Dream Team: A Practical Playbook to Help Innovative Educators Change Schools
The world needs great individual educational changemakers capable of identifying problems and creating bold, scalable solutions. But the world also needs Dream Teams—groups of talented administrators, teachers, staff, students, and community members who are passionate about making things better for kids, believe that school-based change is the means to this end, and are willing to roll up their sleeves and work together to achieve it. This book is for Dream Teams in the making.
Innovative educators come in all forms, and they require lots of options. Here, you’ll find a collection of practical ideas and tools designed to fuel transformational leadership without sacrificing instructional excellence or anyone’s sanity.
Key Features
- Models and methods of 10 brilliant leadership teams at urban, suburban, and rural schools in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
- Specific, sometimes audacious advice for navigating the Change Leader Journey.
- Tools to fuel transformational leadership while maintaining instructional excellence.
- Flexible approach to help build a collaborative and creative culture.
Additional Information
Informed by these successes, the authors provide specific, sometimes audacious advice for navigating what they call the Change Leader Journey: how to move from Dream Team assembly and problem analysis all the way through to solution generation, piloting, promotion, and evaluation.
Whether your team is a group of fearless rebels, more cautious types, or somewhere in between, Tait and Faulkner’s flexible approach can help you figure out where you want your school to go, build a more collaborative and creative culture, and generate the solutions that best serve your students.
