Administrative support can be demonstrated in a variety of ways, not least by a member of the administration giving of his or her time to the particular endeavor. Necessary administrative support takes other forms as well. Team members, for example, cannot be expected to do everything 'after hours'. The school administration must be ready to arrange for release time as necessary, in order for team members to plan and implement transition programming. The more successful transitions resource teams will have an administration who attends to their 'process' as well as their 'content'.
People tend to work better when their work is positively recognized.
By writing of the transitions resource team's work in the school literature, speaking about it at Board meetings, and supporting its presentations at international school conferences, the school administration celebrates the team itself. An international school is taking on a serious commitment when it decides to develop a transitions resource team. Appropriate foundations must be laid. Team members must slow down the process. When a team identifies its values, purpose, and goals as above, it sets a context for future work.