<p><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Leading Impact Teams: Building a Culture of Efficacy and Agency offers a </em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">dynamic school transformation framework for instilling a culture where collective efforts drive remarkable outcomes. The Impact Team Model (ITM) reimagines&nbsp; traditional PLCs into asset-based agents of change. Readers will explore efficacy's pivotal role-a belief in one's ability to reach goals-in propelling teams toward continuous improvement by advancing system-wide learner agency.&nbsp;</span></p><p><br></p><ul><li><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Reimagine PLCs by anchoring collaborative inquiry with design thinking.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Shape self-empowered learners who are intellectually adept and socially conscious.&nbsp;</span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Enhance collaboration and communication by harmoniously leveraging diverse skills and perspectives.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Advance formative assessment through an asset-based, cultural lens.&nbsp;</span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Recognize and value learners' cultural strengths as indispensable sources of knowledge.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Transcend conventional, deficit-minded teaching methods in exchange for asset-based pedagogies.&nbsp;</span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Strengthen learners' capacity to purposefully and constructively direct their social, emotional, and academic growth.</span></li></ul><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">This easy-to-read, practical book includes case studies, videos, and tools that help PLCs build upon stakeholders' assets. Create conditions where innovation, creativity, and empathy thrive-and where students believe in their capacity to learn.&nbsp;</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>