1. Teacher Leadership Joseph Murphy Frank W. Mayborn Chair &
Associate Dean for Special Projects
Vanderbilt University's Peabody College
210B Payne Hall, Box 414
230 Appleton Place
Nashville, TN

2. What are the forces supporting teacher leadership?
What is the “theory in action” (engine)?
What are the pathways to bring teacher leadership to life?
What are the barriers to present teacher leadership from taking root?
What are the key ingredients to make it work?
What is the view of leadership for the principal in this reform idea?
How do you prepare teachers to assume the role of teacher leader?

3. Supporting Forces Changing Views of Schooling for Highly
Productive Schools
Critique of Existing Forms
New Understandings of Productive School
Changing Views of Leadership in New
School Organizations
Changing Role of Formal Leaders

4. Supporting Forces Changing Views of Leadership in New
School Organizations (Cont.)
Distributed Views of Leadership
School Improvement Designs that
Privilege Professionalism

6. Pathways to Teacher Leadership
Role-Based Strategies
Community-Based Strategies
Teacher Career Broadening Administrative
Domains Strategies Structures and Roles
Shared Communities
Leadership of Practice
Architecture structural/hierarchical/institutional
View of individually based
Leadership
Focus management/administrative
Foundation administrative prerogative
Influence legitimacy/control
Base
Scope targeted work/limited
Nature of activities performed by those in formal roles
Work
organic/communal/cultural
organizational property/
professional phenomenon
instruction and learning
community product
expertise/social capital
distributed/generalized
work as ingrained in teacher
role of all

7. Pathways to Teacher Leadership
Role-Based Strategies
Community-Based Strategies
Teacher Career Broadening Administrative
Domains Strategies Structures and Roles
Shared Communities
Leadership of Practice
Accountability to administrators (bureaucratic)
Nature formal/competitive
Dynamic planned
Expression from the point, organizational
Duration limited
Relationships thin/separation from peers
Impact minimal
to colleagues (professional)
informal/ingrained/cooperative
emergent
from a web of relationships
on-going
deep/collaborative
unknown

8. Organizational & Cultural Barriers
Organizational Structure
introduction
dynamics of hierarchy
Culture
norms about teaching & learning
norms about the nature of work

9. Organizational & Cultural Barriers
Culture (cont.)
norm of autonomy
norms of privacy & non-interference
norm of egalitarianism
norm of civility
norm of conservatism & aversion to risk taking

10. Organizational & Cultural Barriers
Culture (cont.)
norm of legitimacy
norm of the divide between teaching & administration
norm of managerial prerogative
norm of followership
norm of compliance

11. Supporting Elements Values and Expectations Structures
Professional Development
Resources
Incentives and Recognition
Role Clarity

12. Promoting Teacher Leadership from the Principal’s Office
Developing Relationships in Support of Teacher Leadership
Recasting Leadership
Building Strong Relationships with Teachers
Rethinking Conceptions of Power
Fashioning Supportive Organizational Structures
Working to Promote Teacher Leadership
Promoting Professional Development

13. Teacher Leadership Curriculum
A. Developing an understanding of the whole school
1. Understanding how schools work
2. Understanding professional responsibilities of leaders
3. Developing a deeper understanding of leadership
B. Working productively with others
4. Developing more effective interpersonal skills
5. Learning to coach/mentor others
6. Facilitating productive collaboration

14. Teacher Leadership Curriculum
C. Deepening the instructional capacity of colleagues
7. Designing and implementing high-quality professional development
8. Recognizing, assessing, and supporting quality instructional practices with colleagues
9. Program evaluation on teacher leaders
D. Leading school improvement
10. Developing and sustaining professional learning communities
11. Leading change
12. Teacher leader research
13. Teacher leadership research
14. Promoting equitable schools for youngsters and families