After reading several threads, I was saddened to see many TLs communicating that they were being left out of important opportunities to contribute their knowledge, ideas and form integral partnerships across the school. They were being placed in single level meetings, left out of executive meetings and many didn’t either see or even meet with their principals.

What seemed to be missing was a value towards collaboration.

However, there was also much discussion around what contributes towards improving relationships in the workplace. These ideas are as follows;

• Collaboration that is structured in both a traditional sense (e.g. working within your year groups) and more organic (e.g. working on a goal with others who share a common interest).
• Providing staff with opportunities to learn from each other by sharing expertise in areas of knowledge.
• Giving all staff members equal opportunities to communicate and be part of decision making
• Using effective communication to navigate differing viewpoints
• Collaborative decision making practices
• Transparent Information exchange between leadership and school community