Teacher leadership has the potential to improve classroom instruction, shape school culture, create better education policies and help address some of the most complex challenges in our public schools. But not all school and district leaders understand its value. This report can help you make the case for teacher leadership opportunities in your schools, and show how it benefits educators and students alike.
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Below are videos and accompanying case studies showing how four outstanding educators are bringing teacher leadership in to their schools. Please enjoy, and share with anybody curious about what teacher leadership looks like in action.
9th Grade Humanities Teacher, Codman Academy, Dorchester, MA, and 2017 MA and National Teacher of the Year
6th Grade English Language Arts, Collins Middle School, Salem, MA
7th and 8th Grade Math Teacher, Nissitissit Middle School, Pepperell, MA
9th and 10th Grade Math Teacher, Revere High School, Revere, MA
Successfully making the case for teacher leadership is just the first step. How do you create the structures and systems necessary for educators and students to get the most out of the opportunity teacher leadership provides? This report explains how a well-designed teacher advisory can help teacher leadership thrive–and achieve meaningful outcomes for schools and districts.
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State education agencies have a unique opportunity through the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to access the funding and support needed to advance their approach to teacher leadership. The State Teacher Leadership Toolkit provides a playbook for states to develop a framework to guide the planning, design, implementation, and assessment of teacher leadership initiatives that increase pedagogical content expertise and student achievement.
Developed in collaboration with Leading Educators, the toolkit represents a synthesis of best practices and emerging models from Iowa, Massachusetts, and Tennessee, in addition to contributions from Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Illinois, New Jersey, and South Carolina. With this guide, state and district leaders have the tools necessary to identify their teacher leadership goals, choose strategies to seed teacher leadership within their districts, and drive continuous improvement to reflect and build on their success.
This toolkit is follows Leading Educators’ 2014 report, Leading from the Front of the Classroom: A Roadmap for Teacher Leadership that Works, which presented school districts with a concrete strategy for maximizing the potential of highly effective teachers to help improve classroom instruction, transform school culture, and create bold, high-impact teacher leadership initiatives.
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