Discussion Facilitation Guide

The daily watch parties are divided into three parts:

Start

Share the agenda for the session. Use the “headlines” thinking routine to quickly surface impressions of the day (see page 6 for more information).1

&/OR

Start the Watch Party with a playful icebreaker.

Discussion

Use a thinking routine to discuss the content of the day’s PSC.

Closing

End each session with a final reflection (see daily agendas for more information).

The facilitation guide assumes you have 45 minutes for discussions. If you have more or less time, adjust your agenda accordingly.

And if participants don’t know each other, begin Day 1 with introductions.

1 Thinking routines are a set of questions or a brief sequence of steps to develop and deepen thinking. Each day we suggest a number of such routines that were created for use in the classroom. We have modified these routines for the watch parties and have hyperlinked each so you can read more about them. Consider using the routines in your setting.

(10 MINUTES)