Teacher Leadership For The 21st Century

Download or read book Sustaining Teacher Leadership written by Linda Dawson Gonzales and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustaining Teacher Leadership describes a model for linking leadership and learning and identifies six components necessary for enabling a culture for teacher leadership: learning, valuing, nurturing, supporting, sharing, and coaching. The model is based on an historical review of artifacts from earlier qualitative studies, which report on eight years of a middle school's restructuring and restructuring experiences. The book also describes the development of a learning culture and five teachers' identification with a democratic teacher-leadership style. Five teacher-leader participants with full time teaching responsibilities were selected from teachers who had participated for four or more years in the enabling school culture and transferred together to a newly opening school.