Meeting+Structure

The Literacy Team meeting structures provide opportunities for raising, discussing and negotiating ideas/issues, and for negotiating the pragmatics of implementing the Literacy Strategy.
 * Literacy Team Meeting Structure 2011 **

** Team meetings **
Team meetings approximately monthly (to every 6 weeks). Purpose: to communicate about operational and strategic matters that arising from within the literacy team and from C&I, CEOM or schools. Operational decisions may be made at this meeting. Strategic decisions are discussed at this meeting.

**PLT meetings**
For the Literacy Team, held in the last week of each term, 4 times per year. Purpose: to learn together and to deepen our understandings about the key concepts that we work with every day. Small groups of 3 will plan the process for these days. The areas for learning will be collaboratively decided at the beginning of the year.

**JGH meetings**
JGH EOs, held first week of each term. Purpose: to build coherence and continuity across PL by creating shared understandings about implementation of LCS Literacy Strategy. This meeting connects the ideas/concepts of the PLT with the practical implementation of PL planning meetings across the JGH group.

**TL and SPO meetings**
SPO and TL every Monday from 8.30 to 9.30. Purpose: to deal with operational matters. Agendas/running sheets for PL are to be tabled at Monday morning meetings. Operational decisions are made at this meeting.

**TL and SPO PL meetings**
Based on Monday morning PL ‘check’ where required further discussion will be timetabled for Tuesday PL leaders meetings. Purpose: to ensure professional quality, Literacy Strategy coherence and CEOM C&I alignment and to support each other in performance management/team member issues. Operational and strategic decisions are made at this meeting.

**TL and SPO Team planning meeting**
SPO & TL 1 or 2 weeks prior to team meetings. Purpose: to deal with strategic matters including issues to be brought to or from the team. Inter-team work group matters communicated in this meeting. Where, an EO is on such a group, she will attend prior to and post inter-team meetings. Operational and strategic decisions concerning the team and implementation of the Literacy Strategy (and inter-team considerations/priorities) are discussed and may be made at this meeting.

**TL and Manager meeting**
TL meets with Manager weekly. Purpose: communication management, professional quality, Literacy Strategy coherence and CEOM C&I alignment, team management and, performance management. Operational and strategic decisions concerning the team, SPOs, Literacy Strategy implementation in the context of LCS: A Sacred Landscape are discussed and made at this meeting.