Leading School Teams - Building Trust to Promote Student Learning

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:

• Short activities that require little to no preparation that you can use to deepen conversation at your very next meeting
• Step-by-step tools that will help your team move from identifying its biggest challenges to choosing and implementing successful reforms
• Strategies to enhance teamwork, trust, and collaboration so that your team becomes as effective as possible

Horton will help you connect people,