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Collaborative Teacher Leadership

How Teachers Can Foster Equitable Schools

By: Martin L. Krovetz, Gilberto Arriaza

Who better to illustrate the challenges and rewards of teacher leadership than teachers themselves?

By placing teachers' voices and stories at the center of this book, authors Martin L. Krovetz and Gilberto Arriaza reveal how approaches like collaboration, the use of data, a focus on equity, and job-embedded professional development have been incorporated into real-world settings to lead and manage change successfully. This practical resource includes:

Essential questions that highlight critical chapter points
Reflective questions to help apply teacher stories to specific situations
Strategies for sustaining growth as a teacher leader

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412905022
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2006
Page Count: 216
Publication date: March 24, 2006

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"This is an insightful analysis on how to cultivate and empower teachers to become genuine leaders in their schools and classrooms, and an invaluable guide for any school district trying to implement genuine, sustainable reform."
-Pedro Noguera, Professor New York University

"The beauty of this book is the authenticity of the voices. The fact that struggles and conflicts are included make the teachers' stories believable, fresh, and inspiring."
-Pamela S. Hankins, Staff Development Specialist
Springfield Public Schools, MO

"Krovetz and Arriaza go directly to the source in this insightful look at the challenges, successes, and professional/personal transformations when teachers engage in collaborative leadership roles in the schools. A great read!"
-Robert Topf, Principal
Parkview Elementary School, San Jose, CA

"Reading about the field experiences of other teacher leaders will inspire and guide the reader towards making a positive impact on student achievement. This is a must-have book for any current or future teacher leader."
-Mike Greenwood, District Teacher Leader
Windsor Public Schools, CT

Who better to illustrate the challenges and rewards of teacher leadership than teachers themselves?
As the pressure of external accountability has intensified, teachers are being asked to play increasingly important leadership roles. Yet few teachers are prepared to accept this daunting responsibility without first building their leadership capacity.

By placing teachers' voices and stories at the center of this book, authors Martin L. Krovetz and Gilberto Arriaza reveal how approaches like collaboration, the use of data, a focus on equity, and job-embedded professional development have been incorporated into real-world settings to lead and manage change successfully.

Ideal for group study, this practical resource includes

Reflective questions to help apply teacher stories to specific situations
Dozens of first-person narratives representing a wide range of voices
Strategies for documenting and sustaining growth as a teacher leader

Based on the authors' work with hundreds of teacher leaders, this essential guide is ideal for teachers, administrators, leadership teams, and school improvement teams to achieve the goal of every school-maximizing student learning.

Key features

Focuses on how teacher leaders can help close the achievement gap
Full of teachers' stories, observations, and reflections on the challenges and possibilities of teacher leadership
Includes reflective questions and school applications, making this practical resource ideal for group study

Author(s)

Martin L. Krovetz

Martin L. Krovetz is the director of the Leading for Equity and Achievement Design (LEAD) Center, a regional center of the Coalition of Essential Schools. From 1991 to 2006, he was a professor of educational leadership at San Jose State University. During this time, he developed and coordinated the Master’s in Collaborative Leadership Program. From 1977 to 1991, he was a high school principal in Santa Cruz, California.

In addition to being the author of the Fostering Resillience, he is the author with Gilberto Arriaza of Collaborative Teacher Leadership: How Teachers Can Foster Equitable Schools, published by Corwin Press in 2006. He has published in numerous journals and presents at national conferences, including ASCD and the Coalition of Essential Schools.

He received his PhD in social psychology from the University of North Carolina and BA from the University of Florida.

Gilberto Arriaza

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

1. Reframing School Culture

What I Am Becoming

What Does This Look Like? Changing the Nature of Work

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

Endnotes

2. Learning to Lead

Why the Need to Distribute Leadership?

The Skills, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Skillful Teacher Leaders

New Roles, New Relationships

Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace

Essential Questions

Resources

Survey

How Did We Do? --A Teacher Survey

Endnotes

3. Influencing Student Learning

Closing the Achievement Gap and Habits of Mind

Valuing the Staff

Focusing Resources

Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace

Essential Questions

Resources

Endnotes

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

The Potential Power of Collaborative Action Research as a Methodology to Enact Schoolwide Sustained Change

Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace

Essential Questions

Resources

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

What Equity-Focused Schools Look Like

Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace

Essential Questions

Resources

Endnote

6. Advocating for Students and Teachers

Advocacy: Adding Voice to a Cry

Advocacy for Students

The Whole Child

Supporting Parents as Advocates for Student Learning

Advocacy for Beginning Teachers

Advocacy for Teachers

Political Advocacy

Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace

Essential Questions

Resources

Endnote

7. Courageous Followers and Leaders

Spreading One's Wings: Lessons Learned While Becoming Leaders of Change and Transition

Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change

The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To and For Our Leaders

Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace

Essential Questions

Resources

Conclusion

Appendix A: List of Contributors

References

Index

Reviews

"The beauty of this book is the authenticity of the voices. The fact that struggles and conflicts are included make the teachers' stories believable, fresh, and inspiring."

Pamela S. Hankins, Staff Development Specialist
Springfield Public Schools, MO

"Reading about the field experiences of other teacher leaders will inspire and guide the reader toward making a positive impact on student achievement. This is a must-have book for any current or future teacher leader."

Mike Greenwood, District Teacher Leader
Windsor Public Schools, CT

"Krovetz and Arriaza go directly to the source in this insightful look at the challenges, successes and professional/personal transformations when teachers engage in collaborative leadership roles in the schools. Through interviews and reflections, the reader gains an in-depth view of how teacher leadership can make a difference in the quality of schooling for students, faculty and school communities. A great read!"

Robert Topf, Principal
Parkview Elementary School, San Jose, CA

"This engaging analysis targets leadership in schools where equity and achievement can thrive . . . Here is advice and assurance from the heart of the work - and evidence-based resource for anyone interested in strengthening, or preparing, school leaders."

Grace Hoagland, Senior Lecturer
Department of Educational Leadership, California State University East Bay

"This is an insightful analysis on how to cultivate and empower teachers to become genuine leaders in their schools and classrooms, and an invaluable guide for any school district trying to implement genuine, sustainable reform."

Pedro Noguera, Professor
Steinhardt School of Education, New York University

"The organization of the text is clear and practical. A major strength of this text lies in the fact that its ideas and perspectives are grounded in the research and practice of those who have experimented with and successfully experienced the context of collaborative teacher leadership. The teacher voices are authentic, their insights are provocative, and their focus on student learning is unwavering."

Jane Nicolet
Teachers College Record

"This volume is very user-friendly and is designed for immediate use as an action guide to initiate educational change in schools. Filled with resources, strategies for applying the concepts in the workplace, and both reflective and essential questions that teacher leaders will find valuable."

PsycCRITIQUES, August 2007, Vol. 52(33)

"The text's ideas and perspectives are grounded in the research and practice of those who have experimented with and successfully experienced the context of collaborative teacher leadership. The teacher voices are authentic, their insights are provocative, and their focus on student learning is unwavering."

Teachers College Record, June 2006

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