{"podcast":{"title":"Building a Culture of Collaboration","slug":"building-a-culture-of-collaboration-6015835","podcast_index_feed_id":6015835,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/building-a-culture-of-collaboration-d75e6b68-8661-465c-8f60-84e12d3f820d","website_url":"https://bcc.bepodcast.network","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/j4yEk3JDYsWcpJaZBJR5fc-_VnyLEOT1oKO-Tbrtwps/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xYjk2/NTkxZGFiNjIxOTU0/NGZiMTAwOGFjNmI5/ZjUyMy5wbmc.jpg","author":"Jigsaw Learning","episode_count":160,"summary":"Are you an educational leader or administrator searching for actionable strategies to build effective teams? In the Building a Culture of Collaboration podcast, Jigsaw Learning co-founders Kurtis and Lorna Hewson provide simple, purposeful tips to help you tackle meeting frustration, disengagement, and unproductive teamwork. This is your essential resource for advancing school improvement and collective efficacy. You will find practical ideas for mastering effective meetings, where you learn the structures, roles, and agendas required to ensure your team meetings (PLCs, staff, student support) are focused and drive action. You'll discover how to shift your organization's mindset from isolated practice to powerful, shared responsibility for ALL students—this is key to teamwork and collaboration. Finally, you'll gain the leadership strategies needed to intentionally build a robust and sustainable culture that maximizes collective capacity and student success. We also talk with thought leaders outside of education, to grow our understanding of effective collaboration and teamwork. Subscribe today to master the art of intentional collaboration and take your leadership to the next leve…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-11T16:19:41.508185+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/building-a-culture-of-collaboration-6015835"},"episode":{"title":"Building Collaborative Cultures That Drive Literacy Success with Mark Onuscheck and Jeanne Spiller - Ep 86","slug":"building-collaborative-cultures-that-drive-literacy-success-with-mark-onuscheck-and-jeanne-spiller-ep-86","published_at":"2026-05-05T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/building-a-culture-of-collaboration-6015835/building-collaborative-cultures-that-drive-literacy-success-with-mark-onuscheck-and-jeanne-spiller-ep-86","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/building-a-culture-of-collaboration-6015835","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/ced416ce","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/ced416ce/61fb23af.mp3","summary":"In this replay episode of Building a Culture of Collaboration, Lorna and Kurtis are joined by Jeanne Spiller and Mark Onuscheck, two educational leaders, authors and consultants and co-editors of a number of PLC at Work titles. They discuss how to build a highly intentional and focused culture of collaboration, with a direct emphasis on how that culture can have a significant impact on literacy success for learners! If you've enjoyed this episode, we'd love to have you as a subscriber! You'll get more conversations about literacy, as well as deeper focus on what it means to be building a strong culture of collaboration for your organization. You can also learn more about the other BE Podcast Network shows at https://bepodcast.network and learn more about Reading Is Fundamental at www.rif.org --------- Connect with Jeanne Spiller Email jeannespiller33@gmail.com X @jeeneemarie LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanne-spiller-1aa292255/ Connect with Mark Onuscheck Email monuscheck@gmail.com Connect with Kurtis Hewson Email kurtis.hewson@jigsawlearning.ca X @hewsonk27 LinkedIn https://ca.linkedin.com/in/kurtishewson Connect with Lorna Hewson Email lorna.hewson@jigsawlearning.ca X @LornaHewson Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorna-hewson-713a59104 --------- Related Resources Podcast: Real Talk with Jeanne and Matt (Spotify, Apple Podcasts) - https://www.realtalkwithjeanneandmatt.com/ A Leader’s Guide to Developing Team Norms - http://bit.ly/teamnormsguide Creating Focus for Collaborative Planning WITHOUT Micromanaging Your Teams On-Demand Workshop - https://bit.ly/collabfocus Impact of Celebrations Blog - Five Mistakes Leaders Make When Organizing Data for Teams FREE webinar - https://bit.ly/5mistakesdata Five Planning Considerations to Transform Your Team Meetings…","meta_description":"In this replay episode of Building a Culture of Collaboration, Lorna and Kurtis are joined by Jeanne Spiller and Mark Onuscheck, two educational leaders,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3448,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/building-a-culture-of-collaboration-6015835/episodes/building-collaborative-cultures-that-drive-literacy-success-with-mark-onuscheck-and-jeanne-spiller-ep-86/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/building-a-culture-of-collaboration-6015835/building-collaborative-cultures-that-drive-literacy-success-with-mark-onuscheck-and-jeanne-spiller-ep-86.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}