Individual group members often have divergent viewpoints. Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats is an effective system that fosters collaboration, increases productivity, and increases creativity and innovation. The concept enables protagonists in a discussion to move from the traditional argumentative approach to a collaborative process and fosters a more productive dialog. The document provides an overview of the tool and additional resources to learn more about it.

This guide from the Team Handbook can assist team members with understanding how to have a productive meeting.

This link is to program evaluation standards published by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation.

Groups have a life-cycle of their own. As school improvement is a team effort, district and school Administrators need to support their improvement teams with the tools necessary to be successful. This document offers the concept of creating a "district facilitation team" comprised of trained facilitators to assist the local principals with their improvement teams. The approach is modeled similar practices among larger corporations. The insights presented may be helpful to a school district interested in applying the concept.

This guide reviews the basic elements of the evaluation process. Though written to fulfill program goals of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, it may be useful as a basic primer on evaluation.