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IMPORTANCE AND OVERVIEW OF TEAM MEMBER ROLES

To efficiently and effectively accomplish your SW-PBS tasks, the work must be distributed. The SW-PBS Leadership Team is a team in its truest form: Together Everyone Achieves More. Effective meetings that lead to successful action planning and utilize consensus decision-making often have several common roles that are designated to make the processes run more smoothly. Although the name and nature of these roles may vary from group to group, this lesson represents an array of roles that have been found to contribute to success.

Key Terms

Coaching: Job embedded professional learning provided to support implementation of new skills and practices. Frequently involves modeling, observing, and providing feedback.

UNPACKING TEAM MEMBER ROLES

SW-PBS Leadership Team Roles

Depending on the size of your school and team, not all teams may use all of the recommended roles; although some are essential, the most common are: 1) chairperson, 2) timekeeper, 3) secretary, recorder, or note taker.

Roles are most often assigned based on interest and the specific skill sets of individual team members. Some teams opt to rotate the main roles through all the group members in order to build the experience and skills of all participants, avoid an overreliance on a few, and equalize all while preventing any perception of concentration of power. The specifics of roles is perhaps less important than the commitment to use roles and effective group processes to heighten your operation and productivity. Recommended roles and assigned tasks, include:

Coaching

In addition to suggested roles, team members may be designated to serve in a coaching role to support full SW-PBS implementation by staff. In many ways, all team members will serve in a coaching role, which includes: 1) listening, questioning, and reviewing data, 2) encouraging, teaching, prompting, providing practice, and modeling, 3) communicating with stakeholders, 4) distributing information and gathering input, and 5) organizing and promoting professional learning activities. Some teams may have the ability to identify someone who serves primarily as a coach for their staff.