1. Teacher Leadership & Collaboration
Roles and Selection

2. What is Teacher Leadership & Collaboration?
Lead without leaving the classroom
Magnifying a great teacher’s impact
Real-time actionable feedback and coaching
Building great teams for every school
Notes: Teacher Leadership & Collaboration is a leadership model that has been successfully implemented in 71 schools across DPS over the past three years and is continuing to expand this year.
This model allows highly effective teachers to share the expertise they have developed with fellow teachers, extending a great teacher’s impact to multiple classrooms and helping more students grow.
At a Teacher Leadership & Collaboration school, teachers are organized into teams guided by a team lead. Team leads provide the teachers on their teams with one-on-one coaching, evaluation, and real-time feedback that helps improve teaching and learning every single day. Team leads also facilitate collaborative team time so that teachers can share ideas and learn from each other.
Team leads spend about half their time teaching and half their time working with their team of teachers.
The “hybrid” team lead role allows teachers to advance their careers by developing leadership skills while staying true to their first love: teaching their own classroom of kids.
The goal is for all DPS teachers to be organized into a team supported by a team lead by the school year.

6. What activities do teacher leaders support?
Teacher leaders support activities like:
Facilitation of teacher planning time
Bringing teachers together to review student work
Observation, feedback, coaching for individuals
Supporting first-year teachers to help them thrive
Bringing together “specials” teachers to help music teachers work with other music teachers, art teachers to work with art teachers, etc.

7. A day in the life of a teacher leader

8. Why are we adopting this model?
DPS OBJECTIVE
DESCRIPTION
Supports teacher growth
Provides more frequent and actionable feedback and coaching for teachers
Strengthens teams in schools
Increase opportunities for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing through teacher teams led by teachers
Attracts and retains strong teachers
Innovative leadership roles can bring new life to a teacher’s practice and keep great teachers in the classroom and profession
Increases distributive leadership
Builds stronger leadership teams while growing and developing potential Aps and principals

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11. By the numbers

12. TLC selection Process
The selection process for teacher leaders for will be streamlined and aligned across the district
DPS schools anticipate needing new Senior Team Leads to support teachers across the district in , plus an additional ~300 other teacher leader roles will compliment teacher support. <<INSERT SCHOOL BASED INFORMATION>>
Typically, 2 out of 3 team leads are retained in role each year
There is a district-wide eligibility criteria and selection processes
For first bullet:
Resources are embedded in the DPS Staffing and Renewal Handbook for principals
Application and selection is embedded into GHR
HR teams are collaborating to embed support for recruitment and selection into standard hiring and selection processes
For the third bullet:
Teacher leaders transferring out of role tend to stay in district serving in other school leader or district leadership roles
For the fourth bullet:
Principals invite candidates to interview and utilize their Personnel Committees for final decisions on all teacher leader selections

13. Tlc roles available at <<Insert SCHOOL>> for 2016-17
Team Supported
Release time (if applicable)
Role Details
(example)
Senior Team Lead
ECE-K-1st (6 teachers) .5
Stipend information, teaching position, timeline, additional selection criteria

14. Recruitment and selection Timeline
Dec-Jan
Opportunities shared within school buildings, interest discussed during mid-years
January 22
Selection begins for in-building candidates
February 24
Selection begins for external candidates
May 1
Recommended deadline for final selections
June 1
Final deadline for selecting teacher leaders

15. Questions?
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