Not just another book on leadership teams
For school teams to succeed, they need leadership, independence, meaningful collaboration, and a shared conviction that they have real power to enact actual change. Educators know this, but they often lack an inquiry process that creates a community of learning leaders that is capable of deep collective impact on student learning and wellbeing.
In this research-based, hands-on guidebook, school leadership coach Peter De Witt introduces eight key drivers to integrating teacher and leader efficacy (mindset, well-being, context beliefs, working conditions, professional learning, organizational commitment, skills, and confidence) and harnesses it with a process to help you focus on the nuances of instruction and teaming to develop powerful collective leader efficacy.
Readers will find:
- Activities and strategies designed to build collective efficacy in instructional teams and foster leadership and interdependence among teachers
- Theories of action to focus team efforts and how to create your own
- Tools, reflection prompts, and guiding questions to help you define your desired outcomes and the steps necessary to get there
With this book and the research within it, your instructional leadership team will develop a learner’s mindset, a collective commitment to improvement, and a shared process for inquiry and continual growth so you can nurture greater impact together.
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Acknowledgments
About the Author
Foreword by Michael Fullan
Vocabulary terms
Introduction
SECTION I: RESEARCH
Chapter 1: Collective Leader Efficacy
SECTION II – CONTRIBUTORS FOR COLLECTIVE LEADER EFFICACY
Chapter 2: Developing a Leadership Mindset
Chapter 3: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Chapter 4: Context Beliefs
Chapter 5: Working Conditions
Chapter 6: Professional Learning and Development
Chapter 7: Organizational Commitment
Chapter 8: The Skills to Work in Collectives
Chapter 9: The Confidence to work in collectives
SECTION III – DELIBERATE PRACTICE AND PROCESS
Chapter 10: What Components Define an Instructional Core?
Chapter 11: Instructional Leadership Team’s Cycle of Inquiry
Chapter 12 – Focus for Improvement
Appendix 1 – Instructional Leadership Team: Request for Inclusion on the Team
Appendix 2 – Activity: Cultivating Mindsets of Collaboration
Appendix 3 – Weekly Log: Where Do You Spend Your Time?
Appendix 4 – Learning Walk Form
Appendix 5 – Guiding Questions 1- 4
Appendix 6 – Timetable Checklist
Appendix 7 – Purpose Statements 1-3
Appendix 8 – Inquiry Questions 1-3
Appendix 9 – Theories of Action 1-3
Appendix 10 – Theory of Action Evidence Templates
Appendix 11 – Blank Template Program Logic Model
References
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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