Case 2: Reimagining Meetings as Collaborative Professional Learning Spaces: The Development of Clinical Practice Meetings at the University of North Florida

We have all been in meetings, in-person and virtual, and thought “this should have been an email.” In a highly globalized, fast-paced, non-stop work environment, time is viewed as a precious commodity not to be wasted or stolen. Meetings can fill our schedules from sunrise to sunset: stealing time from our day, giving us a false sense of productivity, monitoring colleagues’ labor. Yet they do not have to be conducted in this way. Meetings can be purposeful and meaningful. They can bring people together—either on a screen or in the same room—to collaborate on common goals and problem-solving. This case outlines how, over the course of an academic year, one particular meeting structure, clinical practice meetings (CPMs), at the University of North Florida (UNF), have served as a shared space for collaborative decision-making, job-embedded professional learning for all, and the building of a collective vision for clinical practice.