Teacher Leadership/Distributed Leadership (The FEA Leadership Model)

Improve Organizational Conditions in Schools

Teacher Leadership/Distributed Leadership is a research-based, practice-based, and evaluated program. It was developed based on three years of work with four pilot schools in New Jersey under the auspices of the NJ Department of Education and the Wallace Foundation. The program is aimed at creating organizational conditions in schools that improve learning and the performance of all students. It also promotes continuous long term improvement and sustainability of programs for schools in general.

 

$1,750 per day per trainer

$1,600 per day for coaching

 

Teacher Leadership/Distributed Leadership requires four full days of training and six follow-up coaching days to implement. Training days are separated by three or four week intervals to give time for teachers to practice and develop leadership skills.

 

The following key elements are included in this program:

 

·         The roles of informal and formal leaders in the system;

·         A Distributed Leadership Model to frame the program elements;

·         Coaching in the Leadership Model;

·         The skills, knowledge and dispositions of effective teacher leaders;

·         Teaming;

·         The role of assessment and data;

·         Building capacity for distributed leadership;

·         Sustaining structures in distributed leadership; and

·         Measuring the impact of distributed leadership.

The following results can be expected with the completion of Teacher Leadership/Distributed Leadership:

 

·         Effective, high functioning professional learning community of teacher leaders;

·         Teachers who view themselves as researchers, scholars and problem solvers for improving student learning;

·         Expert skills in four distinct areas: self-skills; strategic skills; systemic skills; and collaborative skills;

·         Action plan for the “work” to be done, the organizing principle of study that drives the Professional Learning Community;

·         School infrastructure to sustain programs; and

·         Data collection procedures for assessment purposes and to frame decision-making.

The design of the program meets the professional standards for teachers and school leaders and the Core Curriculum Content Standards for 21^st Century skills.

 

Emergence, Convergence, and Discovery: A Pathway to Distributed Leadership, Sharon McCarthy and Art Firestone

 

Research-based handouts and materials to support the training

 

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