Collective Leader Efficacy

Peter DeWitt, Ed.D., is the founder and CEO of the Instructional Leadership Collective. A former K–5 teacher for 11 years and principal for eight years, Peter has spent more than 12 years supporting educators and leadership teams across the United States and internationally. He provides keynotes, workshops, and long-term hybrid professional learning that combines in-person facilitation, virtual coaching, and sustained collaborative inquiry. His work focuses on instructional leadership, collective leader efficacy, and helping leadership teams turn professional learning into meaningful action.Peter’s work has been adopted by state and provincial agencies, universities, school districts, school boards, regional networks, and ministries of education across North America, Australia, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United Kingdom. He is the author, co-author, or contributor to numerous bestselling books, many of which have been translated into multiple languages. Peter co-authors Education Week’s Finding Common Ground column with Michael Nelson, co-hosts Corwin’s Leaders Coaching Leaders podcast, and co-created Education Week’s A Seat at the Table.

In this excellent book, Peter DeWitt demonstrates how instructional leadership teams can have a greater impact on student learning. Offering a balance between research and practice, DeWitt shows, for example, how the mindsets both of individuals and of their teams can help them meet challenges and achieve that impact. As an experienced teacher, principal, worldwide consultant, and writer, DeWitt speaks with authority and wisdom.

• AcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorForeword by Michael FullanVocabulary termsIntroductionSECTION I: RESEARCHChapter 1: Collective Leader EfficacySECTION II – CONTRIBUTORS FOR COLLECTIVE LEADER EFFICACYChapter 2: Developing a Leadership MindsetChapter 3: Mental Health & WellbeingChapter 4: Context BeliefsChapter 5: Working ConditionsChapter 6: Professional Learning and DevelopmentChapter 7: Organizational CommitmentChapter 8: The Skills to Work in CollectivesChapter 9: The Confidence to work in collectivesSECTION III – DELIBERATE PRACTICE AND PROCESSChapter 10: What Components Define an Instructional Core?Chapter 11: Instructional Leadership Team’s Cycle of InquiryChapter 12 – Focus for ImprovementAppendix 1 – Instructional Leadership Team: Request for Inclusion on the TeamAppendix 2 – Activity: Cultivating Mindsets of CollaborationAppendix 3 – Weekly Log: Where Do You Spend Your Time?Appendix 4 – Learning Walk FormAppendix 5 – Guiding Questions 1- 4Appendix 6 – Timetable ChecklistAppendix 7 – Purpose Statements 1-3Appendix 8 – Inquiry Questions 1-3Appendix 9 – Theories of Action 1-3Appendix 10 – Theory of Action Evidence TemplatesAppendix 11 – Blank Template Program Logic ModelReferences