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Unleashing Teacher Leadership: Pathways, Barriers, & Strategies for Success

Discover the forces, pathways, and barriers shaping teacher leadership. Learn key elements and strategies to empower teacher leaders and transform schools into collaborative, innovative spaces. Delve into leadership views, organizational obstacles, and promoting teacher leadership from the principal's office.

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Unleashing Teacher Leadership: Pathways, Barriers, & Strategies for Success

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  1. Teacher Leadership Joseph Murphy Frank W. Mayborn Chair & Associate Dean for Special Projects Vanderbilt University's Peabody College 210B Payne Hall, Box 414 230 Appleton Place Nashville, TN 37023-5721 615-322-8038 Joseph.f.murphy@Vanderbilt.edu

  2. What are the forces supporting teacher leadership? • What is the “theory in action” (engine)? • What are the pathways to bring teacher leadership to life? • What are the barriers to present teacher leadership from taking root? • What are the key ingredients to make it work? • What is the view of leadership for the principal in this reform idea? • How do you prepare teachers to assume the role of teacher leader?

  3. Supporting Forces • Changing Views of Schooling for Highly Productive Schools • Critique of Existing Forms • New Understandings of Productive School • Changing Views of Leadership in New School Organizations • Changing Role of Formal Leaders

  4. Supporting Forces • Changing Views of Leadership in New School Organizations (Cont.) • Distributed Views of Leadership • School Improvement Designs that Privilege Professionalism

  5. Pathways to Teacher Leadership

  6. Pathways to Teacher Leadership

  7. Organizational & Cultural Barriers • Organizational Structure • introduction • dynamics of hierarchy • Culture • introduction • norms about teaching & learning • norms about the nature of work

  8. Organizational & Cultural Barriers • Culture (cont.) • norm of autonomy • norms of privacy & non-interference • norm of egalitarianism • norm of civility • norm of conservatism & aversion to risk taking

  9. Organizational & Cultural Barriers • Culture (cont.) • norm of legitimacy • norm of the divide between teaching & administration • norm of managerial prerogative • norm of followership • norm of compliance

  10. Supporting Elements • Values and Expectations • Structures • Professional Development • Resources • Incentives and Recognition • Role Clarity

  11. Promoting Teacher Leadership from the Principal’s Office • Developing Relationships in Support of Teacher Leadership • Recasting Leadership • Building Strong Relationships with Teachers • Rethinking Conceptions of Power • Fashioning Supportive Organizational Structures • Working to Promote Teacher Leadership • Promoting Professional Development

  12. Teacher Leadership Curriculum • A. Developing an understanding of the whole school 1. Understanding how schools work 2. Understanding professional responsibilities of leaders 3. Developing a deeper understanding of leadership • B. Working productively with others 4. Developing more effective interpersonal skills 5. Learning to coach/mentor others 6. Facilitating productive collaboration

  13. Teacher Leadership Curriculum C. Deepening the instructional capacity of colleagues • 7. Designing and implementing high-quality professional development • 8. Recognizing, assessing, and supporting quality instructional practices with colleagues • 9. Program evaluation on teacher leaders D. Leading school improvement • 10. Developing and sustaining professional learning communities • 11. Leading change • 12. Teacher leader research • 13. Teacher leadership research • 14. Promoting equitable schools for youngsters and families

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