Opening: The Kitchen Story (5 minutes)
- Note the value of deliberate chaos, intense collaboration, immediate feedback
- Discuss: "What if our professional learning had the same intensity, trust, and commitment to excellence?"
- Share one word describing typical professional development vs. one word describing transformational learning
- Frame: Moving from polite distance to fierce commitment
The Research Behind Breaking Plates (10 minutes)
- Share overview of collective efficacy research
- Poll: "What percentage of your professional learning builds genuine collective efficacy?"
- Highlight that excellence emerges not from perfection but from structured vulnerability
Unreasonable Hospitality in Professional Learning (15 minutes)
- Explore case studies of radical care in action
Memory Mapping (7 minutes)
- Share a time participants felt genuinely cared for in professional setting
- Identify specific actions that created belonging
- Extract principles for "unreasonable hospitality" in education
- Gather examples and connect to psychological safety research
Breaking Comfortable Patterns (15 minutes)
- Introduce "plate-breaking" metaphor - sometimes destruction precedes reconstruction
Sacred Cows Inventory (10 minutes)
- Identify professional learning traditions that maintain distance
- Select one to "break" and reimagine through lens of collective efficacy
- Create 30-second pitch for alternative approach
- Rapid-fire sharing of "break and build" ideas
From Intensity to Momentum (10 minutes)
- Present framework for channeling educational chaos into collective power
- Map participants' current organizational trust levels (scale)
- Identify one "unreasonable" act of care to implement
- Establish accountability partners
Closing: Breaking Bread Together (5 minutes)
- Return to kitchen metaphor: Transformation requires both breaking through and breaking bread
Analyze how high-performance teams from diverse sectors build collective efficacy through structured vulnerability, radical care, and deliberate practice cycles.
Identify specific barriers to authentic collaboration in their own professional learning contexts and develop strategies to "break the plates" - disrupting comfortable patterns that maintain distance rather than build trust.
Apply the principles of "unreasonable hospitality" to design professional learning experiences that prioritize psychological safety, belonging, and risk-taking as prerequisites for transformation.
Evaluate their current professional learning structures against research on collective efficacy and deliberately developmental organizations to identify gaps and opportunities for building collective power.
Create an action plan for cultivating fierce communities of practice that channel the intensity of educational work into collective momentum, including specific protocols for failing forward together.
Connect the relationship between adult learning conditions and student outcomes, articulating how professional learning that builds educator expertise and belonging directly transforms classroom practice.
https://www.ascd.org/books/still-learning
https://ascd.org/blogs/how-to-make-school-professional-cultures-more-human-centered
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