Norms for Working Together

Norms serve as an important vehicle to support the cultural shifts within your team or school from one in which teachers work in isolation, making all instructional decisions independently, to one in which teams work not just collaboratively but interdependently. In this collaborative culture, teachers must put aside their personal preferences and assumptions for the good of the whole team.

Team norms are agreed-on day-to-day behaviors--collective commitments--that the team will follow in order to work purposefully and productively.
(Bailey & Jakicic, 2012, p. 7)