Collaborative Teacher Leadership : How Teachers Can Foster Equitable Schools.
The authors present teachers' own observations and reflections on leadership to demonstrate how teacher leaders can help close the achievement gap.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Chapter 1
- Reframing School Culture
- What I am becoming
- What Does This Look Like? Changing the Nature of Work
- Professional Growth
- Why Do it? It is about Quality of Life and Learning!
- Fostering Resiliency: A Lens for Reframing Culture
- Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace
- Essential Questions
- Resources
- Tools
- Organizations
- Resiliency
- Endnotes
- Chapter 2
- Learning to Lead
- Why the Need to Distribute Leadership?
- What is Distributed Leadership?The Skills, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Skillful Teacher Leaders
- New Roles, New Relationships
- Teachers Educating Each Other
- Teachers as Advocates
- Leading and Managing Change
- Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace
- Essential Questions
- Resources
- Tools
- Organizations
- Survey
- How Did We Do? � A Teacher Survey
- Endnotes
- Chapter 3
- Influencing Student Learning
- Closing the Achievement Gap and Habits of Mind
- Valuing the Staff
- Focusing Resources
- Community and School Setting
- Community and School DemographicsMaterial, Economic, and Human Resources at the Site
- Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace
- Essential Questions
- Resources
- Community Connections
- Community Mapping
- Gap Analysis
- Endnotes
- Chapter 4
- The Role of Inquiry
- Definition of Collaborative Action Research
- Collaborative Action Research, When Well Conducted, brings out the Best in Its Members
- Action Research Has an Invaluable Application to the Classroom
- Methodology
- Results
- Conclusions and Recommendations
- The Potential Power of Collaborative Action Research as a Methodology to Enact Schoolwide Sustained ChangeApplying the Concepts in Your Workplace
- Essential Questions
- Resources
- The Five Whys
- Chapter 5
- Building Equity in Diverse Classrooms
- Distributing Teachers� Work
- Personalizing Teaching and Learning
- Students� Academic Performance at the Center of Staff Conversations
- Having the Equity Conversation
- The Work
- Results
- What Equity-Focused Schools Look Like
- Academic Success
- High Expectations
- Culture of Evidence
- PersonalizationNetworking
- Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace
- Essential Questions
- Resources
- Endnote
- Chapter 6
- Advocating for Students and Teachers
- Advocacy: Adding Voice to a Cry
- Advocacy for Students
- Special Needs Students
- The Whole Child
- Supporting Parents as Advocates for Student Learning
- Advocacy for beginning Teachers
- Advocacy for Teachers
- Quality Professional Development
- Equitable Working Conditions
- Political Advocacy
- Working to Impact Policy
- The Attempted Solution
- Team Growth