Peggy Stewart Education Consultant Link.Lead.Learn

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Inspiring Teacher Leadership in the New Era of
PARCC

• Peggy Stewart
  Education Consultant
  Link.Lead.Learn
• linkleadlearn.com

Tonya Breland Education Consultant Teach
Educators Scholars Org., LLC TESOConsulting.com
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Description

• Teacher leaders promote school and student
  success.  Administrators cannot flourish without
  engaging their teacher leaders to partner with
  them.  As schools embrace the transition to
  PARCC, they must rethink teaching and learning. 
• Learn how to inspire teachers to lead in this new
  era of PARCC and improve student progress and
  performance.

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Agenda

• Overview of Teacher Leadership
• Why Teacher Leadership
• Teacher Leadership Model Standards
• Building Capacity for Teacher Leadership
• Teacher Leadership in Practice
• Supporting and Inspiring Teacher Leaders

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Overview

• Teacher Leadership
• What is it?
• Why now in the era of PARCC?
• Teacher Leader Model Standards

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What is teacher leadership?

• Teacher leadership is the process by which
  teachers, individually or collectively, influence
  their colleagues, principals, and other members
  of the school community to improve teaching and
  learning practices with the aim of increased
  student learning and achievement.
• Teacher leadership is the process by which
  teachers, individually or collectively, influence
  their colleagues, principals, and other me
• Jennifer York-Barr learning practices
  with the aim of increased student learning and
  achievement

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Teacher Leadership

• See teachers as innovators, researchers,
  champions of student learning, leaders of
  colleagues and policy advocates

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What is Teacher Leadership?
What Is Actually Getting Done
What You Know Needs To Get Done
Breland and Stewart, January 21, 2015
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Teacher LeadersPromoting School and Student
Success
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Turn Talk

• How does your district/school define and promote
  teacher leadership?

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Why Now in This Era of PARRC?

• Highly effective teachers directly impact student
  learning
• Teacher leaders lead and influence change
• Teacher leaders support and train colleagues

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Did you know?

• Teacher leadership needs to be formalized and
  funded because there will be 2 million new
  teachers in classrooms around North America in
  the next six years, and they need leaders in the
  classroom that they can look up to and learn from
  as they negotiate through their first years of
  teaching.
• Becky Pringle, NEA

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Did you also know?

• When districts fail to use high-performing
  teachers to support their colleagues growth and
  development, administrators and coaches remain
  overburdened, and teachers-as well as many
  students are left lacking individualized support.
• Rachel Curtis, Aspen Institute

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Research

• Principals satisfaction with their jobs in the
  public schools has decreased nine percentage
  points since it was last measured in 2008. In
  that same period, teacher satisfaction has
  dropped precipitously by 23 percentage points,
  including a five-point decrease in the last year,
  to the lowest level it has been in the survey in
  25 years. A majority of teachers report that they
  feel under great stress at least several days a
  week, a significant increase from 1985 when this
• was last measured.
• MetLife Survey 2013

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More Research

• Teachers in the US spend 80 of their work day
  directly interacting with students, compared to
  60 of other industrialized countries. That
  leaves them less time to analyze data, plan
  instruction, and collaborate with colleagues, all
  activities that research ties to improvement in
  instruction and student outcomes.

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Potential Barriers

• Culture of district does not embrace teacher
  leadership
• Trust is not established among administration and
  teaching team
• Too much top-down leadership
• Teachers expertise and professionalism are
  undervalued
• Teacher leadership opportunities are limited

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Table Talk

• Identify List
• Barriers to Promoting Teacher Leadership in Your
  District or School

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Teacher Leader Model Standards
www.teacherleaderstandards.org
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Teacher Leader Model StandardsPurpose

• -the knowledge, skills and competencies that
  teachers need to assume leadership roles in their
  schools, districts, and the profession.

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Teacher Leader Model StandardsStructure and
Contexts

• Domain
• Seven domains that define the knowledge base
  needed by the teacher leader
• Functions
• Describe key actions and practices related to
  each domain

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Seven Domains of Teacher Leadership

• Domain I Fostering a Collaborative Culture to
  Support Educator Development and student learning
• Domain II Accessing and Using Research to
  Improve Practice and Student Outcomes
• Domain III Promoting Professional Learning for
  Continuous Improvement
• Domain IV Facilitating Improvements in
  Instruction and Student Learning
• Domain V Using Assessments and Data for Systemic
  Improvement
• Domain VI Improving Outreach and Collaboration
  with Families and Community
• Domain VII Advocating for Student Learning and
  the Profession

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Teacher Leader Model Standards

• What roles can/do
• teacher leaders play?
• What knowledge/skills
• do teacher leaders need?
• What pathways exist for
• teacher leaders?

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Building Capacity for Teacher Leadership

• Organizational structures and leadership models
• Selecting Teacher Leaders
• Building and Supporting Teacher Leaders

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Organizational Structures

• A.

B.
C.
D.
Duff, LFNJ2013
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Distributed Leadership Model

• Sources
• Ancona and Bresman. X-team how to build teams
  that lead, innovate, and succeed. Boston Harvard
  Business School Press, 2007
• Ancona, Malone, Orlikowski, Senge, In Praise of
  the Incomplete Leader. Harvard Business Review,
  February, 2007.

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www.nnstoy.org
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X Teams

• Sources
• Ancona and Bresman. X-team how to build teams
  that lead, innovate, and succeed. Boston Harvard
  Business School Press, 2007
• Ancona, Malone, Orlikowski, Senge, In Praise of
  the Incomplete Leader. Harvard Business Review,
  February, 2007.

Learn more about Teachers Leading at
www.nnstoy.org
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Selecting Teacher Leaders

• Use data to identify overall district goals
• Define roles/responsibilities of potential
  teacher leaders
• Develop process for selecting and training
  teacher leaders
• Develop process/system for implementing teacher
  leadership
• Anoint and Appoint (Smylie)

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Teacher Leader Model StandardsDesign and
Application

• The teacher leader model standards can be used to
  guide the preparation of experienced teachers to
  assume leadership roles such as resource
  providers, instructional specialists, curriculum
  specialists, classroom supporters, learning
  facilitators, mentors, school team leaders, and
  data coaches
• (Harrison Killion,
  2007)

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Teacher Leadership in Practice

• Our experiences as Teacher Leaders and Supporting
  Teacher Leaders

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Table Talk
How will you use this information to help you
work with others in building Teacher Leadership
in your school/district?
Breland and Stewart, January 21, 2015
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Resources - Webinar

• Teacher leadership with Chong-Hao Fu, Leading
  Educators and Ross Wiener, Aspen Institute.
• Teacher Leadership Roadmap
• Tuesday, January 27th, 2015 from 6-7PM EST
• Visit www.nnstoy.org for registration link or
  click on teacherleaderwebinar

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Resources

• Finding a New Way

Leading From the Front of the Classroom
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Resources

• TLMS

Teacher Leaders Not just a buzz phrase