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Entrenched beliefs are often a large barrier to improvement efforts in schools. One misguided belief, commonly held amongst educators, is that they lack the collective capability to impact the lives of their students over and above the influence of students’ homes and communities. Jenni facilitates sessions designed to dispel this myth by helping educators think differently about the impact they can have on student outcomes and equipping them with the tools, strategies, and protocols to engage in powerful professional learning.
ENABLING CONDITIONS-COLLECTIVE
TEACHER EFFICACY
SURVEY (EC-CTES)
Research (Donohoo, O’Leary, & Hattie, 2020) has identified the powerful contextual factors that help strengthen collective teacher efficacy. These include empowered teachers, embedded reflective practices, consensus on goals, cohesive teacher knowledge, and supportive leadership. This online survey measures the antecedents of collective efficacy for the purpose of providing direction for school leaders to focus their improvement efforts.
VIRTUAL AND/OR
IN-PERSON SESSIONS
TOPIC: STRENGTHENING COLLECTIVE EFFICACY IN SCHOOLS
What if your greatest strength as an educator lies not in what you can do alone, but in what you can achieve together? Collective efficacy—the shared belief in a team’s combined ability to make a difference—is the number one factor that matters most in raising student achievement. It’s the spark that ignites when educators come together, confident in their collective capability to help students master complex content, unleash their creativity, and believe in their own potential. During this keynote, you’ll discover why this concept is so crucial and how it empowers educators to overcome challenges, bridge inequities, and achieve goals that once seemed out of reach. Together, we’ll reimagine what's possible when educators unite with a shared purpose and an unwavering belief in their collective potential to change lives.
ONE OR TWO-DAY INSTITUTES
To realize improved outcomes, educators must perceive themselves to be capable of meeting the needs of all students in ways that will result in better performance and increased achievement. Collective efficacy is the shared conviction that educators make a significant contribution in raising student achievement despite other factors in students’ lives that might pose challenges to their success. The Institutes are designed to provide the foundation for understanding collective efficacy, its impact on student achievement, and the positive consequences associated with it. Most importantly, participants will learn about a model for leading collective efficacy in schools and determine actions to take to foster a stronger sense of efficacy.
PARTICIPANTS WILL BE ABLE TO:
· Define and provide examples of collective efficacy.
· Name and describe productive patterns of behavior and other positive consequences that result from a shared sense of efficacy.
· Define and provide examples sources that influence collective efficacy beliefs.
· Describe five enabling conditions identified through research as antecedents of collective teacher efficacy.
· Determine ways to strengthen collaboration and foster efficacy through the sources and enabling conditions.
ADDITIONAL WORKSHOPS
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GOAL CONSENSUS: Building Shared Purpose for Student Success
BUILDING TEACHER AGENCY: From Involvement to Empowerment
THE POWER OF JOINT WORK: Transforming Teacher Collaboration for Student Success
OVERCOMING THE ENEMIES OF EFFICIENCY
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DEVELOPING STUDENT SELF-EFFICACY
BUILDING COLLECTIVE TEACHER EFFICACY THROUGH STRATEGIC FEEDBACK AND COLLABORATIVE DIALOGUE
BUILDING TEACHER LEADERSHIP THROUGH JOINT WORK:
From Collaboration
to Collective Impact
8 ADDITIONAL IN-PERSON WORKSHOP OPTIONS
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GOAL CONSENSUS: Building Shared Purpose for Student Success
Research shows that consensus on goals is strongly correlated with collective teacher efficacy. This session explores how to develop meaningful, SHARED GOALS that drive improvement in schools. Participants will learn how proximal, interdependent, and mastery goals can enhance team effectiveness and student outcomes.
PARTICIPANTS
WILL BE ABLE TO:
· Distinguish between individual, interdependent, performance, and mastery goals.
· Create short-term goals that provide meaningful efficacy information.
· Apply strategies for building consensus around shared goals.
· Identify leadership practices that help teams progress toward and celebrate goal achievement.
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BUILDING TEACHER AGENCY: From Involvement to Empowerment
TEACHER EMPOWERMENT is crucial for sustainable school improvement and collective efficacy. This session examines how authentic teacher leadership opportunities and meaningful involvement in decision-making strengthen collective beliefs about improving student achievement. Using the Ladder of Teacher Involvement framework, participants will explore different levels of teacher participation and learn how to create conditions that foster genuine teacher empowerment.
PARTICIPANTS
WILL BE ABLE TO:
· Analyze different levels of teacher involvement using a Ladder of Teacher Involvement in School Decision-Making Framework.
· Identify organizational conditions necessary for effective teacher leadership.
· Design authentic opportunities for teacher decision-making and leadership.
· Create clear roles and responsibilities that support teacher empowerment while avoiding burnout.
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THE POWER OF JOINT WORK: Transforming Teacher Collaboration for Student Success
What if the key to unlocking student potential lies not in individual teacher expertise, but in how teachers work together? In this session, we’ll explore the transformative power of JOINT WORK in education. Drawing from extensive research and real-world examples, we’ll delve into how fostering true interdependence among teachers can dramatically improve both teacher practice and student outcomes.
PARTICIPANTS
WILL BE ABLE TO:
· Explain the difference between typical collaboration and joint work.
· Determine how goal and task interdependence create powerful learning environments.
· Identify protocols that can be used to strengthen professional learning and foster collective teacher efficacy.
· Identify actionable steps they can take to begin fostering joint work in their school.
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MIND YOUR MINDSET
As educators, our own beliefs about our abilities and potential can greatly impact our effectiveness in the classroom and our professional growth. In this session, participants will learn practical strategies to CULTIVATE MINDSETS for improvement. We’ll explore how to reframe challenges as opportunities, provide constructive feedback that promotes learning and resilience, and create a supportive professional culture that fosters effort, progress, and growth. Participants will engage in reflective exercises and collaborative discussions to examine their own mindset and learn how to encourage a growth mindset amongst team members.
PARTICIPANTS
WILL BE ABLE TO:
· Recognize ‘out there’ versus ‘in here’ thinking and how educators get stuck in unhelpful stories.
· Recognize how mindsets influence behavior and outcomes.
· Gain a deeper understanding of mindsets for improvement.
· Practice practical strategies for checking assumptions, biases, and cultivating a growth mindset with colleagues.
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OVERCOMING THE ENEMIES OF EFFICIENCY
What are enemies that prevent efficacy from developing and how can school leaders use ‘micro-moves’ to prevent the enemies from derailing their improvement work? Collective teacher efficacy is a significant belief system that impacts student outcomes. According to the Visible Learning Research, it’s the number one factor in raising student achievement. To ensure that collective efficacy remains strong in schools, it’s important to understand what influences a team’s beliefs about what they can accomplish. It’s important to know what strengthens efficacy and factors that weaken it. During this session, participants will learn about the ‘enemies of efficacy’ and describe ways to overcome them in today’s schools.
PARTICIPANTS
WILL BE ABLE TO:
· Describe the relationship between collective teacher efficacy and people’s receptiveness to change.
· Identify things that hinder the development of collective teacher efficacy.
· Describe strategies for overcoming the enemies of efficacy.
· Determine how, when, and why to utilize various strategies for overcoming the enemies of efficacy.
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DEVELOPING STUDENT
SELF-EFFICACY
Self-efficacy refers to students’ beliefs in their ability to succeed in specific tasks or situations. This mindset significantly impacts their approach to learning and academic challenges. In this session, participants will learn how self-efficacy shapes students’ learning experiences, the contrast between high and low self-efficacy behaviors, and practical strategies to boost students’ confidence in their abilities. Together we will explore how to transform self-doubt into self-assurance, helping your students become more confident, motivated, and persistent learners.
PARTICIPANTS
WILL BE ABLE TO:
· Identify at least three specific behavioral indicators that distinguish high self-efficacy from low self-efficacy in students (e.g., task approach, response to setbacks, goal-setting patterns).
· Understand the sources that influence student efficacy-beliefs and identify ways to incorporate sources into learning activities and structured feedback.
· Identify research-based strategies to help increase student self-efficacy.
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BUILDING COLLECTIVE TEACHER EFFICACY THROUGH STRATEGIC FEEDBACK AND COLLABORATIVE DIALOGUE
This interactive workshop explores how school leaders can harness the power of feedback to build collective teacher efficacy. Participants will examine how strategic feedback processes can transform professional conversations into catalysts for collective growth and student achievement. School leaders will learn practical strategies for separating evaluative feedback from coaching feedback and understand ways to use feedback to develop individual and collective teacher efficacy. Leaders will leave with practical strategies for delivering feedback that builds, rather than diminishes, collective efficacy, understanding how their words and actions can significantly impact teachers' beliefs about their collective capability to impact student learning.
PARTICIPANTS
WILL BE ABLE TO:
· Determine strategies for providing growth-oriented feedback that builds collective confidence and capability among their staff teams.
· Differentiate between evaluative and coaching feedback approaches to ensure clarity of purpose in professional conversations.
· Identify principles that make feedback more effective and determine ways to use these principles in coaching conversations to enhance teacher efficacy.
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BUILDING TEACHER LEADERSHIP
THROUGH JOINT WORK:
From Collaboration
to Collective Impact
In this session, we’ll explore how to transform traditional teacher collaboration into powerful joint work that builds teacher leadership capacity and collective efficacy. Through examining practical strategies for meaningful teacher involvement in school decision-making, participants will learn how to create conditions where individual teacher strengths are encouraged and called upon to build teacher leadership capacity. Participants will explore structures that support collaborative professionalism while empowering teachers to take on meaningful leadership roles within their school communities.
PARTICIPANTS
WILL BE ABLE TO:
· Evaluate and enhance current levels of teacher empowerment using the Ladder of Teacher Involvement framework to move toward more authentic shared leadership practices.
· Create conditions that recognize and leverage individual teacher strengths to build collective leadership capacity.
· Implement protocols that transform typical collaboration into joint work that fosters collective teacher efficacy.
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