1. Phyllis Younkins, Leadership Facilitator
Teachers as Leaders
`Why Teacher Leadership???
Administrators are the only leaders!
Phyllis Younkins - WE are going to find out that is far from the truth.
Summer Symposium 2008
Phyllis Younkins, Leadership Facilitator

2. POWER PASSION PURPOSE Teacher Leaders have POWER, PASSION and PURPOSE.
You have the 3 P’s – Power, Passion and Purpose.

3. Changing Views! Students Teachers Teacher Leadership

4. Changing Views of Teacher Leadership
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When I first decided to become a teacher, I thought teacher leadership meant …
A year or so after becoming a teacher, teacher leadership meant …
Now, teacher leadership means …
This is an evolving concept.
Silently reflect on these sentence starters. Jot down notes as desired. After __minutes be prepared to share your responses in groups.

5. Our Changing Views of Teacher Leadership
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What has contributed to the evolution of your views about leadership?
What difference do you see between the way in which leadership was viewed in the past and way it is viewed now?
How and why are our views of leadership still continuing to change?
The purpose of this activity is to give you time to reflect on how your views of leadership have changed over time.
Processing questions – with group.

6. Agenda Changing Views of Teacher Leadership Qualities
Teacher Leadership Stories
Teacher Leadership Skills and Dispositions
School Culture
Examples of Teachers Leadership Practices

7. When You Leave Here Today
Define teacher leader
Identify teacher leadership skills and dispositions
Identify practices to use as a teacher leader
Reflect on how this information and these strategies are useful to you
Be motivated to read the book
And be actively involved…

8. EM2 Leadership Triads and Partners
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Envision Triad
Model Partner
Empower Partner
Motivate Triad
One way to be actively involved is to reflect and share and work in groups. So… I am going to ask you to fill in your EM2 Leadership Page with partners and triads. EM2 are 4 categories of leadership traits – To explain very briefly Envision – Develop a personal vision and align it with the organizations vision
Empower – Providing other the opportunity to change. Grow and improve
Model – Inspire trust, develop relationships
Motivate – recognize the contributions of others.
So you are going to get up and find two other people to be in your Envision Triad, one other person to be your model partner , one other person to be your Empower partner and two other people to be in your Motivate triad.
Please write down their names.

9. Teacher Leadership Stories
Danielson first describes some teacher leaders and ways that made them teacher leaders. I’ll share a couple.

10. A New Way to Do Field Trips Margaret
4th Grade Teacher
Field trip – Local Historical Museum
Working with others, changed to make it more meaningful and integrated
Developed “BIG Lesson” Concept
More in-depth work
Concept extended to other field trips
Across the state

11. What Achievement Gap? Tom, HS math teacher
18% black and Hispanic population, only 5% in advanced math
Fewer than a third were female
Principal encouragement and 20 minutes of a faculty meeting- Tom presented the situation
Tom and 5 others did a detail examination of the situation

12. What Achievement Gap? Tom, HS math teacher
Interviews, research , etc.
Interesting findings
Study group began by targeting their own classes
Changing their own practices
Success -
More girls enrolled
Increased achievement rates among minority students.

13. Danielson’s Defines Teacher Leadership
Charlotte Danielson defines it as:
“Skills demonstrated by teachers who continue to teach students but also have an influence that extends beyond their own classrooms to others within their school and elsewhere.”

14. Danielson’s Teacher Leadership Skills and Dispositions
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Danielson’s Teacher Leadership Skills and Dispositions
Self Inventory
Mark each skill and disposition somewhere on the continuum from 1 – 10
Area of Needed Growth Definite Strength

15. Danielson’s Teacher Leadership Skills and Dispositions
“Biggest Need”
Determine a skill or disposition that is an area of needed growth for you.

16. Reflect on a way to improve in this area.
Area of Needed Growth
Skim to find that skill or disposition - Pages 28 – 40
Read the description of that particular skill or disposition
Reflect on a way to improve in this area.

17. Pair – Share Meet with your “Model Partner”
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Meet with your “Model Partner”
Share how you are going to improve.

18. Framework
Teacher leadership is exhibited in any number of settings in the school: within one’s own school in the district, the state, or even the entire nation. None of these settings is to be preferred over any other; they are different locations of work. It is sometimes more of a challenge to convince one’s close colleagues to attempt a new approach than it is to promote something on a state or even national level: a department or team is more like family and may be more critical of one’s ideas.

19. School Culture
“The school’s culture affects how individuals treat one another, the expectations people have for their own and others’ behavior, and the belief structure underlying school practices.”

20. School Culture for Teacher Leadership Visual Activity
What characterizes a positive school culture in which teacher leaders can emerge and work effectively?
Envision Triad
Brainstorm

21. School Culture for Teacher Leadership Visual Activity
A positive school culture in which teacher leaders can emerge and work effectively is …
Create a visual that represents a
Positive School Culture for Teacher Leadership

22. School Culture for Teacher Leadership
School Culture for Teacher Leadership ...as described by Charlotte Danielson
A positive school culture in which teacher leaders can emerge and work effectively is demonstrated by –
A culture in which teachers, support staff, students, parents, and administrators are treated with respect
A culture of hard work must pertain to everyone.

23. School Culture for Teacher Leadership
School Culture for Teacher Leadership ...as described by Charlotte Danielson
A positive school culture in which teacher leaders can emerge and work effectively is demonstrated by –
A culture of professional inquiry, ongoing learning
Openness to change – Examination of doing things in better ways
Many of your visuals show just this type of school culture.

24. Teacher Leadership That Strengthens Professional Practice
The focus of the Teacher Survey,
pages 151 – 153, is school culture.
The teacher survey offered here invites teachers to select, from several options, the statement that best describes the situation in their school with respect to several aspects of culture. By tabulating the results, educators can get a good sense of the tone of the school; the results might well point to areas that could be improved.

25. School Culture for Teacher Leadership Reflection
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How does your school setting reflect positive school culture?
What can be done to improve
the culture?
“School culture, overall, sets the tone for teacher leadership…it influences how they think about what they do and the broader context within which they regard their work.”
Share with your EMPOWER Partner.

26. Framework Teacher Leadership can be demonstrated in 3 areas -----
School wide Policies and Programs
Teaching and Learning
Communications and Community Relations

27. Framework : How Teacher Leadership Is Demonstrated In Three Areas
Schoolwide Policies and Programs
Teaching and Learning
Communications and Community Relations

28. Examples of Teacher Leadership Practices Card Sort
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Motivate Triad
Each take some slips from envelope
Sort according to -
School Policies and Programs
Teaching and Learning
Communications and Community Relations
Packet Page 6 – Categories page

29. Examples of Teacher Leadership Practices Reflection
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What leadership practices could you add to those in the card sort?
What is a practice that you would like to do to improve your teacher leadership?

30. Teachers as Leaders Interview
Video
Teachers as Leaders Interview
How are the thoughts and feelings of this teacher the same or different from your thoughts and feelings?

31. When You Leave Here Today
Define teacher leader
Identify teacher leadership skills and dispositions
Identify practices to use as a teacher leader
Reflect on how this information and these strategies are useful to you
Be motivated to read more of the book

32. Exit Slip - Reflections
Something I learned from the session
Something that caused a shift in my thinking
First steps I will take as a result of this session
Something I still wonder about

33. Story
It is essential that leaders lead with their hearts as well as their heads.
Build relationships and recognize others.
One way to do this is through stories
Stories are powerful motivators.
Bonehead

34. Give your neighbor “Five.”
Celebrate
Give your neighbor “Five.”
Up High
Down Low
On the Side