Running your Planning Meetings & Governance

In your founding process, you have to be now what you intend to create later to start an Agile Learning Center. We use agile tools with children because they work. Use the same tools with your team that you’ll use with the children. This way your leadership, families, and staff will start to gain mastery of the tools that provide structure for producing results. [See the Facilitation section for more info about ALC tools and practices.]

In your founding process, you have to be now what you intend to create later to start an Agile Learning Center.

How to establish healthy patterns now?

Use Kanban Boards (physical or virtual) to manage the tasks you need to complete.

Use GameShifting for meetings with more than two or three people.

Use the Community Mastery Board (CMB) to run better meetings while developing your culture and making your team’s norms and expectations explicit.

Make decisions using the Change-Up / CMB process.

When more official minutes are required (for legal purposes such as opening a bank account), the sticky notes on a CMB can be translated into more formal minutes. We recommend always using agile processes over the bureaucratic decision-making patterns of other organizations, which may be difficult to change later.