When team members share a sense of collective efficacy it results in greater professional well-being, resilience, and impact. Participants will develop deeper understandings about collective efficacy, the positive consequences associated with it, and the sources that shape a team’s beliefs about what they are capable of accomplishing. Since ‘Collective Efficacy’ topped John Hattie’s Visible Learning list of factors that matter the most in raising student achievement, educators and school leaders are asking themselves: How can we foster a sense of collective efficacy? In this session, participants will consider how to harness the power of teams by identifying the conditions that help to enable collective efficacy in schools. 

Participants will be able to: 

• define and provide examples of collective efficacy.

• explain the effect size research and identify where different influences rank in relation to collective efficacy.

• name and describe productive patterns of behavior and other positive consequences that result from a shared sense of efficacy. 

• name and describe the negative consequences that are associated with a lack of efficacy. 

• understand how past experiences influence a teams’ beliefs about their ability to impact student results.       

• define and provide examples of the four sources that shape collective efficacy beliefs. 

• describe contextual factors that influence the formation of efficacy beliefs. 

• assess the enabling conditions for collective efficacy in their environments

• determine ways to strengthen collaboration and foster efficacy through the sources and enabling conditions.