1st Edition
Teacher Leadership Practice in High-Performing Schools A Blueprint for Excellence
This practical book shares key lessons learned from highly effective, award-winning National Blue Ribbon Schools. Teacher Leadership Practice in High-Performing Schools explores the important role teachers have in leading schools, the balance administrators must strike between providing teachers with support and trusting them as professionals, and the ways that educators in these schools frequently collaborate across roles and do not operate in isolation. Following vignettes inspired by real schools, each chapter explains and unpacks key lessons learned, situates these lessons within the literature, offers readers robust tools to apply these lessons in their own schools, and includes questions designed to encourage reflection on school practices. This exciting new book helps schools, leadership teams, and individual educators reflect on teacher leadership practice in their schools and determine concrete next steps to increase and improve the impact of teacher leadership.
1: Who Are These Schools, and Why Should I Care? 2: Supporting Teacher Leadership for Excellence 3: Stepping Up to Get Stuff Done 4: Supported Autonomy: An Empowering Balance for Teachers’ Practice 5: Collaborative Professionalism for Teams’ Work
Biography
Jeremy D. Visone is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Instructional Technology at Central Connecticut State University, USA. He is a former principal of a National Blue Ribbon School.
"With captivating voice and research about strategies National Blue Ribbon Schools leveraged for success, Teacher Leadership Practice in High-Performing Schools provides insight and practical applications for schools to improve student outcomes.”
Bethany Mather, Adjunct Professor of Education, Westfield State University and Grade 4 Teacher, Farmington River Regional Schools, USA.
