How did one of the lowest-performing and most dysfunctional school districts in California become a top turnaround district? It all came down to one thing: building collective team efficacy. Through the support and guidance of this resource, you will reflect, find parallels to your own story, and apply the real-world lessons learned at Sanger Unified to the school community you serve.
- Understand how collective team efficacy is crucial for organizational improvement.
- Study the research and real-world examples that support the strategies and concepts introduced in the book.
- Learn how to define a team's purpose and a school's vision in a way that builds a foundation for a strong professional learning community (PLC).
- Review challenges to collaboration, and discover strategies to combat these threats.
- Examine the Theory of Action model to assess and build collective team efficacy.
Contents:
About the Authors
Introduction
Chapter 1: Building Culture to Enhance Collective Efficacy
Chapter 2: Building Purpose to Enhance Collective Efficacy
Chapter 3: Building Vision to Enhance Collective Efficacy
Chapter 4: Building Belief and Accountability to Enhance Collective Efficacy
Chapter 5: Building Autonomy to Enhance Collective Efficacy
Chapter 6: Building Collaboration to Enhance Collective Efficacy
Chapter 7: From Paradoxes, Research, and Leadership Lessons to a Theory of Action--Building Collective Team Efficacy
Epilogue
Appendix
References and Resources
Matt Navo is director of systems transformation at WestEd, for the Center for Prevention and Early Intervention. He helps districts and schools develop strategies, structures, policies, and practices that assist in closing the achievement gap for all students.
Matt specializes in aligning systems for building capacity and continuous improvement and in building collaborative cultures and establishing coherent and efficient systems for closing the achievement gap. He also works with the National Center for Systemic Improvement (NCSI), working with state education departments and local district leaders on building improvement methodologies and continuous-improvement frameworks.
Matt has experience as a special education elementary and secondary teacher, counselor, resource teacher, junior high learning director, high school assistant principal, elementary principal, alternative education principal, director of special education, area administrator, and superintendent. He was the governor's appointee for the Advisory Commission on Special Education (ACSE) from 2014 to 2016 and the governor's appointee to the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (CCEE) from 2016 to 2017. He is the governor's 2019 appointee for the California State Board of Education and the CCEE.
Matt has been a keynote speaker at numerous conferences on system improvement across the state of California and was a contributor to the ONE SYSTEM: Reforming Education to Serve All Students--Report of California's Statewide Task Force on Special Education in 2015. As superintendent, Matt's school district was highlighted for various achievements, such as Process and Protest--California: How Are Districts Engaging Stakeholders in LCAP Development?, and as a California District of Distinction in 2018.
Jared J. Savage is the principal of Fairmont Elementary School (TK-8), in the nationally recognized, award-winning Sanger Unified School District (SUSD) in California. Savage's early experience includes playing football collegiately at Fresno State and an initial appetite to pursue a coaching career, which quickly transitioned to coaching teams of practitioners in education. Savage has worked in education as a teacher, coach, counselor, guidance learning specialist, assistant principal, and principal. His educational experiences include working from the elementary to secondary levels and building programs to support alternative education and foster care youth in Fresno County, California.
Savage specializes in synergizing teams of practitioners, with a focus on breaking the barriers of traditional mindsets and building championship school culture. Savage has used a coaching philosophy centered around building collective team efficacy to challenge and move teams within SUSD. Instituting fierce belief systems through shared leadership has been the hallmark of Savage's work to date.
Teams led by Savage have received multiple honors, including designations as a Solution Tree Model PLC School and the National Forum Schools to Watch Redesignation (received twice); and have received the California School Boards Association (CSBA) Golden Bell Award for Closing the Achievement Gap, the California Gold Ribbon, and the California PBIS Platinum Level Award for Fresno County.
