Teacher Leadership Resource Center

The Boston Teacher Leadership Resource Center, a partnership of the Boston Plan for Excellence, Boston Public Schools, and Boston Teacher Residency, is working to accelerate student learning in Boston by strengthening teachers’ capacities to be effective professional resources for each other, school improvement and district reform. The partnership builds upon BPE’s experience in supporting systemic improvement, the district's strong corps of professional educators, and Boston Teacher Residency's commitment to attracting, preparing, and retaining excellent teachers for the Boston Public Schools.

HOW IT WORKS
 

The center’s activities focus on the supports teachers need to make a bigger difference in school and district improvement.

• Boston Teacher Leadership Certificate: a series of graduate-level "collaborative courses" designed by teachers for teachers who want to strengthen the skills they need to be effective in their teacher leadership roles.
   
• Teacher Leadership Connections: a list of links to additional programs and projects that aim to strengthen teachers' abilities to be effective professional resources for one another in their schools, the district and beyond.

• Teacher Leadership Resource Library: a web-based collection of tools that can be available to teacher leaders and other school and district leaders for strengthening hte skills and creating the context for teacher leadership.
  • Our Collaborative Course Materials include a rich collection of readings and instructional tasks designed by teachers for our Certificate's collaborative courses.  These materials can be accessible on demand to leaders and leadership teams to build PD into their meetings and to address specific challenges in leadership practice as they arise.
  • Our Teacher Leadership Support Tools include a set of tools, templates and strategies that school and district leaders can use (and help us build) to ensure their teacher leaders have the contextual conditions to succeed.

WHY IT MATTERS
 

Nothing is more important to student learning than the quality of teaching, and accomplished teachers are an underutilized resource for improving instruction. As lead teachers, mentors, team facilitators, and members of instructional leadership teams, teacher leaders can strengthen instructional practice, infuse school decision-making with the reality of the classroom perspective, and ensure all students have access to quality teaching.