Title Collaborative Teacher Leadership : How Teachers Can Foster Equitable Schools

Published Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2006

Click on the following:
ProQuest Ebook Central

Copies

Description 1 online resource (216 pages) Contents Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1 -- Reframing School Culture -- What I am becoming -- What Does This Look Like? Changing the Nature of Work -- Professional Growth -- Why Do it? It is about Quality of Life and Learning! -- Fostering Resiliency: A Lens for Reframing Culture -- Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace -- Essential Questions -- Resources -- Tools -- Organizations -- Resiliency -- Endnotes -- Chapter 2 -- Learning to Lead -- Why the Need to Distribute Leadership? What is Distributed Leadership?The Skills, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Skillful Teacher Leaders -- New Roles, New Relationships -- Teachers Educating Each Other -- Teachers as Advocates -- Leading and Managing Change -- Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace -- Essential Questions -- Resources -- Tools -- Organizations -- Survey -- How Did We Do? � A Teacher Survey -- Endnotes -- Chapter 3 -- Influencing Student Learning -- Closing the Achievement Gap and Habits of Mind -- Valuing the Staff -- Focusing Resources -- Community and School Setting Community and School DemographicsMaterial, Economic, and Human Resources at the Site -- Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace -- Essential Questions -- Resources -- Community Connections -- Community Mapping -- Gap Analysis -- Endnotes -- Chapter 4 -- The Role of Inquiry -- Definition of Collaborative Action Research -- Collaborative Action Research, When Well Conducted, brings out the Best in Its Members -- Action Research Has an Invaluable Application to the Classroom -- Methodology -- Results -- Conclusions and Recommendations The Potential Power of Collaborative Action Research as a Methodology to Enact Schoolwide Sustained ChangeApplying the Concepts in Your Workplace -- Essential Questions -- Resources -- The Five Whys -- Chapter 5 -- Building Equity in Diverse Classrooms -- Distributing Teachers� Work -- Personalizing Teaching and Learning -- Students� Academic Performance at the Center of Staff Conversations -- Having the Equity Conversation -- The Work -- Results -- What Equity-Focused Schools Look Like -- Academic Success -- High Expectations -- Culture of Evidence PersonalizationNetworking -- Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace -- Essential Questions -- Resources -- Endnote -- Chapter 6 -- Advocating for Students and Teachers -- Advocacy: Adding Voice to a Cry -- Advocacy for Students -- Special Needs Students -- The Whole Child -- Supporting Parents as Advocates for Student Learning -- Advocacy for beginning Teachers -- Advocacy for Teachers -- Quality Professional Development -- Equitable Working Conditions -- Political Advocacy -- Working to Impact Policy -- The Attempted Solution -- Team Growth Summary The authors present teachers' own observations and reflections on leadership to demonstrate how teacher leaders can help close the achievement gap Notes ""Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace"" Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-188) and index Notes Print version record Subject Teacher participation in administration. Teacher effectiveness. Educational leadership. School management and organization. Educational leadership School management and organization Teacher effectiveness Teacher participation in administration Mitarbeit Schulleitung Lehrer Form Electronic book Author Arriaza, Gilberto ISBN 9781452212203 1452212201

  Permalink