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1.4 Teacher Leadership Leadership is developed and involved at all stakeholder levels, with a strong emphasis on teacher leadership. 
Level of Performance: Exceeds Standards
Related Resources Tools NEW! Dialogue Guide for Facilitators Dialogue Guides are models for conducting interactive discussions across stakeholders in states and districts. These packages make new use of dependable and publicly available information. Each Guide circulates a common set of source materials and suggested procedures for involving various audiences. In this manner, stakeholders (families, practitioners, professional associations, professors, policymakers, legislators) all over the country can begin interacting in new ways around implementation issues. Publication Date: May 2005 Publisher: IDEA, NASDSE, US Office of Special Education Criteria for Selecting School Leadership Team Members This tool from Nine Lessons of Successful School Leadership Teams: Distilling a Decade of Innovation presents criteria that can help select members of a school leadership team. Author: Bill McKeever Publication Date: 2003 Publisher: WestEd Identifying and Implementing Educational Practices Supported By Rigorous Evidence (to edit this resource, contact WestEd) This guide, developed by the US Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, provides educational practitioners with the tools needed to distinguish interventions supported by scientifically-rigorous evidence from those that are not. Publication Date: December 2003 Publisher: U.S. Department of Education Leadership Skills Needed by School Leadership Teams This checklist from Nine Lessons of Successful School Leadership Teams: Distilling a Decade of Innovation presents a variety of skills and considerations that contribute to team success. Categories include team development, organizational culture, leadership, systems thinking, teaching and learning research, and standards-based practice. Author: Bill McKeever Publication Date: 2003 Publisher: WestEd Articles NEW! What Content-Area Teachers Should Know About Adolescent Literacy This report suggests methods for improving adolescent learners reading and writings skills in the classroom. Author: Kris Anstrom and Trenace Richardson Tanya Shuy Rebecca J. Moak and Mary A. Campbell Peggy McCardle a Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development NEW! What Keeps Good Teachers in the Classroom? Understanding and Reducing Teacher Turnover This article discusses the costs associated with teachers leaving, the characteristics of those most likely to leave, and what can be done to prevent turnover. Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: Alliance for Excellent Education NEW! Classroom Walkthroughs: Learning to see the trees and the forest Pilter and Goodwin discuss how to effectively use walkthroughs to collect data and provide useful feedback to educators to improve instruction. Author: Howard Pitler with Bryan Goodwin Publication Date: Summer 2008 Publisher: Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) NEW! Three Simple Secrets of School-Based Coaching The author gives some anecdotal pointers she has learned over her 15 years as a school-based literacy coach. Author: Juli Kendall Publication Date: November 29, 2006 Publisher: Teacher Magazine Building Capacity for Embedded Professional Learning: A Case Study This article describes a teacher-to-teacher leadership initiative introduced throughout the Fort Worth Independent School district to train teachers to raise the level of thinking and questioning of all students in the district, in order to prepare them for new skills required on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS). Author: Paula Mower Publication Date: Spring/Summer 2005 Publisher: Texas Association of School Administrators Differentiation in Diverse Settings: A Consultants Experiences in Two Similar School Districts Dr. Tomlinson describes how two districts and their leadership pursue different approaches to addressing the issues of implementing differentiated instruction throughout their schools. Particular attention is given to outlining an effective leadership plan for success in meeting the needs of diverse learners through differentiation. Author: Carol Ann Tomlinson Publication Date: August, 2004 Publisher: American Association of School Administrators Instructional Coaches Make Progress Through Partnership This article discusses the role of an instructional coach. Author: Jim Knight Publication Date: 2004 Publisher: National Staff Development Council (NSDC) Instructional Coaching This article provides eight factors for realizing better classroom teaching through support, feedback and intensive, individualized professional learning. Author: Jim Knight Publication Date: 2006 Publisher: American Association of School Administrators Strengthening the School’s Backbone Danielson argues that teacher leadership is often displayed through actions undertaken outside of formal leadership roles. While staff developers may not be directly involved in the designation of these leaders, as they might with department chairs or team leaders, it is asserted that they still play an important part in their development. In order to help teachers become leaders, staff developers must provide them formal training in the types of planning, collaboration, communication, and facilitation which will be necessary to promote their ideas. Less formally, administrators must also demonstrate support for teacher leaders by publicly recognizing those ideas among the teachers’ colleagues, helping teachers think through their ideas and plans of action, getting support from the larger administrative team, gaining access to additional resources (not necessarily monetary), and voicing support to parents. Author: Charlotte Danielson Publication Date: Spring 2005 Publisher: National Staff Development Council (NSDC) The Price of Accountability This article discusses the reorganization of schools in order to respond to external pressure of accountability. Author: Richard Elmore Publication Date: 2002 Publisher: National Staff Development Council (NSDC) Why New Teachers Leave This article discusses some of the issues new teachers face that eventually make them leave the teaching profession. Author: Leslie Baldacci Publication Date: 2006 Publisher: American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Useful Links NEW! Dr. Archer Video Series “Dr. Anita Archer is a talented author and beloved teacher of teachers. This video series is one of her many gifts to the educational community. Produced with support from the Sonoma County Office of Education, it is made available at no cost thanks to her generous spirit. The series addresses strategic literacy instruction in grades K-8 using a “research to practice” approach grounded in pragmatic real-world application. Each video is 4 to 8 minutes long, has a particular strategic focus, and was shot unrehearsed in real time. A short viewing guide is included for each video, providing guidance for viewing and feedback for post-viewing applications.” Sonoma County Office of Education Author: Dr. Anita Archer Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: Sonoma County Office of Education NEW! Tiered Instruction/Intervention The site offers details and information on the RtI process and articles as well as descriptions of the three tiers. Publication Date: Retrieved November 2008 Publisher: RTI Action Network Acronyms in Education This is a list, arranged alphabetically, defining education acronyms Author: Schools Moving Up Publication Date: 1995-2007 Publisher: WestEd Nine Lessons of Successful School Leadership Teams: Distilling a Decade of Innovation This book uses case studies to help demonstrate the strategies that have been found to help school leadership teams focus on and increase student achievement across schools and districts during a decade of work with the California School Leadership Academy. Author: Bill McKeever Publication Date: 2003 Publisher: WestEd ©2005 WestEd. All rights reserved.  |
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