For maximum impact, let intention drive your actions.

Leading a team means more than running meetings. It’s leading collaborative learning for continuous improvement. Like effective teachers in the classroom, skillful team leaders decide what they are aiming to achieve and make small, intentional moves to produce powerful learning outcomes for teachers and students.

In this long-awaited follow-up to her best-selling book, The Skillful Team Leader, acclaimed educator Elisa MacDonald presents nearly 150 effective moves, organized by intention, for any educator who leads a team.

In this book, you'll find strategies to lead with purpose and direction, including how to:

• foster an inclusive environment and strengthen team trust
• interrupt bias and cultivate diverse perspectives
• navigate resistance and manage conflict
• facilitate data analysis
• lead peer observation
• assess your team’s collaboration

and so much more!

Written in a practitioner-friendly format with a light tone and relatable stories, this is a must-have book for all team leaders and those who support them in your school.

• Actionable strategies that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion on teams
• Examples and advice from real skillful team leaders
• A simple six-phase cycle to guide teams’ collaborative inquiry
• Essential understandings about group psychology, adult learning, and peer leadership
• A reflection tool to assess a team’s collaboration
• Templates, tools, and guiding prompts for skillful team leaders
• Pro tips for leading protocols
• Short, thought-provoking, relatable reads for a team leader book study