Leading Impact Teams - 2nd Edition by Paul Bloomberg & Barb Pitchford (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Leading Impact Teams: Building a Culture of Efficacy and Agency offers a dynamic school transformation framework for instilling a culture where collective efforts drive remarkable outcomes. The Impact Team Model (ITM) reimagines traditional PLCs into asset-based agents of change. Readers will explore efficacy's pivotal role-a belief in one's ability to reach goals-in propelling teams toward continuous improvement by advancing system-wide learner agency.

• Reimagine PLCs by anchoring collaborative inquiry with design thinking.
• Shape self-empowered learners who are intellectually adept and socially conscious.
• Enhance collaboration and communication by harmoniously leveraging diverse skills and perspectives.
• Advance formative assessment through an asset-based, cultural lens.
• Recognize and value learners' cultural strengths as indispensable sources of knowledge.
• Transcend conventional, deficit-minded teaching methods in exchange for asset-based pedagogies.
• Strengthen learners' capacity to purposefully and constructively direct their social, emotional, and academic growth.

This easy-to-read, practical book includes case studies, videos, and tools that help PLCs build upon stakeholders' assets. Create conditions where innovation, creativity, and empathy thrive-and where students believe in their capacity to learn.

Review Quotes

Rooted in an unshakable commitment to equity, compassion, and interdependence, Bloomberg and Pitchford have further developed their Leading Impact Teams framework to guide school communities in redefining how the learning process can empower students and teachers in such a way that each is elevated by it. This book speaks seamlessly across the worlds of scholarship and implementation, and it provides a straightforward path to engage existing structures in schools to take deeper steps toward "learning" as a partnership between educators, students, families, and the wider community. Ultimately, Impact Teams helps us practically imagine how schools become spaces of leadership, where the challenges of an increasingly dynamic world are able to be contemplated by those students who will quickly inherit the responsibility to shoulder it.

Sam Jordan, Grants Director, Alaska Council of School Administrators

This book champions the transformative power of collaboration. It provides practical methods, actionable insights, reflective questions, and exemplars to guide and empower educators. These methods have all been tried and tested by the authors and the numerous districts and schools they have worked with. The book reflects a deep commitment to equity, a keen focus on using evidence and inquiry to inform practice, and a commitment to ensuring that learners are active participants in the learning process. These, together, are fundamental building blocks to ensure that every learner receives the education they deserve. Leading Impact Teams 2.0 is an essential guide for those passionate about making a difference.

Anna Sullivan, Chief Executive, Evaluation Associates Ltd., Newmarket, New Zealand

The revised edition of Bloomberg and Pitchford's Leading Impact Teams has strengthened and clarified a book that has already become one of the most implemented professional development sources for instructional teams around the world. The focus of moving teams from PLCs to Impact Teams is the mission of this book through the strategy of teacher collective efficacy. This new edition adds important dimensions of impact and efficacy through a focus on equity, asset-based pedagogies, and culturally responsive instruction. Instructional teams will continue to learn how to maximize collective efficacy through learning cultures, feedback, and formative mindsets, but with an increased focus on diverse populations that stand to benefit from this important instructional model.

Barry J. Graff, EdD, Brigham Young University-Public School Partnership, Provo, Utah