Intentional Moves: How Skillful Team Leaders Impact Learning - Softcover

MacDonald, Elisa B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1506392849 ISBN 13: 9781506392844

Publisher: Corwin, 2022

Synopsis

For maximum impact, let intention drive your actions.

Leading a team means more than running meetings. It’s leading collaborative learning for continuous improvement. Like effective teachers in the classroom, skillful team leaders decide what they are aiming to achieve and make small, intentional moves to produce powerful learning outcomes for teachers and students. 

In this long-awaited follow-up to her best-selling book, The Skillful Team Leader, acclaimed educator Elisa MacDonald presents nearly 150 effective moves, organized by intention, for any educator who leads a team.

In this book, you′ll find strategies to lead with purpose and direction, including how to:

• foster an inclusive environment and strengthen team trust
• interrupt bias and cultivate diverse perspectives
• navigate resistance and manage conflict
• facilitate data analysis
• lead peer observation
• assess your team’s collaboration

and so much more!

Written in a practitioner-friendly format with a light tone and relatable stories, this is a must-have book for all team leaders and those who support them in your school.

About this title

About the Author

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. As 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

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1506392849
• ISBN 13: 9781506392844
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 504