Get the fuel you need to drive collaborative leadership in your school!
What type of leadership do you practice? If your answer is transformational or instructional, you’re not alone. Many of us rely on these tenets. But there are better advantages in applying a holistic angle including all stakeholders—an approach known as collaborative leadership.
Peter De Witt unpacks six leadership factors in Collaborative Leadership, all framed through the lens of John Hattie’s research. Adding insight, practical experiences, and vignettes, De Witt paints a powerful scheme: meet stakeholders where they are, motivate stakeholders to strive for improvement, model how to do it. The meet, motivate, model blueprint will inspire you to
- Transform your leadership practice
- Identify where you can make immediate changes
- Build and empower your leadership team
- Incorporate all stakeholders into the conversation
Designed to shape collective teacher efficacy and foster teacher voice, Collaborative Leadership will leave you motivated to work together.
Table des matières
Foreword
Preface
Collaborative Leadership
What You Will Find in This Book
Why This Book?
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1: What Do You Want to Be to Leadership?
What If You Could Be the Kind of Principal You Want to Be?
Motivating People to Be Their Best Every Day
What Is Collaborative Leadership?
Meet, Model, & Motivate
10 Critical Issues Facing Education
School Story—Many Hands Make Light Work
Meet, Model, & Motivate
Discussion Questions
Chapter 2: Instructional Leadership (.42)
What Do Instructional Leaders Do?
Collaborative Leadership: A Positive Effect on Learning
The Politics That Distract Us From Making Learning the Main Priority
Meet, Model, & Motivate
Flipping Our Focus to Learning
Student-Centered Leadership
Meet, Model, & Motivate
Discussion Questions
Chapter 3: Collective Teacher Efficacy (1.57)
To Be Effective, Teachers Need to Be Motivated
School Climate: The Plate Everything Lies On
Meet, Model, & Motivate
Enhance Communication to Promote Teacher Efficacy
Risk-Taking and Rule-Following: Finding the Balance
Within-School Variability
Fostering Teacher Voice to Increase Collaboration
Collective Teacher Efficacy
School Story—Teachers Need to Have a Voice, Too!
Meet, Model, & Motivate
Discussion Questions
Chapter 4: Assessment-Capable Learners (1.44)
Assessment-Capable Learners
Student Voice Needs to Come First
Inspiring Assessment-Capable Learning
Be More Than Visible
A Collaborative Leadership Mindframe
We Need Evidence to Collaborate Effectively
Meet, Model, & Motivate
Discussion Questions
Chapter 5: Professional Development (.51)
What Does Good Professional Development Look Like?
Flipped Faculty Meetings
Collaborative Leaders Debate, Dissect, and Discuss
The Core Business of Learning
School Story—Using Research to Engage All Stakeholders
Meet, Model, & Motivate
Discussion Questions
Chapter 6: Feedback (.75)
Feedback Is Complicated
Feedback to Move Learning Forward
One to Grow On
The Multiple Avenues of Effective Feedback
Teacher Observations: The Collaborative Approach
School Story—A New Collaboration
Meet, Model, & Motivate
Discussion Questions
Chapter 7: Family Engagement (.49)
Nurturing Family Engagement
Why Family Engagement Is Difficult
How We Communicate With Parents
Flipping Family Communications
The Partnership Approach
Branding Your School
School Story—Engaging Families at the High School Level
Meet, Model, & Motivate
Discussion Questions
Chapter 8—What Are Your Next Steps?
The Place to Start—Strengths
The Implementation Dip
Moving Forward by Discovering Your PLN
Don’t Negotiate or Regulate as Much as You Collaborate
Discussion Questions
Afterword—Russ Quaglia
References
Index
A propos de l’auteur
Peter De Witt (Ed.D) is the founder and CEO of the Instructional Leadership Collective. He was a K-5 teacher for 11 years and a principal for 8 years. For the last 10 years, he has been facilitating professional learning nationally, and internationally, based on the content of many of his best-selling educational books. De Witt′s professional learning relationships are a monthly hybrid approach that includes both coaching and the facilitating workshops on instructional leadership and collective efficacy. Additionally, in the Summer of 2021, De Witt created a year long on-demand, asynchronous coaching course through Thinkific where he has created a community of learners that include k-12 educators in leadership positions. De Witt′s work has been adopted at the state level, university level, and he works with numerous school districts, school boards, regional networks, ministries of education around North America, Australia, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the U.K. Peter writes the Finding Common Ground column for Education Week, which has been in circulation since 2011. In 2020 De Witt co-created Education Week′s A Seat At the Table where he moderates conversations with experts around the topics of race, gender, sexual orientation, research, trauma and many other educational topics. Additionally, De Witt is the Series Editor for the Connected Educator Series (Corwin Press) and the Impact Series (Corwin Press) that include books by Viviane Robinson, Andy Hargreaves, Pasi Sahlberg, Yong Zhao and Michael Fullan. He is the 2013 School Administrators Association of New York State′s (SAANYS) Outstanding Educator of the Year, and the 2015 Education Blogger of the Year (Academy of Education Arts & Sciences), and sits on numerous advisory boards. Peter is the author, co-author or contributor of numerous books. Click on title to purchase. They include: Dignity for All: Safeguarding LGBT Students