School Climate

Leading with Collective Efficacy
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5063-8599-0
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Build a positive school climate to impact students, teachers, and the community!



Is improving school climate on your to-do list? Do you think about it as a top-down directive or as a dialogue to build equity within the school? A healthy school environment should never be seen as an option, but instead supported as a must-have.



Peter DeWitt offers leaders practical high impact strategies to improve school climate, deepen involvement in student learning, and engage a broader family network. In addition to international vignettes focused on community stakeholders and research-based practices, this book features tools such as:

• A leadership growth cycle to help leaders build their self-efficacy

• A teacher observation cycle centered on building collective efficacy

• An early warning system to identify potential at-risk students

• Action steps following each chapter to apply to your own setting

• Discussion questions for use in team environments



Establishing a supportive and inclusive school climate where professionals can take risks to improve the lives of students is vital to maximize learning in any school community.




"This is a fabulous book by a renowned expert in the field of leadership. Peter DeWitt explains the complex and credible in a way that is thought-provoking, challenging and inspiring. I love how he gives insights in what successful collaborative leadership is and shows how we can all build our skills and mindset for leading towards collective efficacy."

—James Nottingham, Challenging Learning author and creator of #TheLearningPit

JN Partnership LTD, Northumberland, United Kingdom

Autoren/Hrsg.

DeWitt, Peter M

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction: A Tale of Two Leaders
Meet Tim
Meet Trudy
Leadership and School Climate
Chapter 1. What Is Collaborative Leadership?
The Hattie Effect
The Importance of Self-Efficacy
In Pursuit of Collaboration
What the Research Says
Collaborative Leadership Framework
Collaborative Leadership Growth Cycle
In the End
Chapter 2. School Climate: Setting Up a Safe Space to Collaborate
Why Does School Climate Matter?
Collaborative Leadership Framework for Teachers
Solving the Issues: Collaboration in Action
In the End
Chapter 3. Climate Change: Raising Student Self-Efficacy
Social-Emotional Learning
Minoritized Populations
The Early Warning System (EWS)
Using the Early Warning System
A Warning About the EWS
In the End
Chapter 4. Increasing Teacher Self-Efficacy
The Cycle of Collaborative Teacher Observation: A Review
Professional Learning and Development (PLD)
Teacher Leaders and School Climate
Building Collective Efficacy Through Collaborative Inquiry
Classroom Climate
In the End
Chapter 5. Building Collective Efficacy With Families
What Do We Expect From Families?
Family Engagement Communication
Do We Openly Listen to Families?
In the End
Chapter 6. Building Our Own Self-Efficacy
A Tale of Two Leaders
What’s Your Mindset?
How Do Leaders Increase Their Own Self-Efficacy?
In the End
Appendix
Collaborative Leadership Reflection Tool
Faculty Meeting Exit Ticket
Teacher Efficacy Scale (Short Form)
Collective Teacher Efficacy Scale
Leadership Self-Efficacy Scale
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

DeWitt, Peter M
Peter DeWitt (Ed.D) is the founder and CEO of the Instructional Leadership Collective. He was a K-5 teacher for 11 years and a principal for 8 years. For the last 10 years, he has been facilitating professional learning nationally, and internationally, based on the content of many of his best-selling educational books.

DeWitt's professional learning relationships are a monthly hybrid approach that includes both coaching and the facilitating workshops on instructional leadership and collective efficacy.
Additionally, in the Summer of 2021, DeWitt created a year long on-demand, asynchronous coaching course through Thinkific where he has created a community of learners that include k-12 educators in leadership positions.

DeWitt's work has been adopted at the state level, university level, and he works with numerous school districts, school boards, regional networks, ministries of education around North America, Australia, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the U.K.

Peter writes the Finding Common Ground column for Education Week, which has been in circulation since 2011. In 2020 DeWitt co-created Education Week's A Seat At the Table where he moderates conversations with experts around the topics of race, gender, sexual orientation, research, trauma and many other educational topics.

Additionally, DeWitt is the Series Editor for the Connected Educator Series (Corwin Press) and the Impact Series (Corwin Press) that 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 sits on numerous advisory boards.


Peter is the author, co-author or contributor of numerous books. Click on title to purchase. They include:

Dignity for All: Safeguarding LGBT Students (Corwin Press. 2012).



Flipping Leadership Doesn't Mean Reinventing the Wheel (Corwin Press. 2014)



Collaborative Leadership: 6 Influences That Matter Most (Corwin Press/Learning Forward).



School Climate: Leading With Collective Teacher Efficacy (Corwin Press/ Ontario Principals Council. 2017).
Coach It Further: Using the Art of Coaching to Improve School Leadership (Corwin Press. 2018).



Instructional Leadership: Creating Practice Out Of Theory (Corwin Press. 2020).



Collective Leader Efficacy: Strengthening the Impact of Instructional Leadership Teams (Corwin Press. Learning Forward. 2021).



De-implementation: Creating the Space to Focus on What Works (Corwin Press. 2022).



Leading with Intention - Developing self-awareness to fostering an unreasonable human interconnectedness to impact the school community (co-authored with Michael Nelson. Corwin Press. 2024).



Peter's articles have appeared in educational research journals at the state, national and international level. His books have been translated into numerous languages.


Some of the organizations Peter has worked with are the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), Learning Forward, National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), University of Oklahoma, Cognition Education (New Zealand), Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL), 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 écoles franco-ontariennes (ADFO), the Catholic Principals’ Council of Ontario (CPCO), and the Ontario Principals’ Council (OPC), National School Climate Center, GLSEN, PBS, NPR, BAM Radio Network, ABC, and NBC's Education Nation.

Learn more about bringing Peter DeWitt to your school or district at petermdewitt.com