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Collective Leader Efficacy Peter M. DeWitt

Collective Leader Efficacy By Peter M. DeWitt

Collective Leader Efficacy by Peter M. DeWitt

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Collective Leader Efficacy Summary

Collective Leader Efficacy: Strengthening Instructional Leadership Teams by Peter M. DeWitt

Not just another book on leadership teams

For school teams to succeed, they need leadership, independence, meaningful collaboration, and a shared conviction that they have real power to enact actual change. Educators know this, but they often lack an inquiry process that creates a community of learning leaders that is capable of deep collective impact on student learning and wellbeing.

In this research-based, hands-on guidebook, school leadership coach Peter DeWitt introduces eight key drivers to integrating teacher and leader efficacy (mindset, well-being, context beliefs, working conditions, professional learning, organizational commitment, skills, and confidence) and harnesses it with a process to help you focus on the nuances of instruction and teaming to develop powerful collective leader efficacy.

Readers will find:

  • Activities and strategies designed to build collective efficacy in instructional teams and foster leadership and interdependence among teachers
  • Theories of action to focus team efforts and how to create your own
  • Tools, reflection prompts, and guiding questions to help you define your desired outcomes and the steps necessary to get there

With this book and the research within it, your instructional leadership team will develop a learner's mindset, a collective commitment to improvement, and a shared process for inquiry and continual growth so you can nurture greater impact together.

Collective Leader Efficacy Reviews

In this excellent book, Peter DeWitt demonstrates how instructional leadership teams can have a greater impact on student learning. Offering a balance between research and practice, DeWitt shows, for example, how the mindsets both of individuals and of their teams can help them meet challenges and achieve that impact. As an experienced teacher, principal, worldwide consultant, and writer, DeWitt speaks with authority and wisdom. -- Carol Dweck * Stanford, CA *
Collective efficacy has a powerful impact on leaders, teachers, and students, but it is hard to implement. DeWitt teases out the key skillsets and mindsets needed: understanding one another, collaborating, and evaluating impact. He addresses the critics and shows more than a correlation of successful students and teachers; DeWitt proves that actively implementing a culture of collective efficacy leads to higher levels of satisfaction, greater impact on students, and successful implementation across the school. This is not only a how to book, but also is grounded firmly in evidence, and a pleasure to read. -- John Hattie * Melbourne, Victoria, Australia *
Insightful and practical-this book is a must read for formal and informal school leaders as well as leadership teams who aspire to improve outcomes for all students. DeWitt combines research and field experience in order to demonstrate specific ways to strengthen commitment, collaboration, and confidence among members of leadership teams in schools. This book is timely, relevant, and an important contribution to the literature on collective efficacy. -- Jenni Donohoo
Instructional leadership teams play a vital role in supporting learning in schools. They are especially important during this time of rapidly changing expectations. In this book, Peter DeWitt applies the theory of collective efficacy to these instructional leadership teams, outlining eight important contributors. Including student councils as part of a school's leadership is a fresh new approach. -- Megan Tschannen-Moran * Williamsburg, VA *
This book will challenge leaders and make a difference for children. It offers a pragmatic, research-based approach to building the collective
efficacy of leaders in all roles in a school with intention and commitment to relationship building, collaboration, data collection, and action research toward measurable outcomes.

The pandemic pivot highlighted the need for collective leader efficacy as foundational and essential in responding to the changing parameters and dynamics of our new reality in education. It will likely never look the same and this is the right focus at the perfect
time.

The skills are built toward the development of a theory of action model logically and on the shoulders of great practitioners and
scholars. The learning, digesting, and applying to practice model is transformative.

The contributors to CLE are clear and built on the foundation of mindset and well-being. In that environment, the other contributors are enhanced. -- Janice White * Troy, NY *
Collective leader efficacy is a new concept that Peter proposes to consider how leadership teams can work together to make a difference in the lives of students. While there are many books on the nature and change of school leadership, this book makes a difference with its practitioner-oriented approach. Not only does it propose a new concept that extends our thinking on leadership towards its collective impact, but it sets out the individual dimensions that shape this practice in a very practical way. For each dimension that contributes to collective leader efficacy, it lays out the theory of change, provides bibliographical resources, guiding questions and activities that educational leaders can use to reflect on how to improve their practice. A very practical resource for educational leaders internationally which is valuable in the current times of uncertainty and change -- Beatriz Pont * Senior Education Policy Analyst, OECD Directorate for Education and Skills, Paris, France *
DeWitt straddles the ground between collective efficacy, instructional leadership, and distributed leadership. The book is packed to the rafters with practical exercises, tools, and protocols that will help you to get (meaningfully) busy at enhancing the learning lives and well-being of children. You will not be handed silver bullets or magic beans, but you will find much to support deep impact. -- Arran Hamilton * Group Director, Education Cognition Education Ltd., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia *
We have known for quite some time that collective teacher efficacy is a powerful influence on student learning. Before we can expect teachers to focus on building their capability though, we first need school leaders and leadership teams that believe that: 1) this is possible; 2) it is their responsibility to nurture, and; 3) have the skills and capabilities to do so. Put simply we need Collective Leader Efficacy! In this book, Peter DeWitt draws upon research and personal practice to create a compelling narrative in support of deliberately and intentionally building collective leader efficacy (CLE). This is a book I will be both referring to and recommending to colleagues well into the future. -- Timothy O'Leary * Former School Leader, Education Consultant *
As a researcher, academic and experienced school leader, DeWitt offers a refreshing approach and insight into leadership in schools. The structure of the chapters takes you on the journey of learning, experience and always draws it back to key questions/reflections and actionable steps.

DeWitt presents models in clear language to meet all busy school leaders. He gets it. He understands the complexities and multiple relationships in schools. This book is highly suitable for any school leader in any country. Many leadership books can leave you inspired but with no idea or time to apply it. This book is different-you will be inspired and empowered to leave with strategies, models, and activities that actually work! -- Anne-Marie Duguid * Director Empowering Education Partnership, London, UK *

About Peter M. DeWitt

Peter M. DeWitt, EdD is a former K-5 teacher (eleven years) and princi pal (eight years). He is a school leader ship coach who runs competency-based workshops and provides keynotes nationally and internationally, focus ing on school leadership (collaborative cultures and instructional leadership), as well as fostering inclusive school climates. Additionally, Peter coaches school-based leaders, directors, instructional coaches, teacher leaders, and school-based leadership teams both in per son and remotely. In summer 2021 Peter created a yearlong on-demand asynchronous coaching course through Thinkific where he has fostered a community of learners that includes K-12 educators in leadership positions. Peter's work has been adopted at the state and university level, and he works with numerous school districts, school boards, regional networks, and ministries of education around North America, Australia, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the UK. Peter writes the Finding Common Ground column for Education Week, which has been in circulation since 2011. In 2020 Peter co-created Education Week's A Seat at the Table series, where he moderates con versations with experts around the topics of race, gender, sexual orienta tion, research, trauma, and many other educational topics. Additionally, Peter is the editor for the Connected Educator series (Corwin) and the Impact series (Corwin), which include books by Viviane Robinson, Andy Hargreaves, Pasi Sahlberg, Yong Zhao, and Michael Fullan. He is the 2013 School Administrators Association of New York State's (SAANYS) Outstanding Educator of the Year and the 2015 Education Blogger of the Year (Academy of Education Arts & Sciences), and he sits on numerous advisory boards. Peter is the author, co-author, or contributor of numerous books, including the following: * Dignity for All: Safeguarding LGBT Students (Corwin, 2012) * School Climate Change (co-authored with Sean Slade; ASCD, 2014) * Flipping Leadership Doesn't Mean Reinventing the Wheel (Corwin, 2014) * Collaborative Leadership: Six Influences That Matter Most (Corwin/Learning Forward, 2016) * School Climate: Leading With Collective Teacher Efficacy (Corwin/Ontario Principals Council, 2017) * Coach It Further: Using the Art of Coaching to Improve School Leadership (Corwin, 2018) * Instructional Leadership: Creating Practice Out of Theory (Corwin, 2020) * 10 Mindframes for Leaders: The Visible Learning Approach to School Success (edited by John Hattie and Ray Smith; Corwin, 2020) * Collective Leader Efficacy: Strengthening the Impact of Instructional Leadership Teams (Corwin/Learning Forward, 2021) Peter's articles have appeared in educational research journals at the state, national, and international level. His books have been translated into four languages. Some of the organizations Peter has worked with are the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), Arkansas State University, EDUTAS, University of Oklahoma, Victoria Department of Education (Australia), University of Rotterdam (Netherlands), Washington Association of School Administrators (WASA), Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA), the National Education Association (NEA), New Brunswick Teacher's Association (Canada), the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), Education Scotland (Scotland), Glasgow City Council (Scotland), Kuwait Technical College (Kuwait), the National Association of School Psychologists, ASCD, l'Association des directions et directions adjointes des ecoles franco-ontariennes (ADFO), the Catholic Principals' Council of Ontario (CPCO), the Ontario Principals' Council (OPC), National School Climate Center, GLSEN, PBS, NPR, BAM Radio Network, ABC, and NBC's Education Nation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments About the Author Foreword by Michael Fullan Vocabulary terms Introduction SECTION I: RESEARCH Chapter 1: Collective Leader Efficacy SECTION II - CONTRIBUTORS FOR COLLECTIVE LEADER EFFICACY Chapter 2: Developing a Leadership Mindset Chapter 3: Mental Health & Wellbeing Chapter 4: Context Beliefs Chapter 5: Working Conditions Chapter 6: Professional Learning and Development Chapter 7: Organizational Commitment Chapter 8: The Skills to Work in Collectives Chapter 9: The Confidence to work in collectives SECTION III - DELIBERATE PRACTICE AND PROCESS Chapter 10: What Components Define an Instructional Core? Chapter 11: Instructional Leadership Team's Cycle of Inquiry Chapter 12 - Focus for Improvement Appendix 1 - Instructional Leadership Team: Request for Inclusion on the Team Appendix 2 - Activity: Cultivating Mindsets of Collaboration Appendix 3 - Weekly Log: Where Do You Spend Your Time? Appendix 4 - Learning Walk Form Appendix 5 - Guiding Questions 1- 4 Appendix 6 - Timetable Checklist Appendix 7 - Purpose Statements 1-3 Appendix 8 - Inquiry Questions 1-3 Appendix 9 - Theories of Action 1-3 Appendix 10 - Theory of Action Evidence Templates Appendix 11 - Blank Template Program Logic Model References

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9781071813720
1071813722
Collective Leader Efficacy: Strengthening Instructional Leadership Teams by Peter M. DeWitt
Peter M. DeWitt
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SAGE Publications Inc
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