This permitted half the teachers to attend each session, with enough aides and special area teachers available for classroom coverage. Other principals also manipulate school schedules to provide more staff development opportunities for their teachers. In addition, they share professional articles at meetings and by placing them in teachers' mailboxes, generally with a personal note. Now whether we do it or not is our choice. Many of the principals in our study encourage teachers to take risks.
Outstanding principals view unsuccessful tries as learning opportunities.
Creating teaming structures for collective responsibility . Many of the principals create organizational structures that reduce isolation and increase teaming. Teaming leads to a sense of collective responsibility for one another and for students and provides an emotional and instructional support network. One teacher observed that when she had tried everything she could think of with a student, simply having team members with whom she could share these frustrations helped. It's not only team teaching, but it is collaborative consultation.