Slide 1
	What makes a good team? 

		* Recruit as many dimensions of diversity with as much range in each as you can: 
			Gender, race, religion, ethnicity, age 
			Student - first, second, third, fourth year; post-bacs 
			Faculty - pre-tenure, tenured, pastured; administrative
			Discipline - within divisions, across divisions, administrative offices 
		
		* Operating under the firm belief that everyone has something to contribute to the
		overall success of the group. 
		
		* Food is a powerful mechanism for building community. Alice Waters, Ruth Reichl,
		and Alice Walker among many others make powerful cases for this. 

Slide 2
	How do you encourage actual collaborative learning? 
	
		* Base your work in an open-ended, multi-disciplinary space. 

		* Lead from behind, notion of servent leadership (Thanks Gail Connerley and Andy Clifford). 
			
		* Encourage the development of interdependencies between group members.

		* Everyone is should be given the opportunity to both leader and follow. Find as many
		different intellectual and logistical tasks as you can and spread them around. 
		(You included!)

		* Let go, to some extent, but not when holding a rope with a student on the other end. 

Slide 3
	How is learning different when people work as a team vs working individually?
	
		* The nature of the problems that teams engage tend to provide fertile ground for a
		variety of inquiry methods to be employed, sometimes simultaneously. 

		* Create conditions and then participate, observe, reflect, and adjust. No fully-baked
		plan available at the beginning to follow to a specific place. 
		
		* If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. Teams are 
		inherently about going far, not fast. 
		
Slide 4
	In your view, how do lessons in the classroom transfer to working together as a
	college community?  	

		Teaching and learning are so central to our mission that I believe much of this 
		transfers to our work together as a community. For me the most important components are:
		
			Building a diverse group in as many dimensions as we can imagine and support.
		
			Belief that we all have something to contribute to the whole.
			
			Value of leading from behind.
				
			Fast, alone; far, group. We have a long way to go, we should be a team.
			
			Food. 
		
		Working in the small is a great way to learn skills that transfer to working in the
		large.

Slide 5			
	What some students recently said about a collaborative team-based multi-disciplinary
	learning experience that Emi Smith, Gail Connerley, and I recently lead (Thanks to
	Susanna Tanner and Mark Brim): 

	"Having everyone come from different backgrounds and studies makes for a better team.
	We've seen how we do better when not everybody on a team has a similar background." 
	- Kellan Steele, Mathematics major

	"I am learning ways to collaborate with professors on another level that I really
	haven't experienced before. I am working with them and not just for them. I get to
	bounce ideas off them and together we're adapting and creating."
	- Neil Nicholson, Computer Science major

	"I love being hands-on - the diagnostic process of working things out. 'All right that
	didn't work. Now I'll try this.' Being immersed in something is a great way to learn."
	- Andrew Fishback, Geology major 

	"Earlham is a college with a lot of different majors working together. We experience
	that on campus as we take classes and also in our team members going to Iceland. That
	Earlham background helps us to take in more."
	- Nic Arnold, Computer Science major

	"The outdoor education part of it is also great. We are learning about leadership and
	group management. We're really forming this team together, all the day-to-day things,
	not just tagging along on a professor-led trip."
	- Ai Lena Tomioka, Psychology and Geology double major