Leading a Teaching Team
Coaching, feedback and difficult conversations for school leaders
Leadership in a school is mostly conversations: the observation debrief, the underperformance conversation, the meeting that could have been an email. This book treats each as a skill with structure. Written for heads of department, coordinators, and anyone newly responsible for colleagues who used to be only peers.
Contents
- 1The Observation DebriefAsk before you tell, and leave with one action.6 min read
- 2Feedback That LandsDescribe, don't characterise. Then agree what changes.6 min read
- 3Difficult ConversationsSay the hard sentence in the first minute.6 min read
- 4Meetings Worth AttendingA meeting needs a decision, or it needs cancelling.5 min read
About the author
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School Leadership Mentor
Sarah Lindqvist mentors new and experienced school leaders on building healthy teaching teams. She has led professional-development programs across three continents and writes about feedback culture, trust, and sustainable leadership.