Engage your administrator in your collaboration initiative.(20 Ways To ...)

Teacher collaboration clutchs great promise for improving the quality of instruction for all scholars Although the major players in a collaborative initiative are classroom teachers, administrators are important and powerful team members. Indeed, their engagement in and support of collaboration are cited repeatedly in the literature as factors critical to the succes of professional collaboration. Thus, many essential ingredients for effective collaboration--from simple verbal encouragement to release time and money--come from administrators. on the contrary schools are complex organizations to