🎥 What does it mean? These are the mechanisms in a system that support people as they work efficiently together.
This includes teams organized to work like clockwork, implementation plans, well-allocated resources, useful technology, etc.
Infrastructure provides the stability for initiatives to be installed, sustained, and improved independent of specific people.
Teamwork
The basics of teams in a district are explained below. Keep in mind that team names will vary and you also might create specialized "satellite teams" and/or temporary work groups that teams delegate tasks to.
The overarching goal is to organize our teams like clockwork. This means that:
- All of the essential tasks are getting done. We're not neglecting parts of our system, and we don't have data blind spots.
- The work is clearly assigned amongst our teams (no wasted effort).
- The varied perspectives of stakeholders are being leveraged.
- Everyone is on the same page ("communication loops" are loopin').
Maintaining a Team Inventory Flowchart helps school leaders to analyze and continuously refine their linked teams, and it also helps when educating new staff and other stakeholders.
Basic Blueprint of Linked Teams — Agendas 📝 and Other Tools
For each team, you'll find customized versions of our generic agenda template (🎥 tutorial). They all use similar formatting, making it easy copy and paste pieces of one agenda into another.