Description
Product ID: | 9781506344928 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Leading School Teams |
Subtitle: | Building Trust to Promote Student Learning |
Authors: | Author: David M. Horton |
Page Count: | 200 |
Subjects: | Educational administration and organization, Organization & management of education |
Description: | With ready-to-use tools, this guide will help school leaders connect people, build trust, discover strengths, and clear barriers to improve teacher effectiveness - and ultimately raise student achievement. The busy administrator’s guide to creating strong teams, changing culture, and improving performance How effective is your team? Research shows that “teacher collective efficacy”—when all teachers are collectively engaged and focused on improvement—can do more to increase student learning than any other strategy. In fact, using powerhouse teams can achieve four years of student growth in a single calendar year. Horton’s practical guide will help you form your own dream team through:
Horton will help you connect people, build trust, discover strengths, and clear barriers to reach greater teacher and program effectiveness—and ultimately raise student achievement. This book provides leaders and teams with a blueprint of how to work through a problem to find possible solutions while valuing each member of the team. This is not an easy task at any level and to have a resource to provide guidance for those tough situations is always welcomed. Leading School Teams allowed our team to address the lack of processes and the finger pointing and tension that went along with it. It was surprising how quickly the activities and discussion brought out the meat of the issues within our team. Because of the natural manner in which the issues were approached, team members felt respected and accomplished after each session. |
Imprint Name: | Corwin Press Inc |
Publisher Name: | SAGE Publications Inc |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2016-12-21 |