Hashtag Teachers: Transformative Teacher Leadership and Learning in the Digital Era

• In Event: 54.048 - Technological Tools: Teaching, Learning, and Leading in a Digital Era

Abstract

This study provides a portrait of grassroots teacher leadership and learning in the digital era. Through an analysis of narratives of 15 teachers that have a social justice orientation and use connected technologies to connect and learn professionally, the study highlights eight common themes of understanding and learning across the teachers’ stories. Drawing from this analysis and using a developmental perspective on teacher learning, the author offers a developmental framework that describes a learning spectrum of critically connected educators. The findings and framework address a gap in literature on models of teacher learning and leadership which address both teaching for social justice and technology use.

Author

• Kira J. Baker-Doyle, Arcadia University