Fully Built Out TLC Design Distributive Leadership Organization Chart[1]

To provide the foundation for strong distributive leadership at your school, your school will develop a long term organizational chart for how it will organize its teachers into small, sustainable teams. This organizational chart will also show the teacher leader roles that will lead and support these teams in growing and developing all teachers so thatEvery Child Succeeds when all your teachers belong to small, sustainable teams. It will allow you to establish what TLC will look like at your school when fully in place, so that you can plan backwards to determine whether you will implement that full design next year, or take steps to build toward that full design in 17-18.

Instructions:Adjust and complete the organizational chart template below (or another version of the template available on the Commons) to show how you are organizing all your teaching roles into teams to support teacher growth and development in service of every child succeeding in the long-term. Specifically:

Step 1:Modify the Org Chart template[2]by adding/deleting/reorganizing shapes and changing colorsto show:

☐The number of teacher teams your school will have when all teachers belong to small sustainable teams(represented vertically)

☐The number of teacher roles on each team (represented by each blue box under the team). Keep these as “Teacher” roles so they remain agnostic of the individuals currently in the role

☐What role leads each team (e.g., Sr. Team Lead, Team Lead, Principal, AP, Dean)

☐What role will support Senior/Team Leads by including Senior/Team Leads on the team of a Principal, AP, Dean or other Senior/Team Lead

☐ (Optional) Which if any teams will have aTeam Specialistto add additional capacity to those teams by changing the first teacher role to Orange and labeling Teacher/Team Specialist (Showing Team Specialists on the org chart is optional, but will be helpful as you think about where you want to build capacity for these roles at amongst your staff

Step 2:Replace the italicized textto illustrate:

☐Organizing Feature: For each team, indicate the team’s organizing featureor the commonality that brings these teachers together as a team (e.g., 3rd/4th grade, 9-12th Science, 6-8 Math/Science, Visual and Performing Arts)

☐Content/Grade: For each teacher role, indicate the subject and/or grade level for each teaching role that belongs to this team. To create sustainable teams, teams should focus on teaching roles, not people.

☐Senior/Team Lead: Indicate whether the team will be led by a Senior Team Lead or a Team Lead


TIPS / Use the “Smart Tools Design Tab” in MS Word to add/delete/reorganize shapes as needed to meet your school.
Use the “Smart Tools Format Tab”in MS Word to change colors as needed, but don’t let changing colors become a huge burden.
Additional versions and formats of this org chart will be made available on the Commons to help.

RESOURCES / Additional versions and formats of this org chart to use in place of this one. (Forthcoming)
Annotated TLC Org Chart, with more detailed directions and considerations, and Sample TLC Org Charts. (Forthcoming)
TLC Teacher Leader Role Descriptions
“Forming Strong Teams Exercise” to help you map out your teams for your Fully Built-Out TLC Design using post-its first. (Forthcoming)

KEY:

KEY
Role / Color
Principal / DPS Blue
AP and Dean / Warm Grey
Teacher / Bright Blue
Senior/ Team Lead / Dark Magenta
Team Specialist / Orange
New Teacher Ambassador / Purple

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TLC Distributive Leadership Organization Chart (Version 2 as of 10/2/2016)

School Name:______

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TLC Distributive Leadership Organization Chart (Version 2 as of 10/2/2016)

School Name:______

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TLC Distributive Leadership Organization Chart (Version 2 as of 10/2/2016)

[1] School Distributive Leadership Org. Chart may be adjusted and updated based on funding, staffing, student data, lessons learned, and/or progress toward school’s fully built out TLC design.

[2]Please note the # of Teams, # of teachers on teams, leadership of teams, and association of Team Specialists with specific teams, is provided to illustrate different permutations