Team leaders in education

Leading teacher teams and professional learning communities in education
Unique in-depth training for team leaders and team coaches of school teams. Based on scientific insights and on our thorough and many years of practical experience of teacher team guidance.

Why should you follow this workshop series now?
You want to work as a team leader/team coach/process coach of a teacher team. You want to develop leadership in a team of colleagues without taking on hierarchical leadership, for which the responsibility lies with a board member.

You know that teacher teams – in the form of professional learning communities – are the most effective form of professionalization for educational professionals. You are also convinced that powerful teacher teams drive educational development in your school forward and that teacher team efficacy has a major impact on educational quality.

During your teacher training you have acquired competencies for implementing powerful classroom management, but you now want to learn more about how to manage a team of colleagues. So you want to professionalize yourself as a team leader in order to work effectively with a team of colleagues on educational development or school development. Then this course is perfect for you.

Who is this workshop series designed for?
For team leaders, team coaches, process coaches, coordinators who want to professionally manage one or more teacher teams. Suitable for primary schools, secondary schools, schools for special education, CVOs, CBEs, academies and higher education institutions.

This training can also be organized in-company in your own school to immediately train ten to fifteen team leaders. Request more information here .

Why choose this workshop series?

• You know what a teacher team is and in what forms teacher teams occur;
• You know what a professional learning community (PLG) is and what characteristics an effective PLG has;
• You will be provided with concrete tools to start up your team for which you are responsible as team leader and to set up the actions for which the team is responsible;
• You know how to get started with the division of roles within your team;
• You know what shared leadership is and can apply its principles within the context of your team;
• You will be provided with tools to help your team evolve into a learning team;
• Together with your team members, you can prioritize which challenges you want to work on and which (educational) products you want to achieve;
• You know how to make a team investigative and, in addition to intuition, also give way to data analysis;
• You can coach a team of employees with appreciation;
• You can maintain the dynamics within your team;
• You detect what is going well in your team;
• You detect what your team is encountering;
• You can have professional dialogues with your team members;
• You can discuss psychological safety in your team.

More information about teacher teams and professional learning communities can be found on our theme page.

We also refer to the book 'TEAM SCHOOL, creating learning communities in education, publisher Lannoo Campus (2019)', co-authored by one of the trainers below.

Our team of educational designers can also guide your school in coaching problem teams, intervisioning team leaders and supporting school leaders in setting up a team organization in a judicious manner.

After this workshop series:

• you feel stronger to judiciously manage and coach teacher teams and professional learning communities;
• you know how to co-creatively develop a vision for the team with your team members, drive educational development and make your team learn;
• you can discuss psychological safety and teacher team efficacy in your team and you know how to conduct professional dialogues with your team members.

Who will guide you in this process?
Pieter Sprangers (PhD) lives in parallel worlds. He works as a teacher and scientific researcher at the Karel de Grote Hogeschool, AP Hogeschool and the University of Antwerp. He obtained a PhD in scientific educational design research. His scientific research focuses on redesign of educational systems. Pieter also works as head educational designer and process supervisor at domo de refontiro. He has been guiding schools in Flanders and the Netherlands for almost twenty years with regard to the most complex transformations. Pieter is co-author of the book TEAM SCHOOL, creating learning communities in education (2019) and has unique expertise in guiding schools in successfully setting up a teacher team operation and training and supporting team leaders.

Nancy Dedeurwaerder has been working in education for more than twenty years: as a teacher and internship supervisor, coordinator, pedagogical director and in recent years as general director of the RHIZO school group. Nancy also works as a process supervisor at domo de refontiro, where she guides schools on themes such as personnel policy, school leadership and strategic policy. Because everything is moving, an organization such as a school also has to keep up. Constantly looking for how new needs can be met more and better, that characterizes her efforts to the fullest. Values - not the issues of the day - are her compass. Nancy gives a lot of space to vulnerability. Those of others and her own. Only when there is room for what is not perfect - including gentleness - only then does a sense of security arise.