Complete puzzle at your table Discuss with tablemates what is noticeable about the puzzle once it is together. Do the traits from your puzzle resemble.

Complete puzzle at your table

Discuss with tablemates what is noticeable about the puzzle once it is together.

Do the traits from your puzzle resemble your school leadership team? Explain how it does or not.

Teamwork Examples

Teamwork Video Debriefing

• Share a reflection from the puzzle activity or videos.

Susan Ridings

Roxie

Browning

Kerri

Jackson

Presenters:

“School Improvement – Piecing it all Together”

Building Effective Leadership Teams

Keys to Success for an Effective Leadership

Team• Campus leadership team meets regularly.• Leadership team dialogues with the SIS &

District support team(s).• Leadership team gives focused attention

to assessing, planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating objectives & goals.

• Principal provides direction for all campus teams, focusing on instruction while building leadership capacity for others.

Source: Indistar Connect: Center on Innovations in Learning

Leadership Team Members

The team should be a combination of members with diverse skills, experiences and knowledge.Building AdministratorsTeachersInstructional FacilitatorsCommunity membersParentsStudents

Effective Leadership Team Roles A voice for ALL school stakeholders.

Assist the principal in making data driven decisions that lead to student achievement.

Builds the capacity of the school to address student, parent and staff concerns.

Set expectations, support implementation and consistently evaluate progress.

Ensure the focus is on learning and continuing improvement through the ACSIP/PIP/TIP .

Serve as a steward of the schools’ mission, vision and core values.

Leadership Team Assessment &

Reflection• Using the rubric,

rate your current leadership team.

• Discuss commonalities amongst teammates at your table.

• Share with group.

Where do we go from here?

Organizing GeniusWarren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman

• “Groups become great only when everyone in them, leaders and members alike, is free to do his or her absolute best.”

• “The best thing a leader can do for a Great Group is to allow its members to discover their greatness.”

Consider Each Team Member

Staying Focused on Results

Demonstrate Accountability

Establish the Willingness to Make Commitments

Trust Among Members

Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Jossey-Bass), pg. 97

Leadership Team Toolkit

Resources used to support an effective leadership team including:

Leadership team meetings, attendance & normsTeam roles and responsibilitiesInformation deliveryData

Find the Leadership Team Toolkit on arkansased.org

Presenter Contact Information

Roxie [email protected]

501-683-3842

Kerri [email protected]

501-682-5250

Susan [email protected]

501-683-3436

Arkansas Department

of Education

School Improvement