Ford NGL U Teacher Team Leads Circle
Team leaders of pathway and career academy teacher teams, this Ford NGL U Circle is just for you. Join together with roles just like you -leading pathway and career academy teacher teams.
You will learn new strategies and protocols that can be implemented in your classroom and across your team.
This Circle unifies Team Leads with a heavy focus on building your leadership capacity to move the needle.
Who is this Circle for?
Teacher leaders that form and develop a team of interdisciplinary teachers will find the right fit here! This Circle has one expectation: you are a teacher team lead for either a pathway team of teachers that includes the core academics and career and technical education teachers or a career academy team of teachers organized in a small learning community.
Academy/Pathway Team Lead
Teacher Team Lead
Team Coordinator
What's in it for you?
Participants in this Ford NGL U Circle will gain resources, insights, and support that are needed to elevate their work!
Relevant Resources & Material
Access resources, material and tools designed specifically for your role and that you can use with your teacher teams.
Intentional Support
Join a team of your peers dedicated to finding solutions to the challenges related to your role.
Leadership Development
Strengthen your leadership skills essential to your role. Learn how to lead others with an outward mindset and using a distributed leadership model, so your teacher teams go farther!
Professional Network
Convene with practitioners and friends from across the globe who share similar roles to you. Lean-in together, learn together, and grow together.
Overcome Challenges
Get help overcoming challenges such as:
Unable to change management practices ?
Develop leadership skills through strategies like change management practices and a distributive leadership model.
Want to create a culture of continuous improvement ?
Develop a professional development and learning plan that incorporates teacher team work-based learning opportunities with your business partners.
Need to buildconsensus?
Learn to build consensus on common language around your pathway and academy theme (this includes core academic and CTE teachers).
Difficulty coaching adult learners?
Coaching and supporting a team of adult learners is much different than a classroom role of supporting and coaching students. Learn how to excel with these differences.
Difficulty understanding your district's vision?
Learn to understand your district’s vision, your school’s role, and how you can translate it into your team so that your various meetings (i.e., advisory council, team meetings, building meetings) are aligned and connected.
Need meetings to be more effective ?
Learn effective team meeting practices and improve your design and facilitate skills in order to lead meetings that result in your desired outcomes.
