Leadership Team Best Practices

When is the ideal time for a school principal to determine the membership for a leadership team ?

• The first day of the school year
• Ask for volunteers on September 1
• Prior to the start of the new school year
• January 1

The membership of the Leadership Team should include which of the following:

• parents 
• key teachers with a wide lens and good understanding of school system goals, all administrators at the school, and the Director of School Performance
• only the admin team
• any staff members who wants to participate

The membership of the Leadership Team should include which of the following:

• parents 
• key teachers with a wide lens and good understanding of school system goals, all administrators at the school, and the Director of School Performance
• only the admin team
• any staff members who wants to participate

Leadership team meetings are held weekly and are cancelled only when:

• the principal is out of the building
• there is a forecast of snow
• it's Grandparents Day
• schools are closed for everyone. When the principal is out of the building, the principal's designee facilities the meeting

Binders are essential for each member of the leadership team so that:

• agendas, minutes, notes, data reports, etc. can be kept in an organized fashion and available during each meeting for reference and to share important information (when needed or requested) with teachers who are not on the leadership team.
• members who are forgetful will have note paper
• the secretary will have something to do over the summer
• we can reference the SIP at any time

The agenda for weekly Leadership Team meetings should be 

• sent electronically the morning of the meeting
• sent electronically two days before the meeting so that members can prepare. Paper copies should be made for all members and placed on the conference table prior to the meeting so all members can take their own notes regarding follow up actions needed before the next meeting. 
• eliminated to save time, energy and paper
• sent to members via US mail

The purpose of leadership team meetings is to 

• bring everyone up to date about what's going on in the community
• review calendar items
• give the principal an hour to talk to key people in the school
• focus on two questions:
  What evidence do we have to show that all students are learning?
  What evidence to we have to show that we are building teacher capacity through our intentional PD?