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The Handbook for SMART School Teams
Revitalizing Best Practices for Collaboration
Prepare your students for the future while juggling the expectations of multiple stakeholders! A fresh take on the classic first edition, this guide defines and advocates SMART goals—goals that are Strategic and specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results oriented, and Time bound. Gain a schoolwide understanding of how to cultivate a productive collaborative culture, and engage every member of your team in the process.
Benefits
- Gain a schoolwide understanding of what success is, how to assess it, and when it should be measured.
- Engage every member of the school team to reach common expectations and priorities.
- Plan and execute effective team meetings.
- Learn to make well-informed decisions using group planning processes and data tools.
- Prepare students, staff, and other stakeholders for school improvement plans.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: SMART Thinking for (Still) Critical Times
Chapter 1: Cornerstones of Collaboration and Teamwork
Chapter 2: Fundamentals for Getting Started
Chapter 3: Teamwork Basics
Chapter 4: Tools for Productive Meetings
Chapter 5: Group Process and Planning Tools
Chapter 6: Tools for Understanding Perceptions and Opinions
Chapter 7: Data Tools for Understanding More Than Problems
Chapter 8: Systems Thinking or Coherent School Improvement
Chapter 9: A Schoolwide Improvement Process
Appendix A: Tools for SMART Schools
Appendix B: Reproducibles
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 9
Appendix B
- Collaborative Action Research Guide
- Decision Matrix
- Meeting Agenda Template
- Meeting Evaluation Form
- Meeting Record
- Meeting Skills Self-Assessment
- Random Number Table
- Responsibility Matrix
- Team Charter
- Template for Organizing Staff Research Findings
- Template for Planning Professional Development
- The SMART Schools Self-Assessment
- Worksheet for Computing Control Limits
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Websites
- Administering a Department: A Guide for Identifying and Improving Support Processes in an Academic Department
- Learning Forward
- The Team Handbook
Kinesthetic Learner Techniques
- Experiential Tools
- Hands-On Is Minds-On
- Hands-On, Minds-On Activities
- Helping Kinesthetic Learners Succeed
- Kinesthetic Learner
- Kinesthetic Learning Strategies: Activities to Help Tactile Learners
- Learning Styles
- Tactile-Kinesthetic Learners
Snapshot and Moving Picture Tools Examples
- How to Create a Run Chart in Excel
- Learn How to Build Open Source “Drag-Drop-Share” Analytical Dashboards
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Excel Chart Templates
- QI Macros for Control Charts
- QI Macros for Run Charts
Cloud-Based Tools Examples

