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Unleashing Teacher Leadership: A Toolkit for Ensuring Effective Instruction in Every Classroom
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A toolkit of field-tested strategies to help teacher leaders maximize their effectiveness.
Unleashing Teacher Leadership presents best practices and tools that teacher leaders can use to unlock their own power and drive lasting instructional improvement across schools and districts.
Product overview
A toolkit of field-tested strategies to help teacher leaders maximize their effectiveness.
The teacher leaders who get the best results are the ones who explore the role’s full potential, but it can be a challenge to get beyond a basic understanding of the responsibilities involved. The National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET) wants to make it easier.
Unleashing Teacher Leadership presents best practices and tools that teacher leaders can use to unlock their own power and drive lasting instructional improvement across schools and districts. Current and future teacher leaders will learn how to
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Examine their context as instructional experts.
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Understand their approach to leadership and how to work with other leaders in their school.
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Develop expertise in evidence-based instructional practice.
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Support the implementation of high-quality curriculum.
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Build effective learning environments and support colleagues’ efforts to do the same.
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Understand how to use data and assessment to support student learning and inform instructional practice.
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Acquire coaching skills to help build colleagues’ capacity.
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Lead effective collaboration and scale teacher effectiveness.
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Use their voice to influence decisions that affect students and fellow teachers.
Along with guidance on these practices and skills, readers will get the perspectives of teacher leaders engaged in this work and acquire dozens of NIET-developed tools they can use to unleash the power of effective teacher leadership in their own school and district.
This book is a copublication of ASCD and the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching.
Praise for Unleashing Teacher Leadership
“Using the strategies developed by NIET and featured in this book, teacher leaders in my district are better equipped to guide, coach, and empower teachers while keeping student achievement front and center.”
—Dr. Ameca Thomas, superintendent, Laurens County School District 55, South Carolina
“My experience in policy and practice is that teacher leadership is a catalyst for improvements in both teaching and learning. As leaders focus on how to improve instruction across a district, teacher leadership is a strategy they would do well to explore.”
—Ray Simon, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education and Chief State School Officer in Arkansas
“Without question, formal teacher leadership opportunities that are well-defined and supported produce growth—teacher growth, student growth, and personal growth.”
—Dr. Candice McQueen, president, Lipscomb University, Tennessee, and former Tennessee Commissioner of Education
“Teacher leadership holds tremendous potential to improve instruction for students that are underserved and lack access to great classroom teaching. It is also a way to open new leadership opportunities for a diverse population of teachers. A teacher workforce that is reflective of the communities and students it serves is good for kids and communities and good for the profession.”
—Dr. Wayne D. Lewis Jr., president, Houghton University, New York, and former Kentucky Commissioner of Education
“The most effective leaders create an environment that attracts and retains teachers by opening doors for teachers to grow their leadership skills and take on new roles. This book provides a practical guide for teachers and leaders to build their own skills and improve their students’ classroom experiences.”
—Dr. Ted Sanders, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education, past president of the Education Commission of the States, and previous Chief State School Officer in Nevada, Illinois, and Ohio
