The Teacher Team Leader Handbook: Simple Habits to Transform Collaboration in a PLC at Work

Education expert and award-winning researcher Chad Dumas provides teacher team leaders with clarity on their role and approach, accompanied by actions that help teams get started, gain momentum, overcome obstacles, and refine skills that maximise their effectiveness in professional learning communities. Uncover the responsibilities, assumptions, and mindsets of effective teacher team leaders, and utilise forty simple, go-to moves, techniques, and strategies that will transform team collaboration.

K–12 teacher team leaders can rely on this handbook to:

• Understand the three key responsibilities of the team leader in a PLC
• Cultivate assumptions and mindsets for successful team collaboration
• Utilise tools to implement simple actions that transform team functioning
• Reflect on their progress and determine future action steps
• Address common challenges that impede their effectiveness