Table of Contents
Jump in using the links below, or read more about this guide and how to use it and an overview of each of the five stages below.-
Stage One: Forming
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Stage Two: Storming
- Developing a design team
- Determining a collaborative leadership model
- Designing how students will learn
- Deciding how teachers will collegially manage the school
- Creating a high-performance culture
- Developing a shared purpose
- Deciding whether to formally organize the teacher team
- Determining an approach to teacher evaluation and tenure
- Ensuring the teacher-powered team is a community of learners
- Defining budgeting processes and priorities
- Creating a strategy for attracting families
- Seeking external support
- Pursuing autonomy and approval for your teacher-powered school
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Stage Three: Norming
- Developing personnel processes
- Improving how your team’s shared purpose is used in decision making
- Cultivating skills and dispositions for evaluating colleagues
- Refining skills for working in a collaborative leadership model
- Creating and refining a process for assessing school performance
- Learning skills for working unconventionally
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Stage Four: Performing
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Stage Five: Transforming
