Collective leadership playbook: Vision and strategy self assessment

Assessing your current state

Before getting started, we invite you to reflect on and assess where your team is with defining, communicating, and using the vision and strategy for collective leadership implementation. Below are two choices for self-assessment: a rubric and micro-credentials. Use the rubrics to identify specific areas of strength challenge. Use the micro-credentials as assessments to determine whether or not members of your team are proficient at the stated skill. Both provide insights into the status of your team and can inform next steps; however, they are structured quite differently from each other.

Option 1: RubricUse this single-point rubric to assess where your team is with defining, communicating, and using the vision and strategy for collective leadership implementation. Single-point rubrics describe the target in the middle column. Use the column on the right to record evidence that your team meets or exceeds the criteria. Use the column on the left of the target to identify where your team has fallen short of the criteria.

Opportunities for growth Description of criteria

Define the vision

The vision for collective leadership has been collectively defined. Our school’s future state has been clearly articulated.

Use the vision

Structures and strategies are codified for how we use the vision to guide our work.

Evidence of success

www.teachingquality.org

Communicate the vision

All stakeholders have a clear understanding of the vision for collective leadership because they helped develop it.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

A wide range of diverse perspectives is included as the vision for collective leadership is implemented. Consideration is made about how the vision for collective leadership will support efforts to address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Opportunities for growth Description of criteria

Define the strategy

The strategy for collective leadership implementation has been collectively developed and incorporated into our school plans.

Communicate the strategy

All stakeholders have a clear understanding of the strategy for collective leadership because they helped develop it.

Evidence of success

www.teachingquality.org

Use the strategy

Implementation strategies are codified and integrated throughout our work.

• Cultivating a Shared Purpose; and• Ensuring Alignment to the Shared Purpose.

These micro-credentials use the language of Shared purpose, which includes mission, vision, values, and goals. However, the intent is very similar to the Vision and strategy system condition for collective leadership.

Once you have completed at least one of the self-assessments, let’s dig into how to define, communicate, and use the vision and strategy for collective leadership implementation.

www.teachingquality.org

Option 2: Micro-credentials

Micro-credentials are competency-based assessments that can be used to determine proficiency of a particular skill. Each micro-credential includes key resources recommended to support the development of the skill and can be used as a guide for professional learning. Your team may find these resources are valuable even if you decide not to submit the micro-credential. For more information about micro-credentials, see CTQ’s website.

Note that micro-credentials are designed as individual assessments of competencies, so your whole team may want to work on these together as a way of helping you determine who most possesses these competencies already. Just because one person may have — or may not yet have — a particular competency does not necessarily mean that your entire team or system lacks the competencies that relate to this condition for collective leadership.

There are currently two micro-credentials associated with the development of a vision and strategy for collective leadership implementation: