Sentences with phrase «formal leadership role in their school»

51 The percentage of teachers who have a formal leadership role in their school (such as department chair or teacher mentor).

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We anticipate that in the 2015 — 16 school year, all 336 school districts in Iowa will have a local TLC plan that elevates at least 25 percent of the teaching staff in each school to formal leadership roles with additional responsibilities and compensation.

Schools across the United States are adjusting their professional cultures and workplace practices in response, creating formal opportunities for teachers to learn from one another and work together through shared planning periods, teacher leadership roles, and professional learning communities.

I consider it a mistake to attribute school leadership activities as only residing in formal roles because this denies the greater bulk of the profession opportunities to develop leadership capacities which may lead to other leadership activities in the future, either formal or informal.

I am very conscious that understandings of leadership work undertaken by teachers typically reinforce those with formal positional roles at the expense of other forms of leadership which I believe are equally important for the improvement of student learning and achievement in schools.

In this Q&A, Lovett joins Teacher to discuss what teacher leadership is, and why she believes it is a mistake to attribute school leadership activities only to those residing in formal roleIn this Q&A, Lovett joins Teacher to discuss what teacher leadership is, and why she believes it is a mistake to attribute school leadership activities only to those residing in formal rolein formal roles.

The principal three years earlier had explicitly encouraged teachers to assume leadership roles in the school, in accordance with district policies that supported the designation and implementation of formal teacher - leader positions.

While the formal or informal leadership roles of teachers may vary in different schools and districts, teacher leadership is broadly defined in the 2011 Teacher Leader Model Standards as «the process by which teachers, individually or collectively, influence their colleagues, principals, and other members of the school community to improve teaching and learning practices with the aim of increased student learning and achievement.»

High - quality school leadership can be demonstrated by individuals at all levels of a school, including those in formal leadership positions, such as assistant principals or curriculum leaders, and those without a formally defined role.

At both district and school levels, however, we assume leadership is also distributed among others in formal as well as informal leadership roles.

EDL 5403 «The Principalship: Educational Unit and Site Administration,» which prepares students to assume formal and informal leadership roles in schools; and