Our Best Tips on Collaborating with Your Teacher Team: A Conversation with Sara Marye

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I am so excited about today’s episode because I’m sitting down with my good friend Sara Marye. We’re having a collaborative conversation talking about all things teams: team dynamics, team planning, and how to get the most out of working with your teacher team. 

Sara Marye is a great friend of mine, who is the voice behind The Stellar Teacher Podcast. We have a long history starting when we were on the same team, two different times, teaching both 2nd and 4th grade. Plus, we started our Teachers Pay Teachers stores at the same time, and have even collaborated on our own businesses, so we found it perfect to provide some tips and strategies on the best ways to collaborate with your teacher team! 

One of the best parts about working on a team is the ability to collaborate, and not only share ideas, but share the workload. Nevertheless, working together can be challenging with all the different personalities, strengths, and weaknesses. We discuss how to use everyone’s differences to your advantage, and how to navigate a funk between your team members. 

There are so many benefits from working on a team, such as keeping your stress levels down, enjoyment and fun, and how collaboration is a tool for student success. Not on a team? No worries! We provide strategies that will help you create and build your own teacher community.

Sara and I get honest about our own struggles, triumphs, and experiences working with various teams in hopes to provide you with more practical tips and strategies to increase effectiveness and fun within your own team. No matter your team dynamics, this episode will encourage you to improve your collaboration and classroom culture today. Remember, no team is perfect, but every team has something to offer and ways to be successful!

In this episode on collaborating with your team team, we discuss:

• Why working with a team increases student success
• Benefits to identifying individual strengths, weaknesses, and personality traits
• Finding and building your teacher community
• Practical tips and suggestions to increase effectiveness and fun within your teacher team

Connect with Sara:

• Check out her Website
• Listen to her podcast, Stellar Teacher Podcast
• Head to her TpT Store
• Follow her on Instagram

Connect with Megan:

• Check out my TpT Store
• Subscribe to my E-mail list
• Instagram Posts
• Blog Posts
• Facebook Posts
• Watch my YouTube channel 

About The Literacy Dive Podcast:

Do you find yourself seeking new ideas when it comes to literacy instruction in elementary classrooms? The Literacy Dive Podcast was created to offer actionable steps and to share information for teachers, like you, who are always looking to improve their craft! ELA is our jam and we are excited to dive into all things reading and writing with you!

Your host, Megan Polk, is the creator and owner behind The Literacy Dive and loves to support students and their teachers with curriculum, literacy instruction, best practices, and engaging literacy activities.

Dive in with us every Monday for a new episode from Megan! She, and her guests, will chat about various literacy topics and will bring you tips and tricks that can easily be implemented in your classrooms. You can tune in wherever you get your podcasts! Listen to The Literacy Dive Podcast on platforms like Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, Google, and more! If you find value from listening to this podcast, please rate this show, leave a review, and follow!

You can tune in wherever you get your podcasts! Listen to The Literacy Dive Podcast on platforms like Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, Google, and more! If you find value from listening to this podcast, please rate this show, leave a review, and follow!