Effective Leadership Teams (Interactive Modules)

The focus of these interactive modules is to facilitate the sustainability of PLC's through shared leadership. The effectiveness of your leadership team is critical to the successful implementation of PLC's, and these resources are here to help.

According to Michael Fullan (2001), “The role of leadership is to ‘cause’ greater capacity in the organization in order to get better results.” Linda Lambert (Building Leadership Capacity in Schools; 1998) further indicated that “School leadership needs to be a broad concept that is separated from person, role, and a discreet set of individual behaviors. It needs to be embedded in the school community as a whole. Such a broadening of the concept of leadership suggests shared responsibility for a shared purpose of community.”

Who are these learning module designed for:
These modules are primarily designed for building leaders who are responsible for impacting positive change in their schools and those individuals who share in that responsibility through their involvement on leadership teams.
Essential Questions:
1.      How to organize for shared leadership?
2.      How does an effective leadership team function?
3.      How does a leadership team monitor and provide feedback to teams?

Organizing for Shared Leadership
These three modules are primarily designed for building leaders and others charged with forming a leadership team.

Determine what is “shared leadership”, and establish why it is important to organize a leadership team.

Understand who should be on a leadership team and what team member characteristics are most helpful.

Identify what a leadership team needs to know about the change process.

Leadership Team Functions
These modules will focus upon these seven responsibilities of a school leader, and specifically how they translate into practices and responsibilities of a leadership team as they impact second order change of school improvement.

Responsibilities that foster second order change, an introduction.

(Handout)

An Agent for Change

Flexibility

Strong Ideals/Beliefs

Knowledge of Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment

Intellectual Stimulation

Monitoring/Evaluating

Optimizer

School Leadership that Works; Robert J. Marzano, Timothy Waters, Brian A. McNulty; MCREL Laboratories; 2005.

Organizing for Shared LeadershipThese three modules are primarily designed for building leaders and others charged with forming a leadership team.

Leadership Team FunctionsThese modules will focus upon these seven responsibilities of a school leader, and specifically how they translate into practices and responsibilities of a leadership team as they impact second order change of school improvement.

Organizing for Shared Leadership
These three modules are primarily designed for building leaders and others charged with forming a leadership team.

Leadership Team Functions
These modules will focus upon these seven responsibilities of a school leader, and specifically how they translate into practices and responsibilities of a leadership team as they impact second order change of school improvement.