Education expert and award-winning researcher Chad Dumas provides teacher team leaders with clarity on their role and approach, accompanied by actions that help teams get going, gain momentum, overcome obstacles and refine skills that maximize their effectiveness in professional learning communities. Uncover the responsibilities, assumptions and mindsets of effective teacher team leaders and utilise forty simple, go-to moves, techniques and strategies that will transform team collaboration.

K–12 teacher team leaders can rely on this handbook to:

• Understand the three key responsibilities of the team leader in a PLC.
• Cultivate assumptions and mindsets for successful team collaboration.
• Utilise tools to implement simple actions that transform team functioning.
• Reflect on their progress and determine future action steps.
• Address common challenges that impede their effectiveness.