New Updates to the Team Alliance Guide: Conflict, Accountability, and Feedback

Strong teams don’t just happen, they are designed. The Team Alliance Guide helps student teams build that design by creating a shared agreement on how they’ll work together.

At its core is the Team Alliance Canvas, a simple visual tool that walks students through defining:

• Values – the principles they want their team to live by (like respect, inclusion, or responsibility).

• Behaviors – the everyday actions that make those values visible.

• Conflict Protocols – how they’ll handle disagreements when—not if—they arise.

• Feedback and Accountability – how they’ll give input, celebrate progress, and stay true to their commitments.

• Commitment – signing their agreement as a team pledge and keeping it visible as a living reference.

The process takes just 15–20 minutes but creates a foundation that supports collaboration, trust, and self-management. It also ties directly to 21st-century skills and social-emotional learning, helping students practice self-awareness, empathy, communication, and responsible decision-making.

What’s New in the Guide

The updated edition expands the guide with ready-to-use protocols for conflict resolution, accountability, and feedback—three areas students often struggle with most:

1. Conflict Resolution Protocols – Tools like the STOP technique, time-outs, and peer mediation help students navigate disagreements constructively.

2. Accountability Protocols – Routines such as shout-outs, accountability buddies, and group cheers keep progress visible and teams motivated.

3. Feedback Routines - Lightweight structures like “Thumbs Up + Tip” and “High Five Feedback” build a culture of supportive, actionable feedback.

Why This Matters

By using the Team Alliance Guide, educators can move beyond managing group work and start teaching teamwork as a skill. Students learn how to create shared norms, resolve challenges without teacher intervention, and hold each other accountable—all skills that extend far beyond the classroom .

Get the Free Guide

You can download the updated Team Alliance Guide for free here:

👉 https://learn.agileclassrooms.com/team-alliance

Take It Further: Practice in a Live ACT Course

Reading the guide is a great start. But to truly master how to apply these tools in real classrooms, join our next Agile Classrooms Certified Teacher (ACT) course on October 6–7.

You’ll get hands-on practice designing team alliances, facilitating feedback and conflict protocols, and learning how to make Agile work for your students.

👉 https://learn.agileclassrooms.com/agile-classrooms-certified-teacher

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