Empowered Teams
About empowered teams
Collaborating Differently
CEC knows that the predictors with the highest likelihood of success in schools are:
- The effectiveness of the adults working together.
- The quality of the school culture.
- Teacher teams spend time on high-leverage collaboration.
When school staff employ a learner-centered mindset across critical practice areas, good things happen! High-leverage teams collaborate and make shared decisions to increase student growth. The design of CEC’s Empowered Teams program provides tools, protocols, and processes for the adults in a school system to identify collective solutions around the whole child.
A Proven Process
This professional learning experience aims to build sustainable leadership for high-leverage teacher teams at school sites. This learning is centered around three modules:
- Focus on Collaboration – predictable structures for school-based collaborative teams and teacher-level teams
- Focus on Learning – the capacity of these teams to effectively analyze triangulated data to advance high-rigor learning and instructional strategies for all students
- Focus on Results – shared accountability practices to monitor data and modify strategies continuously
Building Leadership Capacity
CEC’s end outcome is to increase the key leader(s)’s (principal, assistant principal, teacher leader) capacity to orchestrate equitable, inclusive practices and decision-making processes that lead to more students reaching their full potential. The focus of this service is on enhancing the leadership skills of all those involved regardless of job role, but with special attention being made to the site leader(s) so they can empower teachers to own the work. We have aligned our sessions to the learning-centered leadership framework Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education (VAL ED). VAL ED is nationally recognized and normed to ISLLC Standards and reflects leadership centered on inclusive and equitable practices for school leaders.
CEC’s Empowered Teams Process
Effective teams continuously collaborate for increased student growth. The purpose of this Professional Learning experience is to begin by developing district or school-based collaborative teams and team structures. We then build the capacity of these teams to collaboratively and effectively analyze data in order to determine goals (GANS, Greatest Area Of Need) and targets then identify research-based strategies to address goal areas using the DIAS (Data-Informed Plan, Implement, Analyze, Systematize) cycle. These collaborative teams will then learn to monitor data continuously and modify strategies as needed.
This service is configured to support District (DLT), School (SLT), and Teacher (Teacher) teams in a school system.
Empowered Teams Resources
Empowering Educational Excellence: The Transformative Impact of a Results-Driven Team
CEC shares how school leadership teams that are effective and empowered play a pivotal role in enhancing student outcomes. Read the article.
Building a Strong Mindset in Students
This case study outlines how Hedges Elementary School, with the help of CEC, was able to identify challenges in creating and executing a strong school improvement process. Hedges uncovered that the path to improvement begins with leadership and instilling strong practices within teachers helps set the tone for the future.
This brochure details how CEC’s Empowered Teams program provides the tools, protocols, and processes for the adults in a school to identify and implement a highly effective solution around the whole child, and build a system of collective ownership and collective responsibility for the success of every student.
“Working with CEC on developing Empowered Teams has allowed us to become fully aligned and can now better collaborate to meet students’ needs.”
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