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The Skillful Team Leader. A Resource for Overcoming Hurdles to Professional Learning for Student Achievement.
Elisa B. Macdonald
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Description for The Skillful Team Leader. A Resource for Overcoming Hurdles to Professional Learning for Student Achievement.
Paperback. MacDonald offers a skillful approach to team leadership plus reality-based examples illustrating common hurdles in collaboration, shared leadership, goal setting, rigorous discourse, and continuous improvement. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JNMT; JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 590.
Get the most out of your PLCs and teacher teams!
All teams face hurdles. What distinguishes the skillful team leader from a less effective one is his or her approach in overcoming them. Whether you are a team leader or a trainer of team leaders, this book is an essential resource for you.
Elisa MacDonald offers a skillful approach to team leadership rooted in values, mindset, intelligence, and skill. Readers will learn from reality-based examples illustrating common team hurdles in collaboration, shared leadership, goal setting and attainment, rigorous discourse, and continuous improvement. This practical guide features:
- Research-based and field-tested solutions ... Read morefor preventing and overcoming hurdles
- Brief follow-up sections with tips for sustaining positive change
- Ways to work beyond the team to shape and influence school culture
- Prompts to apply learning to your own leadership hurdles
- A common chapter format for easy reference and flexible use
"Teacher teams have become a common fixture of North American schools. However, not all teams make the best use of their meeting time by engaging in sustained, professional learning. Written in a clear, practitioner-friendly style, this book provides team leaders with an array of useful strategies to address common team hurdles and realize the promise of powerful, collaborative learning."
—Jim Knight, Author of Instructional Coaching
"This book is a fantastic resource for someone who leads teams every day. The vignettes echo the very real challenges that I continually see in team meetings. The book is organized so that I can easily find practical strategies to apply right away when I am facing major challenges in my daily work."
— Karen Coyle Aylward, Literacy Coach and Team Leader
Boston, MA
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Product Details
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc United States
Place of Publication
Thousand Oaks, United States
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About Elisa B. Macdonald
An educator for 30 years, Elisa B. MacDonald is the author of the best-selling book, The Skillful Team Leader: A Resource for Overcoming Hurdles to Professional Learning for Student Achievement. Her broad-ranging experience includes roles such as teacher, literacy coach, and assistant principal of instruction in the Boston Public Schools and adjunct professor for teacher action research at Boston College. ... Read moreAs national director at Teach Plus, Elisa built up and led a program in six cities in which teams of teachers in chronically underperforming schools achieved rapid gains for students. Currently, Elisa consults with school districts and organizations, training and coaching team leaders and helping to transform teacher, school, and district-level leadership teams. When Elisa isn’t championing students and teachers, she is on stage acting, driving her twins to soccer and theater, or experimenting in the kitchen, pretending she’s on the Food Network. Contact Elisa if you want to learn more about skillful intentional team leadership, or if you just want a delicious fudge recipe. www.elisamacdonald.com skillfulteamleader@gmail.com (Twitter) @elisaBmacdonald (LinkedIn) Elisa B. MacDonald Show Less
Reviews for The Skillful Team Leader. A Resource for Overcoming Hurdles to Professional Learning for Student Achievement.
“Teacher teams have become a common fixture of North American schools. However, not all teams make the best use of their meeting time by engaging in sustained, professional learning. Written in a clear, practitioner-friendly style, this book provides team leaders with an array of useful strategies to address common team hurdles and realize the promise of powerful, collaborative learning.”
... Read moreJim Knight, Author of Instructional Coaching "No matter what situation a leader or coach finds themselves in, the answer is going to be somewhere between the pages of this text. Having alternate routes to consider is a plus to the problem solving."
Roxie Ahlbrecht, Math Intervention Specialist "This book is a fantastic resource for me someone who leads teams every day. The vignettes echo the very real challenges that I continually see in team meetings. The book is organized so that I can easily find practical strategies to apply right away when I am facing major challenges in my daily work."
Karen Coyle Aylward, Literacy Coach and Team Leader "This book has become an indispensible guide for me and my leaders. MacDonald has masterfully drawn from her own experiences and from experts in the field to create a practical resource for anyone involved in leadership development or wanting to improve his or her own leadership skills."
Emily Becker, School Innovation Partner "This book does an excellent job of living up to its title. The author addresses a variety of roadblocks leaders face—whether they are teachers or administrators—and offers suggestions to help overcome these obstacles."
David G. Daniels, High School Principal "MacDonald’s book provides “real talk” and real solutions to problems that arise in schools. She does not tip toe around issues. She confronts them and writes about practical ways to both avoid potential hurdles and deal with issues when they arise."
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