Leading in Sync: Teacher Leaders and Principals Working Together for Student Learning

by Jill Harrison Berg

Overview

Teacher leadership holds great promise for improving the quality of teaching and ensuring student success. But for co-performance of leadership to be effective, teachers and principals need to lead in sync.Leadership coach Jill Harrison Berg guides educators through the process of creating a shared vision for student success and effective teaching, developing a mutual understanding of each person's role in achieving that vision, establishing a schoolwide culture of teacher leadership, and building the trust needed to bring it all together.

Leading In Sync: Teacher Leaders and Principals Working Together for Student Learning provides principals, assistant principals, coaches, department leaders, grade-level and content team leaders, mentors, professional development leaders, and in fact all teachers with the strategies and tools needed to:
* Examine their own thinking about what constitutes quality teaching.
* Tap faculty members who are already leading.
* Identify who has the knowledge, skills, and dispositions required for particular leadership roles.
* Support leadership collaboration through efficient, effective communication.
* Develop trust within the school community.

Berg offers thought-provoking context and reflection questions so that educators can examine their own unique settings; real-world examples of teachers and principals co-performing leadership to improve student success; and dozens of strategies, tools, and templates to facilitate leading in sync.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416626473
Publisher:	ASCD
Publication date:	08/15/2018
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	121,445
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jill Harrison Berg is a leadership coach at Teachers21 and principal consultant of Jill Harrison Berg Consulting. With Jill's support, education leaders are able to strengthen their capacities for creating powerful, coordinated systems that maximize the leadership potential of teachers.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Leadership as Influence 7

Chapter 2 Shared Vision 22

Chapter 3 Leadership Co-Performance 40

Chapter 4 Culture of Teacher Leadership 63

Chapter 5 Strengthening Trust 93

Chapter 6 Learning to Lead Together 122

Appendix A Annotated List of Figures and Blank Templates 139

Appendix B Resources for Extending Your Learning Together 161

Bibliography 171

Index 174

About the Author 178

What People are Saying About This

Dennis Shirley

Leading in Sync is a breakthrough masterpiece, helping all teacher leaders and their principals to find new ways of collaborating to solving the hitherto most "wicked problems" of educational challenge. Chock-full of concrete examples grounded in nitty-gritty, everyday realities, this is a book that will be treasured by educators at all levels and in all contexts. The writing is lively and the solutions are realistic and persuasive. This is a must-read for every serious change leader.

Ann Lieberman

At last we have a book that has courageously reconfigured the very meaning of leadership in a school. Teaching us how to build trust, create, organize and support the influences for school improvement, we learn about the critical bonds needed between principals and teachers as leaders. We come to understand how to improve student learning, while building a collaborative culture in a school. This is a must read for all those who need an important partner in the process of building this culture. Jill Harrison Berg is it!

Susan Moore Johnson

Teachers' expertise has long been trapped inside the separate classrooms of the egg-crate school. Efforts to liberate what teachers know and can do have repeatedly fallen short for fear that as teachers gain influence, principals must lose it. But the potential for leadership in schools is not zero-sum and a miserly standoff between teachers and principals will only shortchange students. In her insightful, no-nonsense playbook for teachers and administrators, Jill Harrison Berg captures the promise of schoolwide leadership and deftly explains how educators can all lead, if only they'll do it in sync.