, regions, race, religions,
 Increase student achievement
 Promote and sustain the school
 Emotional connections for students and parents
 Increase funding opportunities
 Promote a community of wholeness and wellness
 Understand one’s own cultural identity as a basis for action
 Engage and act from strength in diversity

20. OUTCOMES of Collaboration
How Does Collaboration work in my
partner’s organization and
community?

21. Thank you!
Questions?
mnink@gyli.org