Toni Osborn Faddis - Böcker
386 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Foster Trust, Accountability and Engagement in Your Teams
Creating strong, cohesive teams is an art, and How Teams Work: A Playbook for Distributing Leadership is the essential guide for school leaders looking to master this craft. This interactive playbook doesn't just advise but actively equips leaders with the tools they need to foster trust, accountability, and engagement in their teams.
School leaders today face a critical mandate: to empower, engage, and work in concert with their teams to foster a positive and productive school environment. How Teams Work doesn't offer mere platitudes—it offers practical strategies and tools, with concept maps, learning intentions, team challenges, reflection prompts and more. Information is organized into six modules exploring:
The foundational role leaders play in team dynamicsStrategies to bring together and mobilize effective leadership teamsMethods to forge and maintain team unity and collaborationHow to build and maintain trust and respect within teamsPractical tools for maximizing team productivity and decision-makingGuidelines on reflective leadership to assess and improve team performanceHow Teams Work isn't only a resource; it's a roadmap to sustainable success, illuminating the path to nurturing leadership at every level. In an age where the turnover of educators is high and the need for sustained, collective school improvement efforts is urgent, leveraging the power of teams isn't just advantageous—it's essential.
480 kr
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Lead lasting change for your entire learning community
School leadership requires more than good intentions—it demands consequential actions that produce positive and meaningful outcomes for students, teachers, and the whole school community. Consequential Leadership is a practical, illustrated guide for busy educational leaders that will help you move beyond compliance to meaningful transformation—efficiently and effectively.
Drawing from extensive research and real-world experience, the authors present five essential leadership imperatives that combine theoretical insights with actionable strategies, all delivered alongside engaging illustrations that make complex concepts accessible and memorable.
The book explores crucial areas that define effective educational leadership:
Five leadership imperatives that include courage and accountability, motivation and collective purpose, evidence-based decision making, professional learning design, and performance conversationsPractical tools and assessments like self-evaluation rubrics, reflection prompts, and a personalized leadership journey mapReal-world applications that bridge research and practice, helping you to implement strategies that drive student achievement and teacher effectivenessA visual framework that presents leadership concepts through illustrations, charts, and diagrams designed to enhance understanding and retentionEmbracing consequential leadership principles will allow you to develop the skills and competencies to create learning environments where students grow academically and personally, teachers thrive professionally, and school communities flourish through collective purpose and shared accountability.
464 kr
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Be the leader your school community needs The responsibilities of school leaders are increasingly complex. In this book, you will find a problem-solving model to help you think through morally complex situations. These steps will enable you to arrive at innovative solutions that are ethical, logical, culturally sensitive, and in the best interests of students. Packed with real-life vignettes, mental exercises, reflections, checklists, and other templates, these strategies will help you
Understand how ethical standards and core values drive your leadership choices Approach problems through a lens of equity and care for the students entrusted to you Recognize when urgent action is called for and when it’s better to slow down in order to thoroughly consider your actions and the potential consequences of those actionsAs a leader, you face difficult challenges every day. This book will help ensure that the decisions you make are right for your students—and for the whole community.