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Teacher Leadership Skills Framework: School and District Capacity Tool to Support Teacher Leadership

Part of the toolkit offered by the Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession (CSTP) to support the development of teacher-leaders, this tool is designed to help school and district leaders determine systems readiness for teacher-leaders, support their work, and aid their professional development.

Developing School Leaders: What the U.S. Can Learn From England’s Model

Recent reforms in England’s school system have led to the distribution in state schools of leadership responsibilities across administrators and teachers. Middle-level teacher-leaders are curriculum experts who lead teams of teachers, offering instructional support and taking accountability for the performance of the team and its students.

Building a Lattice for School Leadership

This report offers an international perspective on teacher leadership, focusing on reforms within England’s school system. The reforms led to three leadership levels, including middle-level teachers who take responsibility for teaching and leading in a grade level or cluster, or subject area.

Teach Plus T3 and C2

The Teach Plus T3 Initiative recruits, develops, and supports highly effective, experienced teachers to lead teams in turnaround efforts in low-performing schools. T3 teacher-leaders serve as full-time classroom teachers while also leading teams of teachers and receive ongoing professional learning. The C2 Initiative offers a series of five-week, teacher-led training sessions focused on the Common Core State Standards, which aims to ensure a smooth transition to the standards.

Reading Recovery: Teacher Leader Training Information

This two-year, full-time program from National Louis University focuses specifically on training teachers to lead Reading Recovery programs in their schools. 

Ten Roles for Teacher Leaders

This journal article from Educational Leadership provides brief descriptions of several common teacher leadership roles, including a short vignette describing each role.

The Teacher Leadership Competencies

This set of teacherleadership competencies developed by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, the National Education Association, and the Center for Teaching Quality is designed to be a resource for teacherleaders who want to further refine their leadership in three areas: instruction, policy, and collective action. Each of the competencies includes a description of what it means to be emerging, developing, performing and transforming in a particular area.  

Who Enters Teaching? Encouraging Evidence That the Status of Teaching Is Improving

This working paper from the Calder Center analyzes 25 years of data on the academic ability of teachers in New York State and finds widespread and continuously increasing gains in the academic ability of certified teachers as well as those entering teaching. The report identifies a decrease over time in the gap between academic ability of teachers at high and low poverty schools, and between white and minority teachers.

Supporting Student Success Through Time and Technology

This study by The National Center on Time & Learning takes an in-depth look at blended learning and expanded time in six schools, both traditional and charter, across the United States. The study includes a profile of each school and a seven-step plan to implement a blended learning program.

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