Why We Wrote This Book
Chapter 1: Why Team Habits Matter
Chapter 2: Getting Started
Chapter 3: Responsive Learning
Chapter 4: Responsive Meetings
Chapter 5: Responsive Projects
Chapter 6: Conclusion
Appendix
Anthony Kim is a nationally recognized
leader in education technology, school design, and personalized
learning. As founder and CEO of Education Elements, he has been
involved in helping hundreds of schools change the way they think
about teaching and learning. As the author of “The Personalized
Learning Playbook, Why the Time Is Now”, Anthony has influenced
many educators. He has contributed to many publications on new
school models including “Lessons Learned from Blended Programs:
Experiences and Recommendations from the Field”. Anthony is a
nationally recognized speaker on personalized learning and his
work has been referenced by the Christensen
Institute, iNACOL, EdSurge, CompetencyWorks, EdWeek,
District Administrator, and numerous other research
reports.
Anthony also founded Provost Systems, which
provided online learning solutions to school
districts. Provost Systems was acquired
by EdisonLearning, where he served as Executive Vice President
of Online. Anthony is passionate helping school district can become
more nimble, understanding what motivates adult learners, and
designing schools that plan for the needs of our future.
Outside of education, Anthony is passionate about triathlons and
learning about people who overcome remarkable challenges. He is a
San Francisco native and continues to live there with his wife
Angela and rescued dogs.
Keara Mascareñaz is the Managing Partner, Organizational Design at
Education Elements. She focuses on organizational design and how to
build and scale a culture of innovation in large systems. Keara
leads work in in change management, leadership development, school
design, and strategic planning. Keara is the toolkit creator for
The NEW School Rules: 6 Practices for Thriving and Responsive
Schools.
Keara has supported system-wide change at more than 500 district
and school partners and has led projects for rural, urban, and
suburban schools and districts, including dozens of Gates
Foundation Next Generation Learning Challenge schools and regions,
Gates Next Generations Systems Initiative grantees, and Race to the
Top district winners. She has been a keynote speaker and workshop
facilitator at TinyCon, iNACOL, District Administration Leadership
Institute, Blended and Personalized Learning Conference,
Personalized Learning Summit, and hundreds of districts around the
country.
Keara began her career as a third grade teacher on the Navajo
Reservation. She worked as a college coach, history teacher,
operations manager, and curriculum designer; and through this work,
she learned how to effectively communicate about and engage folks
in the work of large-scale change. Keara was selected as one of
twenty fellows in the national Pahara NextGen Network that focuses
on developing leaders who will change the future of education.
Keara grew up in rural, southern Oregon and currently lives in
Denver with her husband.
Kawai Lai is a designer, facilitator, and strategy consultant
helping organizations make the abstract more concrete. She is
a co-founder of VizLit, an organization with the mission to unlock
the visual minds of students and educators. Formerly, she served as
the Vice President of Innovation at the National Association of
Independent Schools, a non-profit serving over 1,800 schools and
730K students across the country and abroad. In her role, she
helped schools reimagine education, build capacity to innovate, and
share stories of authentic progress. Kawai was a founding team
member of Education Elements, an ed tech startup working with the
most forward-thinking public school districts and charters across
the country to personalize learning. Prior to a career in
education, Kawai spent a decade in consulting and technology,
implementing large scale technology systems with Deloitte, working
in different industries including healthcare, biotech, and
aerospace. She has an MBA from Haas, UC Berkeley and a BS in
mechanical engineering from Southern Methodist University.
The NEW Team Habits: A Guide to the New School Rules is a
step-by-step workbook to building leadership teams and helping them
grow. It is recommended for schools that seek concrete strategies
and approaches to creating better teams that work together more
cohesively.
Effective school teams need to be unified in their approaches,
support, practices, and applications. Organizational leaders
looking to take a step down the hierarchy to address team habits in
school environments will find The NEW Team Habits the perfect
primer to guide the way.
Chapters use individual team participation and team building
routines as focal points, considering both underlying philosophy
and strategies and why team interaction and structure are the
foundation of organizational change.
This book′s structure is designed to achieve clarity and buy-in to
the process. Therefore, it′s recommended that educators and leaders
use it as a step-by-step workbook for team building changes, to be
used by a team leader committed to applying the exercises, which
can take up to 90 minutes (30 for leader′s independent pursuit, 60
minutes spent with the team itself).
The specific time structure attached to these activities may stymie
those who anticipate a more general, freer form of organization,
but they are important keys to achieving these building blocks.
From clear explanations and enactments of rules for sharing
information and understanding and analyzing mistakes to check-in
practices covered in rounds supported by charts and fill-in blanks,
The NEW Team Habits provides not just admonitions and ideals, but a
concrete process that teams can follow to solidify and strengthen
their goals.
It should be noted that the guide is not an ethereal concept. It′s
based on hundreds of seminars, workshops, and conferences where its
principles were put into action in very different environments and
tested over and over again.
Teams have habits that not only shape their group identities, but
influence organizations as a whole. Leaders interested in building
better teams from the ground up will find The NEW Team Habits a key
to better leadership, teams, and ultimately, better communities
with stronger interactions.
Small habit changes lead to bigger revisions, and so The NEW Team
Habits should not be considered the end-all to the process, but the
first step in a series of evolutionary team growth experiences.
*Diane C. Donovan*
Leadership has one responsibility: to grow your people. The three
habits are steps to set those conditions. It’s really a simple
equation . . . grow the people, the people grow the organization,
and the organization grows the results.
*Howard Behar*
This short, visual, and practical book will make you smile, think,
work, and practice so you and your team get better and more
responsive.
*Tom Vander Ark*
The traditional education system was set up as a single-player
sport. You were responsible for your work, your assignments, your
test scores, your grades, your behavior, and so on. If you work in
education, this model continued throughout your career as an
educator. The problem is we now live in a team-based world, and
unless you played a team sport, most of us never learned how to be
part of a creative and productive team. We never learned the habits
and skills critical to team effectiveness. We certainly didn’t have
a guide or the ability to practice good habits.
This guide is a playbook, specifically focused on helping teams
build habits as a collective unit, instead of as individuals. This
step-by-step guide allows teams to practice battle-tested
activities that will help them develop productive and practical
habits of learning, meetings, and projects.
Any team that works through this playbook will come out as a more
effective and productive team on the other side!
*Jaime Casap*
Shared habits are at the root of culture, which makes The NEW Team
Habits an excellent guide for building a strong team culture that
delivers for our students. Far too few thought leaders pay enough
attention to these operational questions. Bravo to Anthony Kim,
Keara Mascareñaz, Kawai Lai, and Education Elements for digging in
here.
*Michael Horn*
Equity, diversity, and inclusion are a high priority for many
districts across the country.A genuine commitment and a strong
understanding of how to secure the presence of these tenets in the
teaching and learning landscape will continue to be at the center
stage of visionary and innovative strategic plans. The NEW Team
Habits has the potential to provide actionable approaches to making
equity, diversity, and inclusion part of our daily practice.
*Jose Dotres*
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