TIES Lessons for All: 5-15-45

Plan to Meet with Your Colleague

Need a little help kicking off your collaboration? Even small steps like crafting an email or setting an agenda can take time.

These templates are intended to support the communication between educators who are collaborating to meet the needs of all students. There are several templates to choose from - please modify them to meet your needs or skip them and use your own!

Sample text to first connect with your new collaborative partner. Please modify to fit your needs:

Dear (colleague),

I look forward to collaborating with you to make our lessons more inclusive for all of our students. Here are our first steps:

We need to find a time to meet (either for 5 minutes, 15 minutes, or 45 minutes).
Here is the TIES Center protocol we can use (choose based on time available: 5 minute meeting time, 15 minute meeting time, or 45 minute time).

Here are some times that work for me:

Do any of those work for you?

Thank you,

Sample follow-up text to set up a meeting with an existing collaborative partner. Please modify to fit your needs:

Dear (colleague),

I look forward to collaborating with you to make our lessons more inclusive for all of our students. I pulled together some resources for our meeting (add link or attachment) on XXX date at XXX time:

An agenda to keep us on track (Setting Team Rules).
A TIES Center protocol (choose based on time available: 5 minute meeting time, 15 minute meeting time, or 45 minute time).
This list of inclusive strategies to spark our thinking.

Please add your input. I look forward to working with you.

Thank you,