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Teacher Leadership
Joseph MurphyFrank W. Mayborn Chair &
Associate Dean for Special ProjectsVanderbilt University's Peabody College
210B Payne Hall, Box 414230 Appleton Place
Nashville, TN 37023-5721615-322-8038
What are the forces supporting teacher leadership?
What is the “theory in action” (engine)?What are the pathways to bring teacher
leadership to life?What are the barriers to present teacher
leadership from taking root?What are the key ingredients to make it work?What is the view of leadership for the principal in
this reform idea?How do you prepare teachers to assume the
role of teacher leader?
Supporting Forces
1. Changing Views of Schooling for Highly
Productive Schools Critique of Existing Forms New Understandings of Productive School
2. Changing Views of Leadership in New
School Organizations Changing Role of Formal Leaders
Supporting Forces
2. Changing Views of Leadership in New
School Organizations (Cont.) Distributed Views of Leadership
3. School Improvement Designs that
Privilege Professionalism
Pathways to Teacher LeadershipRole-Based Strategies Community-Based Strategies
Teacher Career Broadening Administrative
Domains Strategies Structures and Roles
Shared Communities
Leadership of Practice
Architecture structural/hierarchical/institutional
View of individually based
Leadership
Focus management/administrative
Foundation administrative prerogative
Influence legitimacy/control
Base
Scope targeted work/limited
Nature of activities performed by those in formal roles
Work
organic/communal/cultural
organizational property/
professional phenomenon
instruction and learning
community product
expertise/social capital
distributed/generalized
work as ingrained in teacher
role of all
Pathways to Teacher Leadership
Role-Based Strategies Community-Based Strategies
Teacher Career Broadening Administrative
Domains Strategies Structures and Roles
Shared Communities
Leadership of Practice
Accountability to administrators (bureaucratic)
Nature formal/competitive
Dynamic planned
Expression from the point, organizational
Duration limited
Relationships thin/separation from peers
Impact minimal
to colleagues (professional)
informal/ingrained/cooperative
emergent
from a web of relationships
on-going
deep/collaborative
unknown
Organizational & Cultural Barriers
Organizational Structure introduction dynamics of hierarchy
Culture introduction norms about teaching & learning norms about the nature of work
Organizational & Cultural Barriers
Culture (cont.) norm of autonomy norms of privacy & non-interference norm of egalitarianism norm of civility norm of conservatism & aversion to risk taking
Organizational & Cultural Barriers
Culture (cont.) norm of legitimacy norm of the divide between teaching &
administration norm of managerial prerogative norm of followership norm of compliance
Supporting Elements
Values and Expectations
Structures
Professional Development
Resources
Incentives and Recognition
Role Clarity
Promoting Teacher Leadership from the Principal’s Office
Developing Relationships in Support of Teacher Leadership
Recasting Leadership
Building Strong Relationships with Teachers
Rethinking Conceptions of Power
Fashioning Supportive Organizational Structures
Working to Promote Teacher Leadership
Promoting Professional Development
Teacher Leadership Curriculum
A. Developing an understanding of the whole school
1. Understanding how schools work2. Understanding professional responsibilities of leaders3. Developing a deeper understanding of leadership
B. Working productively with others4. Developing more effective interpersonal skills5. Learning to coach/mentor others6. Facilitating productive collaboration
Teacher Leadership Curriculum
C. Deepening the instructional capacity of colleagues 7. Designing and implementing high-quality professional
development8. Recognizing, assessing, and supporting quality instructional
practices with colleagues9. Program evaluation on teacher leaders
D. Leading school improvement10. Developing and sustaining professional learning communities11. Leading change12. Teacher leader research13. Teacher leadership research14. Promoting equitable schools for youngsters and families