How do you get staff buy-in?

Preparing Your Team To Succeed

Changing the culture of teaching and learning for every principal, teacher, and student in a school or district is a big step, and providing principals with the tools and resources to engage teachers in this change is the key to creating a sustainable culture of teaching and learning in their schools.

TeachFirst provides the tools to lead teachers to understand the need for change and help school administrators support their staff throughout the change process.

Our Instructional Leadership Series engages school and district administrators, teachers and other staff members in an intensive, hands-on experience around change, and demonstrates what effective teaching and learning really looks like.

In these highly interactive, activity-based sessions, administrators learn how to help their staff members define the root causes of student failure, recognize effective instruction, and create school environments that support both teacher and student learning. School administrators return to their schools armed with specific activities and resources to lead staff through a three-stage process:

In this session participants learn to:

• “Put a face to the data”
• View ”success” and “failure” from a student perspective
• Differentiate root causes of student failure from symptoms

In this session participants learn to:

• Review new teacher observation methods – are we looking for the right things?
• Analyze school structures that impact student learning
• Create a shared language for success

In this session participants learn to:

• Create a school culture that supports both teacher and student learning
• Identify effective, strategic, and integrated professional development
• Shift thinking from “why we can’t” to “how we can”