Transforming Ineffective Teams: Maximizing Collaboration's Impact on Learning: The Skillful Leader II

The Skillful Leader II: Confronting Conditions That Undermine Learning ISBN: 978-1886822115 has been reissued under the title Transforming Ineffective Teams: Maximizing Collaboration's Impact on Learning to better reflect the content of the book.

This important book in The Skillful Leader series arms administrators and teacher leaders with step-by-step strategies to confront and raise the performance of teams and individuals who undermine student learning. The text includes methods of collecting data, strategies for intervention, and tips for hiring and training. Individual and community profiles, together with legal notes, provide practical tools for busy leaders.

Alexander D. Platt, Ed.D.
Alexander (Andy) Platt is a founding and senior consultant with Boston-based consulting firm Research for Better Teaching (RBT). In 2000, while he continued to be affiliated with RBT, he founded Ready About Consulting, dedicated to working with leaders of underperforming schools. He is the lead author of the other two books in the best-selling Skillful Leader series: Confronting Mediocre Teaching and Strengthening Teacher Evaluation. He specializes in coaching urban leaders on raising the quality of instruction through supervision and evaluation. Over his 35-year career, he has developed numerous long-term relationships with client districts and has taught courses to over 2,000 administrators in the United States, Europe, and Japan.

Caroline E. Tripp, Ed.D.

Caroline Tripp is also a senior consultant with Research for Better Teaching (RBT). A co-author of the other two books in the Skillful Leader series, she has spent more than 20 years training and supporting district and school-site leaders across the country. She specializes in long-term district development work that includes the design and implementation of supervision and evaluation systems for teachers and administrators, building effective leadership teams at all levels, training evaluators, and supporting the development of new administrators. She has presented nationally on a wide range of topics related to teacher quality and leadership development. Dr. Tripp served as the Director of Curriculum and Training for RBT's 10-year joint project on workplace excellence with the Montgomery County (MD) Public Schools. She was formerly a faculty member of the Boston Principal Fellows Program and Assistant Superintendent of the Shrewsbury, MA, Public Schools.