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Building a thriving school team (a step-by-step guide) - Coggle Diagram
Building a thriving school team (a step-by-step guide)
BEFORE taking on the team
hold 1-1 meetings with each team member - get to know them & understand their lives, wishes and what they want for the faculty.
Have a common set of questions & potentially use a survey too
Look at
Rachel's handover notes ASAP
Initial meetings & conceptual planning
plan my opening team meeting
thoroughly
Agree to team vision, values, domain-specific goals with a
clear faculty leader direction given
Write a handbook for the team (avoid overlap?), PD programme, teaching strategies, key calendar moments, deliverables, priorities (SIP termly focus)
Pop into classes in the early days; meeting room hellos; checking-in
Role & task clarity
; fresh start; agreed vision/values/goals,
LEADER PRESENCE & VISION
, clear resourcing, PD, calendar, START, STOP, CONTINUE table
Ensure meetings are
purposeful
and
relevant with a clear timeline & schedule
. Constant believe team can improve. Always
justify my decisions and provide my why & the why to others (connection to vision/mission/goals)
The destination of the school - its success - isn't up for debate. Not everyone will buy in to what we do or say as a leader, which is fine but we need a common agreement.
Don't move too fast - ensure clarity and consensus.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go further, go together
Create enabling conditions
Clear narrative of importance - vision, mission, purpose, why, goals/aims, key foci
Building
adequate time
for uptake & work to be done into the calendar so team time is protected & team meetings are purposeful.
Allocating funds & resources for team PD & materials
Linking teamwork to performance management & PD programmes to improve staff learning & uptake.
Audit staff knowledge & needs
Creating a coaching programme which allows people to grow with a trusted peer/group (Step 9 & HAT roles - opt in but also ask people to step up)
Focus on processes NOT the outcomes. Take care of my team - TRUST THEM & WORK ON HOW THEY IMPROVE
Team reflection & accountability: what worked/didn't work well? What could be improved? Why did it fail/succeed? Where to next?
Agree on timelines; how people should be held to account; tracking meeting agendas & key actions. Helps with accountability - team captains to initiate this.
Celebrate staff -
gratitude exercises & getting to know you exercises
Take on staff feedback.
'You said X, we responded by doing Y'
Other improvements
Subject knowledge curriculum guides, quote analysis guides, YouTube videos, resources, clear bulletin that is sent at the same time weekly with ways to know if staff are reading the bulletin (
after you've read this, send me a pic of...;)
Weekly PD sessions - 'Subject Passion' - after school/in the morning. Later, teams fill out reflection sheet outlining what we already do in this area, and how we could integrate this new learning into our practice.