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Photo Credits | |
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List of Figures | |
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Foreword | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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About the Authors | |
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Read This First | |
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Our Shared Legacy | |
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A Culture of Isolation and Egalitarianism | |
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The Move Toward Collaboration | |
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Get Ready For Better Teams | |
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Why Teacher Teams? | |
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Why This Book? | |
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Why Cases? | |
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It Isn't Extra Work, It's The Work | |
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What Makes A Good Team, What Makes A Team Good? | |
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Why Teams (Typically) Fail | |
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The Complexities of Collaboration Are Untaught | |
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Effective Teacher Leadership Is Missing | |
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The Need for Expertise Is Ignored or Misunderstood | |
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Pitfalls Are Unrecognized or Poorly Addressed | |
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Team Members Give Up When They Don't Get Along | |
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There Are No Consequences for Poor (Individual or Team) Performance | |
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The Five Conditions of Effective Teacher Teams | |
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Task Focus | |
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Leadership | |
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Collaborative Climate | |
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Personal Accountability | |
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Structures and Processes | |
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Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk: Connecting Curriculum and Instruction | |
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The Importance of Instructional Talk | |
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Connecting Instructional Talk to Classroom Planning and Practice | |
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Promoting Accountability Through Instructional Talk | |
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Using Team Meetings to Improve Instructional Practice | |
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Instructional Leadership: Principals And Teacher Leaders | |
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Throw Out Your Old Org. Chart | |
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The Principal as Instructional Leader | |
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The Principal Articulates a Vision for the School | |
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The Principal Emphasizes the Importance of Collaboration | |
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The Principal Actively Engages in Team Development | |
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Team-Building Tips for Principals | |
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Teacher Leadership | |
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What's a Teacher Leader? | |
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Teacher Leaders in a Team Context | |
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Inside-Outside: Teacher Leaders and Team Leaders | |
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This Could Be the Beginning of a Beautiful Relationship | |
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Team Development And Strategies For Success | |
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We Have to Stop Meeting Like This! | |
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Establish Team Norms | |
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Appoint Specific Roles to Team Members | |
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Acknowledge Team-Meeting "Sore Spots" and Take Steps to Avoid or Cure Them | |
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Learn by Example | |
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Don't Bite Off More Than You Can Chew | |
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Tips and Tools for Maintenance, Survival, and Success | |
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Improve Your Team's Communication Skills | |
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Tine-Tune Your Team's Effectiveness | |
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Move Your Team to Its Next Stage of Development | |
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Get Your New Principal on Board | |
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Connect Your Team With Your School | |
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Leverage Your "What I Know Now" | |
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Teaching Cases | |
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Cases and Guides to Analysis | |
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What the Cases Are About | |
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Case Themes | |
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Video Cases and Their Guides to Analysis | |
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What the Video Cases Are About | |
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Okay, One Last Word | |
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Cases | |
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The Neutral Zone: Handling Interpersonal Dynamics on Teams | |
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Surface Collaboration or Dynamic Interdependence? | |
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Can't Follow the Leader | |
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Good Intentions Aren't Enough | |
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A Principal's Dilemma: The Challenge of Change | |
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How Far We've Come | |
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A Vague Destination, No Compass or Map | |
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The Team That's "Practically Beloved" | |
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References | |
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Index | |
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On Companion CD-ROM | |
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Cases | |
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Is It "Take Us to Our Leader" or "We Can Do It Ourselves"? | |
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Managing From the Middle | |
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On Companion DVD | |
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Video Cases | |
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A 3rd-Grade Team Meets to Examine Student Work | |
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A 5th-Grade Team Meets to Follow Up on a Professional Development Workshop | |
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A 9th-Grade Physics Team Meets to Plan Interventions for Underperforming Students | |
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A High School History Department Meets to Develop Consistent Grading Criteria | |