Coming Back to Climate - Model Agenda for Data Meeting with Faculty

Sep 12, 2026

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Coming Back to Climate provides school leaders with a model 45–60 minute agenda for data meetings with faculty across the school year. It supports community building, shared knowledge and understanding, staff commitment, and planning through beginning-, middle-, and end-of-year cycles. The agenda includes sample objectives, reflective and discussion questions, and facilitation considerations, including guidance for virtual settings and incorporating student voice through student climate data. It also emphasizes distributed leadership, equity-focused data review, and creating space for authentic dialogue.

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Pages7

Reading Time3 min

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Sample Agenda Structure

Reflective Questions for Leaders

Beginning of the Year Agenda

Build Community

Build Knowledge & Understanding

Build Commitment

Build a Plan

Closing & Next Steps

Middle of the Year Agenda

Disaggregate Data for Equity

Review Growth Areas & Strategies

End of the Year Agenda

COMING BACK TO CLIMATE: MODEL AGENDA FOR DATA MEETING WITH FACULTY HOW TO USE Creating climate with teachers requires consistent opportunities for community building, collaboration, and reflection. This document provides school leaders with sample objectives, key questions, and facilitation considerations to create improvement-oriented agendas over the course of the school year. Coming Back to Climate highlights how bringing climate data into continuous improvement cycles signals to teachers an investment in conditions for learning through regular reflections on climate data. We encourage leaders to leverage existing routines such as staff meetings, professional development sessions, town halls, or principal coffee chats. This document is a scaffold for beginning-of-year, middle-of-year, and end-of-year agendas. Each includes opportunities for co-creating community, knowledge, investment, and plans. Agendas are designed to facilitate a 45-60 minute meeting. Educators should also be supported in incorporating student voice into these meetings by collecting and sharing student climate data in these meetings. We recommend reflecting on these questions: • What are the 1-2 objectives for each agenda component that will be most meaningful to faculty? • From the benchmark and formative data staff have collected, what will be most meaningful to discuss, and how will it be accessible for all participants? • What are opportunities for distributed leadership to demonstrate and increase community voice and agency? • What approaches foster a culture of care and encourage authentic dialogue amongst a group of diverse staff? BEGINNING OF THE YEAR MIDDLE OF THE YEAR END OF THE YEAR The beginning-of-year (BOY) agenda focuses on introducing key concepts of belonging, engaging staff in research and school-specific data, and developing a plan for the school year. SAMPLE AGENDA: BUILD COMMUNITY BUILD KNOWLEDGE & UNDERSTANDING BUILD COMMITMENT BUILD A PLAN CLOSING & NEXT STEPS 10 min. 15 min. 20 min. 10 min. 5 min. COMING BACK TO CLIMATE: MODEL AGENDA FOR DATA MEETING WITH FACULTY | | Potential Objectives | Potential Questions | Facilitation Considerations | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Build Community | Engage in a dialogue about our own experience with the school | When you were growing up, who was an adult who you had a caring and supportive relationship with? How did that impact your life?
When have you felt the most welcomed at our school?
When have you felt the least welcomed at our school? | With less than 10 participants: Give each participant one minute to share their name, connection to the school, and answer one of the key questions
With 10 or more participants: Give participants 3 minutes in pairs to answer two of the key questions. Ask if there are two pairs that would like to share out. Share your response with the whole group
Virtual Hall Modifications:
Virtual meeting software may provide the opportunity to create breakout groups, or share reactions through the chat function | | | Acknowledge and create space to understand how individual members of the community are experiencing the current racial situation in our country | How has the current racial situation in the country impacted you? How does it relate to your experience at our school?
How have you seen it impact our students?
How has your role as an educator been different this year, compared to previous years? | | | | Acknowledge and create space to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the lived experiences of members of the community | How has COVID impacted you? How has it impacted your experience at school?
How has your community changed asa result of COVID and current racial tensions? | | | Build Know ledge & Understanding | Understand how school climate impacts student achievement | What is school climate data? What data sources do we look to in order to evaluate our climate data

FAQs

What is the purpose of the Coming Back to Climate model agenda?

It helps school leaders create improvement-oriented faculty agendas that use climate data to support continuous reflection, community building, and planning throughout the year.

How long are the data meetings designed to be?

Each agenda is designed for a 45–60 minute meeting, with suggested time blocks for different components.

How does the agenda support an equity-centered review of climate data?

It includes guidance to disaggregate data (e.g., by race, gender, and free-and-reduced meal status) and to use an equity lens to identify trends and subgroup experiences.

Sep 12, 2026

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