Tools & Resources

This tool helps teams reflect on how their norms are functioning in real time. It offers a quick way to assess what’s supporting the work, what’s getting in the way, and where small adjustments can strengthen collaboration.

Use this tool to guide your team in creating communication norms that fit your context. Reflect on how you want to work together, define shared expectations, and ensure your interactions support collaboration and collective leadership.

Use this screener instrument to begin your team’s process of reflection on eight key features of the improvement plan for your school, campus, or district. For each key feature, record an overall rating in response to the statement presented.

Getting Started with Collective Leadership
The Collective Leadership Conditions Matrix is designed to help school leaders analyze what conditions might be lacking in their school based on their observed results.

Condition: Vision & Strategy
A collectively led shared vision is co-developed, co-implemented, and co-refined, and benefits from the collective wisdom of the organization.

Condition: Supportive Administration
Inviting others into our practice allows us to see the work from a different perspective.

Condition: Supportive Administration
Begin to separate the symptoms from potential root causes of shared pain points in your work as a team.

Condition: Capacity & Resources
The practice of collective leadership is intended not to be a program but to help you and your team make strategic sense of programs.

Condition: Work Structures
The first step in determining the shifts needed in how time and schedules are structured is to determine how time is currently being used.

Condition: Relationships & Social Norms
Communication, whether intentional or not, has an influence on how teams work together.

Condition: Shared Influence
This self-assessment will give you a sense of where your team is with shared influence and is likely to generate ideas for how to strengthen this condition at your school/district.

Condition: Orientation to Improve
The process of exploring the fears that formal jargon can evoke can help us understand and release their hold on our thinking.

Condition: Orientation to Improve
After reading Small Shifts, Meaningful Improvement, assess your work to determine what might be the best starting point for leadership shifts toward a more collectively-led workplace.

Dive Deeper into Collective Leadership
Meaningful improvement in schools and districts is just a small shift away.