Career Advancement

This resource highlights three categories of approaches that states and districts can take to promote or support teacher leadership by examining nine different types of strategies for each approach. Each strategy features examples from states embedding the strategy into their approaches to foster teacher leadership.

This program provides ongoing professional development by positioning expert teachers as coaches within their school communities. These coaches conduct observations and give feedback to teachers in the school, while remaining teachers of their own classes as well.

This program, established by District of Columbia Public Schools, aims to retain high-performing teachers by creating opportunities for career advancement through a five-stage ladder. Increased financial compensation will be provided to teachers as they advance the ladder.

The brief outlines five opportunity culture principles to implement sustainable and effective strategies for extending the reach of excellent teachers and principals to more students and teachers.

This report outlines strategies for extending the reach of high-performing teachers to more children while providing those teachers with multiple avenues for advancing their achievement and impact within teaching.

The infographic highlights how extending the reach of great teachers and their teams builds an “opportunity culture” in which all teachers and students can excel. In opportunity culture roles, great teachers choose to extend their reach to more students and support other teachers’ success, without increasing instructional group sizes.

This brief provides an overview of current tiered licensure policies across the United States.

The Leadership Initiative For Teachers (LIFT) is a five-stage career ladder that provides high-performing teachers with opportunities for advancement inside the classroom, as well as additional responsibility and increased recognition and compensation.

This toolkit includes a synthesis of research on teacher leadership, current examples, and useful tools for designing, implementing, and supporting teacher leadership initiatives.

This brief outlines strategies to improve teacher retention and address shortages by providing teacher leadership opportunities to highly effective teachers.