Foreword
Understand Yourself as a Leader
Focus on Trustworthiness, Visioning Ability, and Communication Style
Action Steps for Improving Your Leadership Skills
My Leadership Strengths
My Leadership Challenges
Celebrating My Strengths
Demonstrate Integrity
Practice Empathy
Be Accessible
Understand the Need for Humility
Conclusion
Action Steps for Building Trust
Find Someone Who
All About You
Connecting Our Thinking
Assemble Different Kinds of Teams
Team Structures
Team Types
Understand and Utilize the Expertise of Others
Ensure Stakeholder Representation
Establish Loose-Tight Leadership
Conclusion
Action Steps for Building and Supporting a Team
Eighty Years of Accomplishments
From Mine to Ours
My Professional Strengths
Team Monitoring
How Can I Help Develop a Vision?
Differentiate Facts From Beliefs
Develop a Shared Vision
Help Teams Commit to the Vision
Develop Common Goals
Conclusion
Action Steps for Beginning to Create a Vision
Facts or Assumptions
Moving From One to All
Identify a Common Vocabulary
Find Common Time
Create Team Tools
Team Agendas
Team Norms
Team Notebooks
Team Products
Focus on Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Curriculum
Instruction
Assessment
Examine Data
Monitor Work
Conclusion
Action Steps for Supporting Collaborative Teams
Team Agenda and Meeting Minutes
Creating Team Norms
