Collective Leader Efficacy: Strengthening Instructional Leadership Teams 

February 7, 2023

8:30am – 3:00pm

Illinois Administrator Academy # 3807 –  Leadership and Learning: Implementing a Change Process

 

Peter Dewitt, Presenter

Peter DeWitt (Ed.D) is a former K-5 teacher (11 years) and principal (8 years). He is a school leadership coach and author of many best-selling educational books, who runs competency-based workshops and provides keynotes nationally and internationally focusing on school leadership (collaborative cultures and instructional leadership), as well as, fostering inclusive school climates. 

Additionally, Peter coaches school-based leaders, directors, instructional coaches and teacher leaders as well as school-based leadership teams both in-person and remotely. In the Summer of 2021, DeWitt created a year long on-demand, asynchronous coaching course through Thinkific where he has created a community of learners that include k-12 educators in leadership positions. 

DeWitt’s work has been adopted at the state level, university level, and he works with numerous school districts, school boards, regional networks, ministries of education around North America, Australia, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the U.K.

For more info go to: https://petermdewitt.com/bio

 

Collective Leader Efficacy: Strengthening Instructional Leadership Teams 

Collective leader efficacy (CLE) is a shared conviction among a school leadership team that they  can improve the learning environment for all students. Unfortunately, many school leadership  teams lack that conviction because they never took time to be intentional about their focus. In  this presentation, Peter DeWitt, E.D. provides the research, explains the drivers, and engages  participants in the cycle of inquiry that will help leadership teams develop collective leader  efficacy as a leadership team.  

 

Participant outcomes: 

• Define collective leader efficacy (CLE) 
• Develop an understanding of how leadership teams should function 
• Define certain drivers necessary to develop collective leader efficacy as a team 
• Engage in a cycle of inquiry where they can define a theory of action 
• Develop a program logic model to help them plan actionable steps 

Outline 

• Dare to Disagree
• beliefs about students, learning or school
• Research focusing on collective leader efficacy 
• Participants will commit to 3 drivers, 2 roles and 1 goal 
• 8 drivers for instructional leadership team development 
• Roles for team clarity 
• The cycle of inquiry 
  • • Develop a goal 
    • Explore how your school focuses on that goal already 
    • Inquire 
    • Plan for implementation 
    • Implement – 3 actions to take immediately  
    • Reflect – Evaluate impact

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Book, Collective Leader Efficacy is included with the registration fee.  Every participant (In-Person and Live-Stream) will have their book shipped to each participant’s address.