Team Roles
Team Leader
- Makes all arrangements for meetings or delegates responsibility
- Sends out all meeting notices, agendas, and minutes
- Clarifies the purpose of the group for group members
- Pays primary attention to the goals of the Action Plan
- Makes sure all key roles are filled
- Encourages all team members to participate
- Remains impartial
- Ensures that members have equal opportunity to participate
- Moves the agenda and keeps the group on task
- Initiates evaluation of meeting
Coach/Facilitator
- Provides support for:
□Team start-up
□Team sustainability
□Public relations/communications
□Positive reinforcers to students and staff
□Technical assistance/data-based decision-making
□Problem-solving
□Local training/leadership
□Comes prepared and on time
Recorder
- Keeps agenda in mind
- Asks for clarification and summarizes speakers’ statements
- Uses people’s words to capture essence of statements and does not revise statements
- Listens for real meaning
- Transcribes discussions and decisions on Team Minutes form
- Distributes Team Minutes form to all staff in a timely manner
List Keeper
- Keeps a running list of tasks or materials needed for the next meeting
- Ensures the team discusses old Action Plan items
- Tracks new Action Plan items
- Distributes Action Plan summary to all team members in a timely manner following each meeting
Communicator (you may decide to have different communicators to communicate with different stakeholder groups)
- Communicates the decisions or requests from the team to all stakeholders:
√Classified staff
√Certified staff
√Parents
√SBDM
√School board
√Community
Data/Technology Specialist
- Ensures that a discussion about data occurs during every meeting
- Brings necessary data to meeting for review and analysis
- Leads discussion about data during meetings
- Has interest and understanding of internet and other web-based technology
Time Keeper
- Gets the group started on time
- Reminds facilitator of time intervals
- Assists in the development of ground rules
- Reminds the groups of ground rules, as needed
- Initiates timely adjournment of meeting
- Comes prepared and on time
Keeper of the Manual
- Keeps a written record of how and what the team accomplished in the process of developing school-wide PBS
- Keeps the official copies of all handouts and documents
- Keeps the official copies of team meeting agendas and minutes
- Manual will evolve into a procedures manual for the school
Team Member
- Actively participates in meetings
- Thinks of the welfare of the group at all times
- Assists with facilitation of group discussion
- Devotes energies to all tasks
- Encourages all members to participate
Other roles as deemed necessary by the Leadership