"New and veteran leaders who plan professional development or facilitate collaborative group work will find a tool kit of practical process strategies that work!" -Jan Rozzelle, Executive Director School Leadership Institute, The College of William and Mary "Everything you need is in this book. Activities and processes are so clearly explained and easy to follow that educators can adopt the ideas and use them over and over again! A must for teachers, administrators, and professional developers." -Margaret Hable, Educational Consultant The busy leader's easy-to-use resource for successful team building! Tapping into a school's potential for change begins with creating teams that are well organized and committed to sustainable results. This guidebook offers school leaders a wealth of practical team-building strategies for developing trust, establishing a team mission, leading and managing team meetings, and celebrating successes. Team-building consultant Carol Scearce presents an easy-to-use format in an updated edition that includes: Two new chapters on agenda design and problem-solving processes Techniques for facilitating more productive team-building sessions Strategy levels from "simple to use" to "for the committed" Vignettes and examples in each chapter Find out how to move your team members from "brainstorming" to "performing" by implementing team processes that can create lasting change in your school!
Carol Scearce is president of Enlightening Enterprises and a professional educational consultant who has taught K-12 general education and special education classes, served as director of staff development for a large school district, and also taught at the university level. Scearce has received the Outstanding Special Educator of the Year award and has been nominated for Who's Who In Education and Who's Who In Staff Development. She is a regular presenter at national conferences for ASCD, NSDC, the Brain Expo, the Council for Exceptional Children, and Title I schools, and has conducted over a 1,000 workshops.
Foreword Preface Acknowledgments About the Author Introduction 1. Trust Building Simple Things To Do: Trust Me, The Check Is in the Mail Things That Take Effort: You Can Depend On Me For the Committed: People Who Need People Are the Luckiest People 2. Mission Making Simple Things To Do: Up, Up, and Away Things That Take Effort: Let's Do It Together For the Committed: I Believe 3. Discovering Leadership Simple Things To Do: It Takes Two to Tango Things That Take Effort: The Power of One For the Committed: A Great Visionary 4. Establishing Roles and Responsibilities Simple Things To Do: Turn This Thing Around Things That Take Effort: High Hopes For the Committed: If They Could See Me Now! 5. Code of Conduct Simple Things To Do: I Just Dropped In to See What Condition My Condition Was In Things That Take Effort: Putting It Together For the Committed: Only the Strong Survive 6. Managing Meetings Simple Things To Do: What Kind of Fool Am I? Things That Take Effort: The Great Pretender For the Committed: It Makes Me Want to Shout! 7. Creating Agendas Simple Things To Do: What's Up Doc? Things That Take Effort: Out To Lunch For The Committed: This Is My Final Answer 8. Using Process Simple Things To Do: World War III Things That Take Effort: Me Too! For the Committed: Oops 9. Giving and Receiving Feedback Simple Things To Do: I Really Don't Want To Know Things That Take Effort: The First Cut Is the Deepest For the Committed: I'm on the Outside Looking In 10. Celebrating Successes Simple Things To Do: Celebration . . . Come On! Things That Take Effort: You're My Soul and My Inspiration For the Committed: Twist and Shout! 11. Resisters You Will See Final Note Bibliography
"Provides a wealth of relevant stories, examples, and practical strategies that teachers and administrators can apply immediately. New and veteran leaders who plan professional development or facilitate collaborative group work will find a tool kit of process strategies that work!" -- Jan Rozzelle, Executive Director "Everything you need is in this book. Activities and processes are so clearly explained and easy to follow that educators can adopt the ideas and use them over and over again! A must-have for teachers, administrators, and professional developers." -- Margaret Hable, Educational Consultant "A wealth of information suitable for any team-building endeavor. From designing an initial agenda and creating productive team-building conferencing to codes of conduct, unearthing leaders within teams, and using processes in classroom and teaching settings, this book is a must for not just schools, but for any serious business pursuit." -- The Bookwatch, July 2007
