What is collective efficacy? In short, it is when a team of individuals share the belief that, through their combined efforts, they can overcome challenges and positively impact student achievement and success. In this two-part workshop, Profs. Tim Leonard and Leigh Somerville of the Academic Literacy and Linguistics department at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) will provide an overview of the principles of collective efficacy while sharing practices that have worked in the classroom setting. Participants will be engaged in ways that ask them to consider how this thinking can inform their own classroom instruction and interactions with students, and begin to think about possible instructional shifts.
