Professional Learning for Building Teacher Leadership Capacity: Comparative Case Study of Two Programs

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Abstract

Teacher leadership has been promoted as a solution to a number of educational issues. However, there are very few empirical studies about in-service programs aimed at developing the skills and knowledge necessary for the exercise of teacher leadership. In order to fill this gap, this mixed methods study aims to compare between the processes that two professional development (PD) programs that build teacher leadership capacity use, their impact on the skills, knowledge and attitudes of practitioners as well as their outcomes on factors of school capacity for instructional improvement.

Author

• Stephanie Gabriella Jureidini, University of Wisconsin - Madison