Enacting Collaborative Leadership: The Promise and Practice of Teacher Leadership Development

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Abstract

This study explores teacher leadership as a driver for school improvement and highlights the role of coherent, sustained leadership development preparation in realizing the promise of teacher professionalization. We explore a district-university leadership development program created to build the capacity of teacher leaders across a large urban district. Teacher leaders worked with university partners and their administrators to develop school improvement plans. Findings indicate the priority teacher leaders give to proximal issues of equity (e.g., school culture, family partnerships) as a means for improving academic outcomes and the importance of administrators’ capacity to support the development of teacher leaders.

Authors

• Meredith Wronowski, University of Dayton

• Wesley Henry, Sacred Heart University

• Bryan A. VanGronigen, University of Delaware