Beyond Incentives also details key findings about the impact of this program, including that
teachers who work with
teacher leaders report that doing so helped them to improve their own practice; that those who did so frequently were more likely to report that they felt valued in their schools and saw
opportunities to advance in their profession; and that
teacher leadership can
foster professional collaboration, which is fundamental to overall school improvement but often hard to achieve.
Second, U.S. education schools have typically done a poor job of
fostering leadership in new recruits and providing prospective administrators with the skills they need to create more
opportunities for
teachers to lead.