Contributed by Peter DeWitt
Principal, January/February 2019. Volume 98, Number 3.

School leaders are asked to do more than ever because of an increase in instructional leadership and students’ heightened social-emotional needs. School leaders must understand they cannot do it alone. They need to leverage the assistant principal (AP) role and leadership teams to help impact academic and social-emotional learning. Working in collaboration as a leadership team provides the opportunity to build collective efficacy where everyone can grow.

Collective efficacy is the collective self-perception that adults in a given school make an educational difference to students over and above the educational impact of their homes and communities. Although it is often focused on teachers, the result of leadership teams working together can be equally as powerful. Use this guide to build collective efficacy—starting with your AP..

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