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Collective Leader Efficacy

Strengthening Instructional Leadership Teams

By: Peter M. DeWitt

This research-based, hands-on guidebook introduces eight key drivers to integrating teacher and leader efficacy, along with a process that focuses on the nuances of instruction.

Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781071813720
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2021
  • Page Count: 312
  • Publication date: October 05, 2021

Price: $39.95

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Not just another book on leadership teams

For school teams to succeed, they need leadership, independence, meaningful collaboration, and a shared conviction that they have real power to enact actual change. Educators know this, but they often lack an inquiry process that creates a community of learning leaders that is capable of deep collective impact on student learning and wellbeing.

In this research-based, hands-on guidebook, school leadership coach Peter DeWitt introduces eight key drivers to integrating teacher and leader efficacy (mindset, well-being, context beliefs, working conditions, professional learning, organizational commitment, skills, and confidence) and harnesses it with a process to help you focus on the nuances of instruction and teaming to develop powerful collective leader efficacy.

Readers will find:

  • Activities and strategies designed to build collective efficacy in instructional teams and foster leadership and interdependence among teachers
  • Theories of action to focus team efforts and how to create your own
  • Tools, reflection prompts, and guiding questions to help you define your desired outcomes and the steps necessary to get there

With this book and the research within it, your instructional leadership team will develop a learner’s mindset, a collective commitment to improvement, and a shared process for inquiry and continual growth so you can nurture greater impact together.

Author(s)

Author(s)

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Peter M. DeWitt

Peter M. DeWitt, EdD is a former K–5 teacher (eleven years) and princi­pal (eight years). He is a school leader­ship coach who runs competency-based workshops and provides keynotes nationally and internationally, focus­ing on school leadership (collaborative cultures and instructional leadership), as well as fostering inclusive school climates.

Additionally, Peter coaches school-based leaders, directors, instructional coaches, teacher leaders, and school-based leadership teams both in per­son and remotely. In summer 2021 Peter created a yearlong on-demand asynchronous coaching course through Thinkific where he has fostered a community of learners that includes K–12 educators in leadership positions.

Peter’s work has been adopted at the state and university level, and he works with numerous school districts, school boards, regional networks, and ministries of education around North America, Australia, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the UK.

Peter writes the “Finding Common Ground” column for Education Week, which has been in circulation since 2011. In 2020 Peter co-created Education Week’s “A Seat at the Table” series, where he moderates con­versations with experts around the topics of race, gender, sexual orienta­tion, research, trauma, and many other educational topics.

Additionally, Peter is the editor for the Connected Educator series (Corwin) and the Impact series (Corwin), which include books by Viviane Robinson, Andy Hargreaves, Pasi Sahlberg, Yong Zhao, and Michael Fullan. He is the 2013 School Administrators Association of New York State’s (SAANYS) Outstanding Educator of the Year and the 2015 Education Blogger of the Year (Academy of Education Arts & Sciences), and he sits on numerous advisory boards. Peter is the author, co-author, or contributor of numerous books, including the following:

· Dignity for All: Safeguarding LGBT Students (Corwin, 2012)

· School Climate Change (co-authored with Sean Slade; ASCD, 2014)

· Flipping Leadership Doesn’t Mean Reinventing the Wheel (Corwin, 2014)

· Collaborative Leadership: Six Influences That Matter Most (Corwin/Learning Forward, 2016)

· School Climate: Leading With Collective Teacher Efficacy (Corwin/Ontario Principals Council, 2017)

· Coach It Further: Using the Art of Coaching to Improve School Leadership (Corwin, 2018)

· Instructional Leadership: Creating Practice Out of Theory (Corwin, 2020)

· 10 Mindframes for Leaders: The Visible Learning Approach to School Success (edited by John Hattie and Ray Smith; Corwin, 2020)

· Collective Leader Efficacy: Strengthening the Impact of Instructional Leadership Teams (Corwin/Learning Forward, 2021)

Peter’s articles have appeared in educational research journals at the state, national, and international level. His books have been translated into four languages.

Some of the organizations Peter has worked with are the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), Arkansas State University, EDUTAS, University of Oklahoma, Victoria Department of Education (Australia), University of Rotterdam (Netherlands), Washington Association of School Administrators (WASA), Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA), the National Education Association (NEA), New Brunswick Teacher’s Association (Canada), the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), Education Scotland (Scotland), Glasgow City Council (Scotland), Kuwait Technical College (Kuwait), the National Association of School Psychologists, ASCD, l’Association des directions et directions adjointes des écoles franco-ontariennes (ADFO), the Catholic Principals’ Council of Ontario (CPCO), the Ontario Principals’ Council (OPC), National School Climate Center, GLSEN, PBS, NPR, BAM Radio Network, ABC, and NBC’s Education Nation.


Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Foreword by Michael Fullan

Vocabulary terms

Introduction

SECTION I: RESEARCH


Chapter 1: Collective Leader Efficacy

SECTION II – CONTRIBUTORS FOR COLLECTIVE LEADER EFFICACY


Chapter 2: Developing a Leadership Mindset

Chapter 3: Mental Health & Wellbeing

Chapter 4: Context Beliefs

Chapter 5: Working Conditions

Chapter 6: Professional Learning and Development

Chapter 7: Organizational Commitment

Chapter 8: The Skills to Work in Collectives

Chapter 9: The Confidence to work in collectives

SECTION III – DELIBERATE PRACTICE AND PROCESS


Chapter 10: What Components Define an Instructional Core?

Chapter 11: Instructional Leadership Team’s Cycle of Inquiry

Chapter 12 – Focus for Improvement

Appendix 1 – Instructional Leadership Team: Request for Inclusion on the Team

Appendix 2 – Activity: Cultivating Mindsets of Collaboration

Appendix 3 – Weekly Log: Where Do You Spend Your Time?

Appendix 4 – Learning Walk Form

Appendix 5 – Guiding Questions 1- 4

Appendix 6 – Timetable Checklist

Appendix 7 – Purpose Statements 1-3

Appendix 8 – Inquiry Questions 1-3

Appendix 9 – Theories of Action 1-3

Appendix 10 – Theory of Action Evidence Templates

Appendix 11 – Blank Template Program Logic Model

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