Collaborative Reflecting can be effectively done using various different strategies. Review the descriptions of them below:

Team Teaching
Team teaching an enlightening and powerful learning experience for all involved! This is a great opportunity for educators to learn best practices from one another and practice them all in the same lesson! Although I have had very little opportunities to teach with another teacher, The few times that I have done so have been fun, informative, and almost instantly increased student engagement.

Whisper Coaching
Whisper coaching is not often seen as a collaboration strategy but rather a coaching tool. Observing another teacher and discussing what the teacher is doing and how students are responding to her teaching can be a great way for teachers to collaborate with each other. This does not have to be done only with a teacher coach. Instead teacher teams or grade-level teams can observe a live lesson and reflect on the lesson together and in real time!

Resources Revival
Sharing of resources among teachers has been a long-time "secret" to success. This is because teachers are constantly finding new resources, games, and effective educational websites & Apps. I have seen the power of educators sharing resources and how it positively affects student learning  from the well-known website www.teacherspayteachers.com. However, This website forced me to reflect on ways that educators can continue to collaborate and share more than just resouces. This can be done through a "resources revival". My vision for this would be similar to a eduactional conference or seminar where the sharing  of best practices, the latest technological advancements in education, discussion boards, and videos of lessons being taught in various subjects and grade-levels along with the attached lesson plan.

Parent-Teacher Communication
 Womack, Hanna & Bell, 2012 explored the four most important factors in teaching Effectiveness and found that lesson planning was at the top of the list. As a result, they explored the variances in lesson planning and found that parent-teacher communication accounted for 18% of  the variance. This proves the importance of including parents in lesson planning and helping them to understand the learning objectives and expectations. I do this through parent-teacher conferences, back-to-school nights, and home visits. However, to keep parents in the loop of what we are learning on a consistent basis, I use a communication app named Class Dojo. I try to keep parents informed of our learning by providing them with you tube video links, taking pictures of exemplars, sharing homework tips, and showing off student work!
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References:
Womack, S, T., Pepper, S., Hanna, S.L., & Bell, C. D. (2015).Most effective practices in lesson planning.