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About This Book
Packed with strategies, tips, and activities you can quickly put into practice, this book shows how to build productive teams and intentionally create an environment of professional engagement in your school.
Authors Margaret Searle and Marilyn Swartz organize the work into four key steps:
1. Establishing guidelines and protocols, including drafting agendas and timelines;
2. Managing and resolving conflicts, including giving honest feedback and building team morale;
3. Refining decision-making skills, including creating win-win situations and improving flexibility and efficiency; and
4. Building team capacity, including evaluating and sustaining teamwork.
With the guidance in this book, you’ll soon see the benefits that come from highly effective teams of teachers who powerfully focus on student results.
Topics : Professional Learning Community
Table Of Content
Introduction
Establish Guidelines and Protocols
Managing and Resolving Conflict
Refining Decision-Making Skills
Building Team Capacity
Conclusion
Encore
References
Related ASCD Resources: Teamwork
About the Authors
About the Authors
Margaret Searle:
Margaret Searle is the founder of Searle Enterprises, a consultant group working in the areas of collaboration, problem-solving, and innovative teaching techniques. She presents nationally and works with individual school districts to develop and implement continuous improvement plans. Margaret has been a teacher, Title I director, middle school principal, elementary principal, K–12 supervisor, and adjunct professor for Ashland University. She served as president of the Ohio Association of Elementary School Administrators and was an education advisor to President George H. W. Bush. Margaret is the author of the Ohio Department of Education’s Standards-Based Instruction for All Learners: A Treasure Chest for Principal-led Building Teams (2004.) Her second book, What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do: Building a Pyramid of Interventions (2007), describes a step-by-step method for diagnosing causes of troublesome issues and provides guidelines for actively involving parents and students in problem-solving. Her third book, Response to Intervention: What Every School Leader Needs To Know About RTI (ASCD, 2010), and the companion DVD on secondary school RTI interventions are practical guides for teachers and administrators who want to build a culture of data-driven decision making supported by researchbased interventions. Searle’s most recent book, Causes and Cures in the Classroom: Getting to the Root of Academic and Behavior Problems (ASCD, 2013), reveals new neurological research about how underdeveloped executive function skills can cause poor behavior and achievement, and gives specific strategies for addressing these problems.
Marilyn Swartz:
Marilyn Swartz has experience teaching at multiple grade levels in both special education and general education. She served as a curriculum director for many years and as a consultant for a Special Education Regional Resource Center (SERRC). She has provided professional learning opportunities for educators both nationally and internationally. Marilyn is involved in school improvement work with the Ohio State Support Team. In her current role as an educational consultant, she trains mentors for the entry year program for the Ohio State Department of Education, is an adjunct professor for Ashland University, and serves as a lead trainer for Searle Enterprises, Inc. She completed her doctoral studies in leadership and professional development and has a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction. Areas of expertise include curriculum development, Marzano’s research-based teaching and behavior strategies, response to intervention (RTI), intervention assistance teams (IAT), differentiation, co-teaching, and the development of integrated systems models.
ISBN: 9786038147429
Author: Searle, Margaret and Marilyn Swartz
Publisher: Educational Book House
Publish Year: 2016
Size: 17*24cm
Pages number: 64
