Fostering Inclusive Team Leadership to Enhance School Leadership Teams’ Teaming

• In Event: Leadership Practices for Developing Teachers and Teamwork

Abstract

Team diversity is essential to building School Leadership Teams (SLTs). Since team diversity is not always beneficial to teamwork, the team literature has stressed the crucial role of team leadership, particularly inclusive team leadership, to this end. Yet, the education leadership literature has not adequately focused on inclusive team leadership. Thus, I investigated how one SLT engaged in inclusive leadership practices by employing a case study. I found two inclusive leadership practices: (a) leading team dialogues to develop a team psychological safety, especially for the marginalized group of members and (b) building an inclusive team mental model by differentiating leader’s behaviors depending on the knowledge boundary types. I examined these practices in consideration of the followers’ reactions and team context.

Author

• Hyunjin Choi, Teachers College, Columbia University