Strategic Foresight in Teacher Leadership

• In Event: Working Together: Research, Researchers, and Teacher Organizations

Abstract

Several teacher organizations have developed policies to strengthen the professional side of the union work, while also addressing teachers’ conditions of practice directly. Moving even further beyond this delicate balance is a promising development being pursued in a Canadian pilot project to develop teacher leaders and their organizations committed to strategic foresight and futures thinking. This initiative involves taking up the growing international interest in futures literacy. The paper will offer examples of course participant research papers and exemplars of their efforts to apply strategic foresight to rethinking teacher leadership both across school systems and teacher organizations. .

Author

• Jean-Claude Couture, University of Alberta