Emerging Options for New Teacher Leader Roles

Teach Plus, an advocacy organization dedicated to keeping high-performing teachers in the classroom, has a program that recruits, develops, and supports highly effective, experienced teachers to serve as teacher leaders in low-performing schools. This Web resource describes the eligibility criteria, application process, and roles and responsibilities of master teachers in its T3 program. 

As part of its Opportunity Culture initiative, Public Impact has developed detailed descriptions of several school models that enable excellent teachers to reach more students for more pay, within budget, in high-accountability and high-authority roles. This Web resource describes how teachers in one of these models, Multi-Classroom Leadership, are able to lead teams of other teachers to reach the leaders’ standards of excellence. It also provides several examples of schools that have used Multi-Classroom Leadership.