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The challenge video raised multiple issues related to trust in schools. While trust is one of those qualities that we all know something about and yet rarely are we called upon to explain or describe what we think it means. Please take a few minutes to capture your thoughts about trust at your school in the space below. The questions below are provided are to help stimulate your thinking. Feel free to focus on answering these questions or to write in direct response to the challenge of trust at your school.

1. If you had to explain trust to someone who had never heard the word before, what would you say?
2. Think of a time when you trusted a colleague and you felt trusted by a colleague. What were the conditions that supported this experience?
3. How would you characterize the trust level in your school? (Think about trust between teachers, between teachers and administrators, between teachers and para-educators, between teachers and parents, between teachers and students, etc)
4. What contributes to trust in a school? How do you build trust?
5. What breaks trust down in a school? How do you turn things around when trust starts to break down?

• Trust
• Challenge Cycle
  • Challenge
  • Initial Thoughts
  • Interactions
  • Revised Thoughts
  • Group Work
  • Moving Forward
• Activities
  • Role and Responsibilities
  • My Job/Your Job
  • Roles and Decisions
  • Core Values
  • Writing a mission
  • Writing a vision
  • Shared understanding
  • Trust agreements
  • The Paseo or circles of identity
• Resources
  • trust in schools
  • 4 Elements of trust
  • Professional trust
  • School mindfulness
  • Social cohesion
  • Social Interdependence
  • Trust in Schools
  • Understanding Limits in relationships
  • Relational trust
  • Annotated bibliography-trust