Stakeholder feedback identified several components to consider when researching this option, including: finding opportunities
in rural and / or low income school districts, finding opportunities
in school districts experiencing difficulty
in attracting and retaining staff for identified
positions, opportunities to practice co-teaching, and possible participation
in or exposure to
professional learning communities (
in - district, or regional).»
«Specifically, we documented how the Mills Teacher Scholars Teacher Leadership Network meetings (a) offered safe thinking spaces that
positioned teachers as intellectual
professionals who could socially construct knowledge and
learn together, (b) allowed teachers to surface and name the complexities and uncertainties inherent to teaching that would undoubtedly arise as they sought to facilitate
learning communities at their school sites, and (c) provided guidance for teachers through a parallel process, that is, modeling for them and supporting them
in experiencing firsthand what they would be responsible for enacting and scaffolding with their teaching colleagues.»