Action Steps for Improving Your Leadership Skills
My Leadership Strengths
My Leadership Challenges
Celebrating My Strengths
Demonstrate Integrity
Practice Empathy
Be Accessible
Understand the Need for Humility
Conclusion
Action Steps for Building Trust
Find Someone Who
All About You
Connecting Our Thinking
Assemble Different Kinds of Teams
Team Structures
Team Types
Understand and Utilize the Expertise of Others
Ensure Stakeholder Representation
Establish Loose-Tight Leadership
Conclusion
Action Steps for Building and Supporting a Team
Eighty Years of Accomplishments
From Mine to Ours
My Professional Strengths
Team Monitoring
How Can I Help Develop a Vision?
Differentiate Facts From Beliefs
Develop a Shared Vision
Help Teams Commit to the Vision
Develop Common Goals
Conclusion
Action Steps for Beginning to Create a Vision
Facts or Assumptions
Moving From One to All
Identify a Common Vocabulary
Find Common Time
Create Team Tools
Team Agendas
Team Norms
Team Notebooks
Team Products
Focus on Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Curriculum
Instruction
Assessment
Examine Data
Monitor Work
Conclusion
Action Steps for Supporting Collaborative Teams
Team Agenda and Meeting Minutes
Creating Team Norms
What, When, and How Should I Communicate?
Listen to Others
Share With Others
One-to-One Communication
Team and Faculty Communication
Parent Communication
Student Communication
Celebrate Others
Conclusion
Action Steps for Creating a Communication Plan
Communication Plan
Our Way of Communicating
Our School’s Strengths
Sharing and Celebrating Our Work
Leading a Celebration
Here’s to You
Action Steps for Leading the Right Work
One Big Thing
Where’s My Thinking?
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Terri L. Martin is executive vice president of business development at Solution Tree and Marzano Research. Terri recently served as the director of the Regional Educational Laboratory for the central region, where she supported the creation of resources and deliverables to meet regional needs. Previously, she was the director of school improvement initiatives at the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, where she led large projects to develop training programs and create professional learning communities statewide. She has developed and taught several courses as an adjunct professor at the University of Missouri and Columbia College while also serving as an elementary teacher and principal for almost twenty years.