Key Points from Collaborative Leading Well Book Study EC-5

Staff and Administration came together for another week of the Leading Well book study.  The following are key quotes that the team identified.  Take a moment to read and reflect on the key quotes and consider how your team/school exemplify the practice.    

  

If you establish a schoolwide approach to teaching writing, all your teachers - - not just your first- year teachers, . . will benefit from standing on each other's shoulders.

When messing up on something that's hard is not okay, when failures along the way are not okay, then you can forget about your school being a place where teacher or kids innovate and learn.

In this school we don’t teach alone. We collaborate. The work is too challenging for any one of us to be an expert in everything, and we all get smarter and stronger when we borrow each other’s ideas.

The single most important characteristic of an effective school is that teachers work collaboratively.

Teachers are now being asked to teach kids skills that we didn't learn until college.

People's learning curves will never be sky-high if they don't feel safe enough to take risks, to try something new, to admit confusion, to ask for help.

The more insecure you feel and the more transparent you are about that - the better.

In this school, we don't teach alone. We collaborate. The work is too challenging for any one of us to be an expert in everything, and we all get smarter and stronger.

We need to hold ourselves to the same behaviors we teach our students.

SINGLE most important characteristic of an effective school is that teachers work collaboratively

Intelligence needs to be socialized.

Too often, we brace ourselves against seeming vulnerable... we don't want to let others especially our colleagues and our leaders know that we are sometimes not sure how to do something.