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Uncovering Teacher Leadership

Essays and Voices From the Field

By: Richard H. Ackerman, Sarah V. Mackenzie

Immerse yourself in exploring the heart of teacher leadership!

Practicing the art of teacher leadership requires self-reflection, creativity, and discipline. This comprehensive reader, edited by leadership experts, organizes the top voices in the field to examine teacher leadership in insightful and surprising ways. Highlights include classic and contemporary essays to encourage reflection, discussion, and the creative exploration of teacher leadership. In addition, this resource presents:

Stories, essays, and research findings for insight and exploration
Protocols to structure conversations about common issues
Ideas for inspiring and motivating other educators to examine and improve their practices
Questions to encourage dialogue and self-reflection

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412939409
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2007
Page Count: 416
Publication date: January 30, 2007

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Immerse yourself in exploring the heart of teacher leadership!

Practicing the art of teacher leadership requires self-reflection, creativity, and discipline. This comprehensive reader brings together the top voices in the field, encouraging teacher leaders to examine the tensions in their practice. Edited by recognized leadership experts Richard H. Ackerman, author of The Wounded Leader, and Sarah V. Mackenzie, this must-have resource contains classic essays and contemporary gems that explore teacher leadership in insightful and surprising ways.

This well-organized compendium features stories and lessons from teacher leaders that explore current issues, underlying feelings, and fresh perspectives. Within a five-part structure, each section begins with an introduction and closes with questions designed to encourage reflection and discussion. Readers will be able to use:

Stories, essays, and research findings for insight and exploration
Protocols to structure conversations about common issues
Ideas for inspiring and motivating other educators to examine and improve their practices

Revealing the inner world of teacher leaders will prompt readers to think more deeply about their own leadership.

Key features

Includes reflective questions and discussion starters
Protocols to help translate ideas into meaningful action
Offers a blend of personal stories, essays, and research findings

Author(s)

Richard H. Ackerman

Sarah V. Mackenzie

Sarah V. Mackenzie is associate professor of educational leadership at the University of Maine. She has dealt with ethical issues in education for many years, first in her own hands-on experiences as a teacher and teacher leader and now in her role as a professor of educational leadership. Her most recent book, Uncovering Teacher Leadership: Essays and Voices From the Field (Corwin, 2007), is a compilation of writing focused on the inner lives of teacher leaders. She and Richard Ackerman published an article in the May 2006 issue of Educational Leadership titled “Uncovering Teacher Leadership.”

In all of her work—as a teacher and a teacher of teachers and leaders—she has recognized the critical relationship between what teachers believe about their work and how successfully they perform that work.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I: Looking at Teacher Leadership

1. Surprising Outcomes or Why Do They Read Macbeth?

2. The Teacher Leader

3. What Research Says About Teacher Leadership

4. Teachers as Leaders: Emergence of a New Paradigm

5. Honoring the Uniqueness of Teacher Leaders

6. I'm Not Like You

Questions for Reflection and Conversation

Part II: Teacher Leaders Everywhere

7. Teacher Professionalism: Diamonds on the Souls of Her Shoes

8. Leadership to the Fore

9. Teaching as Leading

10. What Teachers Bring to Leadership: The Distinctive Assets of Teachers Who Lead

11. Leading From the Parking Lot

Questions for Reflection and Conversation

Part III: The Heart of Teacher Leaders

12. The Courage to Lead

13. On the Balcony

14. Teacher Leadership: Noble Aspiration or Myth?

15. The Golden Rule of Leadership

16. A Year in the Life of a Teacher Leader: Enacting Core Beliefs

17. Works Well With Others: The Nurturing of a Teacher Leader

18. The Code of Silence

19. Confessions of a Teacher Leader

20. Reaching Out to Parents

21. A Roaring Silence

22. Education's Glass Ceiling

23. Learning in the Risk Zone

24. Hard Lessons About Leadership

25. I, Leader

Questions for Reflection and Conversation

Part IV: Keeping the Teacher in the Leader

26. Looking Within: A Principal's Thoughts About Teacher Leadership

27. Taking on Teacher Leadership: A Foray Into Netherland

28. To Lead or Not to Lead? A Quandary for Newly Tenured Teachers

29. The Continuum of Leadership Development: Teacher Leaders Move to Administration

30. Working Together Through Learning-Oriented Leadership: Promising Practices for Supporting Teacher Leadership and Growth

31. Encouraging Districtwide Teacher Leadership

Questions for Reflection and Conversation

Part V: Nuturing Teacher Leaders

32. It Isn't Just a Dream

33. The Heart of Teaching: Making the Connection Between Teaching, Leadership, and Inner Life

34. Learning and Growing From Convening: A Context for Reflecting on Teacher Practice

35. America's Teaching Profession and the Teacher Leaders Network

36. Teacher Leaders Redefining the Status Quo Through Critical Friends Groups

37. The Paradox of Teacher Leadership

38. The Times They Are A-changing

Questions for Reflection and Conversation

Part VI: Conclusion

39. (How) Can a New Vision of Teacher Leadership Be Fulfilled?

40. Leading From the Back

Index

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Reviews

"No one could read this book and not be struck by the power and importance of teacher leadership for our schools. The voices from the field don't merely spell out the power and importance of teacher leadership—they shout it out! One can't help but be touched by the care, commitment, concern, vulnerability, and honesty expressed by these writers."

Leonard O. Pellicer, Dean
College of Education and Organizational Leadership, University of La Verne

"Captures the essence and essentials of teacher leadership. Defines teacher leaders and gives them a voice through personal reflections. Readers are given strategies on keeping and nurturing teacher leaders to maximize their impact on a campus. The framework for sustaining teacher leaders makes this book a must-read."

Tim Persall, Principal
Canyon Independent School District, Amarillo, TX

"The strength of any community of learners must be realized from within—from the internal leaders who, classroom by classroom, contribute to the overall well-being of the entire school. Uncovering Teacher Leadership brings together commanding, yet thoughtful voices on a topic central to effective educational practice—the development of teacher leaders. An important read for anyone in the field of education."

Pru Cuper, Professor of Education
Keene State College

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