Leading Change
Through Teams

Our Guiding Principles

In order to become a learning organization, we believe sharing information is a vital practice. Teams often get bogged down in determining the right size, the right audience, and the right time for sharing information. By developing district and school-wide systems for sharing information we can find new ways to increase alignment and collaboration across the organization. Through our work together, we will co-design teaming practices that are centered around the following:

• Planning: We will build responsiveness into plans, with integrated opportunities to reflect, refine, and adjust to keep progressing toward strategic goals.
• Teaming: We will define new ground rules for how to align on purpose, how to share authority, and how to structure team meetings across the district.
• Managing Roles: We will reimagine the different roles, accountabilities, and people to change how the work gets done within and across teams in the district.
• Communicating: We will map out a communications plan to maximize transparency and accountability among all members of the community.
• Decision Making: We will rethink our systems for sharing information and find new ways to increase alignment and collaboration across the district.

Education Elements will host virtual strategy sessions, deliver onsite sessions and check in through regular support calls. These touchpoints will provide development opportunities and model progress monitoring sessions, with the goal of enabling the district and school leaders to lead more effective meetings moving forward and strategically implement and monitor plans.