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Stronger Together
Answering the Questions of Collaborative Leadership
Foster leadership development and empower teams by understanding your own leadership style, engendering trust, supporting others, and implementing transparent communication. Improve student achievement and develop collaborative teams using various strategies.
Benefits
- Understand your own leadership style so you can play to your strengths and improve weaknesses.
- Learn how to build the right kinds of collaborative teams and create common goals.
- Use collaborative strategies to create a common vision statement and garner buy-in from team members using the elements of trust: integrity, empathy, and humility.
- Develop ongoing transparent communication among school leadership, team members, faculty, parents, and students.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Beginning Thoughts
Chapter 1: What Kind of Leader Am I?
Chapter 2: How Can I Earn Trust?
Chapter 3: How Do I Build Teams?
Chapter 4: How Can I Help Develop a Vision?
Chapter 5: How Can I Support Teams?
Chapter 6: What, When, and How Should I Communicate?
Epilogue: Concluding Thoughts
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Introduction
Chapter 1
- Action Steps for Improving Your Leadership Skills
- Celebrating My Strengths
- Examining Your Current Reality: What Kind of Leader Am I?
- My Leadership Challenges
- My Leadership Strengths
Chapter 2
- Action Steps for Building Trust
- All About You
- Connecting Our Thinking
- Examining Your Current Reality: How Can I Earn Trust?
- Find Someone Who
Chapter 3
- Action Steps for Building and Supporting a Team
- Eighty Years of Accomplishments
- Examining Your Current Reality: How Do I Build Teams?
- From Mine to Ours
- My Professional Strengths
- Team Monitoring
Chapter 4
- Action Steps for Beginning to Create a Vision
- Examining Your Current Reality: How Can I Help Develop a Vision?
- Facts or Assumptions
- Moving From One to All
Chapter 5
- Action Steps for Supporting Collaborative Teams
- Creating Team Norms
- Examining Your Current Reality: How Can I Support Teams?
- Team Agenda and Meeting Minutes
Chapter 6
- Action Steps for Creating a Communication Plan
- Communication Plan
- Examining Your Current Reality: What, When, and How Should I Communicate?
- Here’s to You
- Leading a Celebration
- Our School’s Strengths
- Our Way of Communicating
- Sharing and Celebrating Our Work
Epilogue
- Action Steps for Leading the Right Work
- Examining Your Current Reality: Concluding Thoughts
- One Big Thing
- Where’s My Thinking?
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
BOOKS
- DuFour, R. (2015). In Praise of American Educators: And How They Can Become Even Better. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., & Karhanek, G. (2010). Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap: Whatever It Takes. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., Many, T. W., & Mattos, M. (2016). Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (3rd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Eaker, R., & Keating, J. (2012). Every School, Every Team, Every Classroom: District Leadership for Growing Professional Learning Communities at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Erkens, C. (2008). Growing Teacher Leadership.In A. Buffum, C. Erkens, C. Hinman, S. Huff, L. G. Jessie, T. L. Martin et al. (Eds.), The Collaborative Administrator: Working Together as a Professional Learning Community (pp. 39–53). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Kanold, T. D. (2011). The Five Disciplines of PLC Leaders. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Kramer, S. V. (2015). How to Leverage PLCs for School Improvement. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Lipton, L., & Wellman, B. (2012). Got Data? Now What? Creating and Leading Cultures of Inquiry. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Marzano, R. J. (2017). The New Art and Science of Teaching: More Than Fifty New Instructional Strategies for Academic Success. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Marzano, R. J. (2018). Making Classroom Assessments Reliable and Valid. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Marzano, R. J., Warrick, P., & Simms, J. A. (2014). A Handbook for High Reliability Schools: The Next Step in School Reform. Bloomington, IN: Marzano Research.
- Marzano, R. J., & Waters, T. (2009). District Leadership That Works: Striking the Right Balance. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Mattos, M., DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, B., & Many, T. W. (2016). Concise Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Professional Learning Communities at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Muhammad, A. (2017). Transforming School Culture: How to Overcome Staff Division. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- O’Neill, J., & Conzemius, A. (2006). The Power of SMART Goals: Using Goals to Improve Student Learning. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Sparks, D. (2010). Leadership 180: Daily Meditations on School Leadership. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
WEBSITES
- The Big Five Project Personality Test
- The Education Alliance at Brown University, Changing Systems to Personalize Learning: Personalized Learning
- Google Drive
- The Leadership Challenge
- National School Reform Faculty, Future Protocol a.k.a. Back to the Future
- Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Building Trusting Relationships for School Improvement: Implications for Principals and Teachers
