Building and Leading Professional Teams in Your School
Learn to build, participate in, and lead effective professional teams — grade-level teams, department teams, intervention teams, student support teams, and cross-functional committees — using research on team effectiveness, meeting design, distributed leadership, and the specific dynamics that make school teams succeed or fail. Move from 'meetings we have to attend' to 'teams that make our teaching better.'
What you'll walk away with
Design team meetings with clear purpose, time-boxed protocols, and explicit decision-making and accountability structures
Build psychological safety in professional teams using specific, observable leadership behaviours
Facilitate productive team conflict that improves decisions without damaging relationships
Implement distributed leadership structures where team ownership and responsibility are genuinely shared
How a Learning Series works
Work through the snacks — short, evidence-based lessons that build your understanding. Each one gives you research, a classroom connection, and one thing to try or discuss.
Test your understanding in a low-stakes mini-experiment before you bring it to your classroom. Leverage our downloadable materials to support you in your teaching and classroom practice and let us know how it goes!
For credit towards an Accingo Course certificate, try something from this series in your own classroom, then complete a short, structured reflection on what you learned and what you would bring to your PLC and/or regular practice. You will see "Application Artifact" if required.
