A collection of articles from Harvard Business Review, these resources address how team leaders can create high-performing teams.
Leading Successful Teams
Teacher leaders can learn from other professions about how to successfully lead teams, as few resources focus on teachers leading teams while staying in the classroom. Included here are resources focused on teachers and general resources on leading teams.
General Resources
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This leadership book provides techniques on understanding what type of help is needed and how to offer it in professional relationships, which can be applied to teaching, teamwork, and organizational... Read more »
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This Harvard Business Review article by the authors of The Wisdom of Teams defines a team, noting that not every group is a team, and the three types of teams.
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The author of this book writes a fictional account of a troubled Silicon Valley firm in order to illustrate the five behaviors that he believes limit team success: absence of trust, fear of conflict... Read more »
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This classic book on the power of teams emphasizes a results-oriented approach to team leadership. According to the authors, teams respond more effectively to specific performance expectations than... Read more »
Leading Teacher Teams
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After observing teacher leaders lead several hours of professional learning with their colleagues, the authors of this article report on their findings regarding effective strategies that teacher... Read more »
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This book about how to successfully negotiate a coteaching relationship includes several strategies that are relevant for teacher leaders.
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Through a series of case studies as well as protocols for analyzing the cases, the authors of this book about leading teacher teams provide detailed information about various strategies that they... Read more »
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The Skillful Team Leader: A Resource for Overcoming Hurdles to Professional Learning for Student Achievement
This book by the director of teacher leader development at Teach Plus focuses on solutions for teacher leaders to common problems they may encounter in building a team that improves student learning.
