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Awakening the Sleeping Giant

Helping Teachers Develop as Leaders
The book discusses the challenges that teacher leaders face, such as deciding to accept a leadership role, building principal–teacher leader relationships, and working with peers.

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  • Grade Level: K-12
  • ISBN: 9781412960403
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2009
  • Page Count: 240
  • Publication date: July 06, 2009
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Leadership Solutions

"The ultimate for those who promote teacher leadership and those who would be teacher leaders."
—Roland S. Barth, Educational Consultant
Author, Lessons Learned

"Katzenmeyer and Moller usher in a new age of teacher leadership, an age of mutuality in learning and leading, broad-based participation, and shared responsibility. Their work is based on the powerful assumption that all of us—especially teachers—have the right, capacity, and responsibility to lead."
—Linda Lambert, Professor Emeritus
California State University, Hayward

"This seminal text left me nothing short of energized when I first picked it up almost ten years ago. Filled with new surveys, tools, and suggestions for today's teacher leader, the newest edition is simply a must-read for anyone driving meaningful change in the classrooms of our country."
—Bill Ferriter, Senior Fellow
Teacher Leaders Network

Empower teachers as leaders to improve student learning and performance!

This third edition of a bestseller draws on the authors' two decades of experience in studying and observing the work of teacher leaders. Marilyn Katzenmeyer and Gayle Moller expand on the definition of leadership and its importance to improving outcomes in schools, and cover the career-long development of teacher leaders from preservice preparation programs through ongoing support for veteran teacher leaders.

This exceptional, teacher-focused resource discusses three factors critical to stepping into a leadership role: sustaining teacher leadership relationships between adults in the school, organizational structures, and the actions of the principal. The authors discuss the challenges that many teacher leaders face, including:

  • Deciding to accept a leadership role
  • Building principal–teacher leader relationships
  • Working with peers
  • Facilitating professional learning for themselves and others

With the latest research from the teacher leadership literature and new teacher inventories and surveys, this updated edition of Awakening the Sleeping Giant demonstrates the benefits of investing in teachers and their learning to sustain meaningful change in today's schools.

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Author(s)

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Marilyn H. Katzenmeyer

Marilyn Katzenmeyer is president of Professional Development Center, Inc., and she currently engages in consultation, instructional design, and professional writing. She most recently served as a faculty administrator at the University of South Florida, where she was responsible for the development and implementation of the Executive Leaders Program, a leadership development opportunity for school-based administrators and teacher leaders who were transitioning into district-level leadership roles, and for the coordination of a Transition to Teaching project with a local school district. She was formerly executive director of the West Central Educational Leadership Network, which provided leadership training and school improvement assistance to educators throughout 13 school districts in southwest Florida. She has been a human resource development professional throughout her career, and she was the first director of the Broward County School District (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) Human Resource Development Department.

Katzenmeyer worked in Ohio and Florida as a secondary school teacher. She received her doctorate in adult education from The Florida State Uni¬versity. Her research focused on effective strategies for measuring the impact of leadership training programs on the behavior of school administrators.

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Gayle Moller
Gayle Moller recently retired as associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Foundations at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. She was formerly executive director of the South Florida Center for Educational Leaders. The Center served large, urban school systems in South Florida that provided staff development for school leaders. Moller worked in the Broward County Public Schools (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) for 19 years as a teacher, school administrator, and staff development administrator. She received her doctorate from Teachers College/Columbia University. Teacher leadership and professional learning communities are her research interests. Moller served on the board of trustees of the National Staff Development Council. She is a co-author, with Anita Pankake, of Lead with Me: A Principal’s Guide to Teacher Leadership.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

1. Understanding Teacher Leadership

Teacher Leadership Emerges

Definition of Teacher Leadership

Three Potential Teacher Leaders

Readiness for Teacher Leadership

Who Is Responsible?

Conclusion

Application Challenges

2. Promoting Teacher Leadership

Rationale for Teacher Leadership

Benefits of Teacher Leadership

Teacher Leadership Assumptions

Conclusion

Application Challenges

3. Developing Teacher Leaders

Professional Development for Teacher Leaders

Leadership Development for Teachers

A Development Model for Teacher Leadership

Conclusion

Application Challenges

4. Understanding Myself and Others as Teachers and Leaders

Professional Teaching Skills

Teacher Uniqueness

Reluctant Learners and Leaders

Acknowledging Diversity

Conclusion

Application Challenges

5. Building a Culture That Supports Teacher Leadership

Dimensions of School Culture

Relationships Between Adults in the School

Organizational Structure

Actions of the Principal

Conclusion

Application Challenges

6. Influencing Others Through Teacher Leadership

Influence With Instructional Competence

How Teachers Influence

Influencing Skills

Teacher Leader Action in Schools

Conclusion

Application Challenges

7. Emerging Teacher Leadership and Its Challenges

Evolution of Teacher Leadership

Many Faces of Teacher Leadership

Challenges for Teacher Leaders

Conclusion

Application Challenges

8. Building a Future for Teacher Leadership

Teacher Leadership in the Future

Teacher Leader Concerns

Teacher Leaders as Advocates for Change

Conclusion

Resource A. A Resource for Teacher Leadership: Philosophy of Education Inventory© (PEI©)

Resource B. Teacher Leader School Survey (TLSS)

Resource C. Time for Teacher Leadership

Resource D. Teacher Leadership Books, Instruments, and Organizations

References

Index

Reviews

Quote by Roland S. Barth, Educational Consultant, Author, Lessons Learned: "The ultimate for those who promote teacher leadership and those who would be teacher leaders."
"The ultimate for those who promote teacher leadership and those who would be teacher leaders."
Roland S. Barth, Educational Consultant
Author, Lessons Learned
Quote by Bill Ferriter, Senior Fellow, Teacher Leaders Network: "This seminal text left me nothing short of energized when I first picked it up almost ten years ago. Drawing from their continued experience developing and defining teacher leadership, Katzenmeyer and Moller bring additional transparency to a widely recognized concept that remains poorly understood. Filled with new surveys, tools, and suggestions for today’s teacher leader, the newest edition is simply a must-read for anyone driving meaningful change in the classrooms of our country."
"This seminal text left me nothing short of energized when I first picked it up almost ten years ago. Drawing from their continued experience developing and defining teacher leadership, Katzenmeyer and Moller bring additional transparency to a widely recognized concept that remains poorly understood. Filled with new surveys, tools, and suggestions for today’s teacher leader, the newest edition is simply a must-read for anyone driving meaningful change in the classrooms of our country."
Bill Ferriter, Senior Fellow
Teacher Leaders Network
Quote by Linda Lambert, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Hayward: "Katzenmeyer and Moller usher in a new age of teacher leadership, an age of mutuality in learning and leading, broad-based participation, and shared responsibility. Their work is based on the powerful assumption that all of us—especially teachers—have the right, capacity, and responsibility to lead."
"Katzenmeyer and Moller usher in a new age of teacher leadership, an age of mutuality in learning and leading, broad-based participation, and shared responsibility. Their work is based on the powerful assumption that all of us—especially teachers—have the right, capacity, and responsibility to lead."
Linda Lambert, Professor Emeritus
California State University, Hayward

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