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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"Teacher Leaders"”.
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Perceptions Of Empowered Teacher Leaders
<p>Teacher Leadership movements over the last 30 years have attempted to create leadership opportunities within and across an organization. The purpose of this mixed method case study was to evaluate the impact of a district’s teacher leadership opportunities to reduce teacher isolation and …
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Teacher Leaders and Self-efficacy
<p>Teacher leaders, who are stakeholders in the school and implement policies designed to improve student achievement, are a crucial part of educational reform efforts. However, the responsibilities of teacher leaders vary widely at the site level. Teacher leaders’ self-efficacy must be substantive …
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Educational Leadership in Middle Schools: Informal Teacher Leaders
<p>Quality educational leadership has been shown to have a strong positive relationship with student achievement (Louis et al., 2010). Successful schools do not depend upon a single charismatic leader but on many individuals collaborating and using their collective leadership skills (Grissam et …
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Influences on the development of informal teacher leaders
… the influences on the development of informal teacher leaders. An informal teacher leader is a classroom teacher who has the ability to influence other teachers because of specific characteristics and behaviors. While the informal teacher leader may have held such leadership roles as committee …
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Teacher Leaders’ Experiences and Perceptions from Program to Practice
<p>Most studies dedicated to investigating teacher leadership has focused on the impact teacher leaders (TLs) have with professional development and enhancing other teachers' performances or conquering a school's improvement plan. Few studies have set out to explore the impact preparatory teacher …
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Leading for change : teacher leaders changing the instructional landscape.
… purpose was to identify the critical role of teacher leaders in providing instructional support in small, rural school districts to evaluate how teacher leaders conducting action coaching impacts instructional practices, teacher support, and leadership opportunities, ultimately fostering …
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Challenging Our Sense of Ourselves: Teacher Leaders' Transformative Learning Experiences
<p>It is important to understand the ways teacher leaders undergo a transformation of their professional selves as they move from being a teacher to teacher leader. This qualitative study examined the ways teacher leaders made sense of their teacher leadership experiences, thus, exploring the …
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"Hanging On With Both Hands": Teacher Leaders and Small School Reform
… These smaller schools have a higher demand for teacher leadership, yet little is known about the characteristics and experiences of those teachers who choose to take informal leadership roles. This study interviewed 23 participants from four schools, two districts, and an outside support agency …
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First Fellowship Then Followership: Training for a New Generation of Teacher Leaders
The teachers' lounge was once the only oasis of camaraderie among teachers engaged in the rigors of public education. Today, fellowship among teachers looks quite different and is no longer relegated to the teachers' lounge. Indeed, in a successful school it is pervasive, and so are the teachers …
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Teacher Leaders’ Perceptions Of Their Influence On The Distributed Leadership Process At A Middle School
… qualitative study explores the perspectives of teacher leaders within the middle school setting as to how they perceive their role influences the distributed leadership process. Five significant themes, with subthemes emerged from the data as a result of the analysis process. These themes were …
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“We’re All Teachers Here!”: The Role Peer Relationships Play in Teacher Leaders’ Influence in Schools
<p>Over the past decade, teacher leadership has become a critical component of igniting and sustaining local school improvement. Yet, the effectiveness of this distributed leadership model hinges on teacher leaders' ability to effectively influence the practices of their colleagues. The foundation …
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Principals and Teacher Leaders Co-Constructing Theories in Practice: Empowerment and Accountability Exchanged Through School Leadership
… to examine the extent to which the principal and teacher leaders at four purposefully selected schools collaboratively developed theories in practice related to the exchange between empowerment and accountability envisioned by education reform writers. The researcher posited that the tradeoff …
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Illinois Teacher Leaders' Perceptions of the Meanings and Significance of Strikes for Teachers and Teachers' Organizations
The problem posed by the study was to investigate teacher strike leaders' opinions of collective bargaining and their strike experience to provide answers to five questions: (1)Who are the teacher union strike leaders and what motivates them?; (2)What do teacher strike leaders believe about the …
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Principals' Support for Teacher Leaders at Elementary Schools in a Large Suburban School District in Virginia
The role of teacher leaders in schools is becoming more prevalent as educators examine ways to insure systemic change. It is based on the assumption that education will improve when those closest to the situation are included and encouraged to not only participate in the decision-making process, …
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A Case Study: The Impact of An Immersion Experience on the Vocation of Lay Teacher-Leaders in American Jesuit High Schools
… a least developed country on the vocation of lay teacher leaders in American Jesuit High Schools. Nine lay teacher leaders engaged in a four stage process of immersion from November 2009 to August 2010. The study employed the conceptual framework of Edward Hahnenberg's, "Awakening Vocation" to …
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A Study of the Implementation of Multi-Tiered System of Supports in One School
… the lens of kindergarten through fifth-grade teachers and teacher leaders who participate in the school-wide MTSS process. The context of this inquiry was one elementary school in a large urban district where teachers had implemented MTSS for several years. I used a mixed methods research …
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Teacher Perceptions of their Responsibilities as Site based Leaders in Mentoring Colleagues
<p>In a school setting, teachers may serve as leaders as well as classroom teachers. In any school, principals are unable to run a school without the help of others. This help often comes from classroom teachers who are supporting student and school needs by taking on leadership roles. The focus of …
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THE IMPACT OF FORMAL TEACHER-LED INSTRUCTIONAL COACHING
… of this study was to evaluate the impact of teacher leadership through instructional coaching. This study was designed to find the appropriate structures that promote teacher leadership with a specific focus on using a distributed leadership model of school leadership that develops and …
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Service Learning- It’s Elementary! Teacher initiated service learning at an independent school
… in schools is meaningful and successful falls to teacher leaders with little specific training on organizing such efforts. This research inquiry examined the experiences of nontraditional teacher leaders and the choices they made while designing and implementing service learning projects for their …
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Bending Boundaries: The Practice of Teacher Leadership
Teacher leadership is often an underutilized and unrealized resource in elementary schools. Teacher leadership manifests itself in a variety of ways, via formal and informal roles. This study aimed to understand the development, expression, and influence of teacher leadership in Wisconsin public …
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