Lessons learned

1. Lessons learned • School culture impacts learning • Teacher leadership comes in all forms • Teachers are hungry for intellectual development • Administrators have huge impact on development of teacher leadership • The real work happens in the classroom!

3. The Galileo Institute’s Mission The Galileo Institute for Teacher Leadership atOakland University is dedicated to developing the leadership skills of educators in order to advance their professional contributions to school improvement and learning for all students.

4. Create leaderful organizations

5. “Leaderful” Organization • Create Professional Learning Communities • Practice Servant Leadership • Develop Mutually Supportive Relationships • Empowering All to Use Data in Decision Making

10. “I’ve got it, too, Omar . . . A strange feeling like we’ve just been going in circles.”

11. Services we can provide:

13. OAKLAND UNIVERSITY School of Education and Human Services announces a new program! Masters of Education Degree in Teacher Leadership Oakland University is offering an exciting 2 year teacher leadership cohort program comprised of 35 credit hours with a teacher friendly schedule of once-monthly Saturday meetings augmented by online sessions! We foster leadership development through an interactive set of experiences that include sound theoretical and "best practice" knowledge, problem-based coursework and field-based experiences. Oakland University graduate students in the teacher leadership program are empowered to become leaders committed to making schools culturally relevant, just and supportive learning environments which set and maintain high expectations • Data driven action research progressing developmentally from the teacher’s classroom, continuing with colleagues, and expanding to the building and organizational level • An appropriate blend of theoretical and practical experiences • Continuous site-based university faculty support of students as they engage in leadership activities • Opportunities to take leadership roles in a variety of settings • Connections to professional organizations • Emphasis on and integration of social justice, cultural competence, applied action research, data driven decision making, content study, critical reflection and problem based learning • Annual summer symposium on Teacher Leadership

19. Transformation of TeachingLieberman and Miller 2004 • From Individualism to Professional Community • From Teaching at the Center to Learning at the Center • From Technical and Managed Work to Inquiry and Leadership

20. Teacher Leadership Involves:Lieberman and Miller 2004 • Individual Teacher Leader Roles and Organizational Realities • Learning in Practice • Teacher Leadership and Reshaping School Culture

23. The Challenge: Yet an opportunity resides within each of those 2.2 million new teachers, and within the veterans as well, to become far more than “just a teacher” at a school whose only leader resides down the hall in the principal’s office. Each of these teachers can become—and must become—a school-based leader and thereby a school-based reformer. (Roland Barth)

24. “These teachers become owners and investors in the school, rather than mere tenants. They become professionals.” Roland Barth 2001

25. So, The Question is:

26. Can teacher leadership • Help meet external standards • Close achievement gaps • Enrich the profession • “Save” the principalship

27. And…. Can we….

28. Create leaderful organizations

29. For More Information: Bob Maxfield (maxfiel2@oakland.edu Kay Cornell (kaycornell@comcast.net