Developing Teachers

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Creating supportive contexts for teacher leadership with

Teacher Leadership Support Tools

 

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.  For example:

  • Application and Selection Process Tools for Principal-Appointed Teacher Leadership Roles
    • A list of the teacher leadership roles that principals are responsible for appointing or recommending, with the job description, list of requisite skills, and other relevant information
    • An application template that can be use at the school level to support principals to better match teachers to roles
    • Model job descriptions for school-based roles, e.g. grade-level team leader
    • A guide with selection process recommendations, criteria and a timeline
  • List of strategies and practices for supporting teacher leaders
    • for creating time for teacher leadership tasks
    • for ensuring all faculty members understand what the role is (and is not)
    • for ensuring teacher leadership work is coordinated with your shared leadership model

 

Strengthening the skills for teacher leadership with

collaborative Course Materials

 

The rich collection of professional learning resources designed by teachers for our Certificate’s collaborative courses can also 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.

 

The collection contains instructional materials that include templates, examples, and references on topics such as:

Using Data
  • Collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data to monitor student learning
  • Using Excel to manage, analyze and communicate with data
  • Maximizing use of local tools, such as the BPS Data Warehouse
  • Using data to inform classroom-, team-, and school-level decision-making

Supporting Instruction
  • Collecting data on instruction, such as video or Low-Inference Classroom Transcripts
  • Facilitating evidence-based discussions about instructional practice using protocols
  • Providing growth-oriented feedback on instruction
  • Leading effective professional development experiences

Shared Leadership
  • Building trust and shared vision
  • Planning and leading effective meetings with shared responsibility
  • Facilitating effective communication and consensus-building
  • Promoting effective alignment of team’s work to school and district priorities

Professional Expertise
  • Leading reflective dialogue and fostering team learning
  • Improving conditions that enable teachers to share their expertise
  • Accessing and using educational research to address problems of practice
  • Making research-based recommendations regarding team- and school-level policies

 

For more information, please contact Jill Harrison Berg, TLRC Director at jberg(at)bpe.org or 617-227-8055 x368.

Our Core Partner
The Boston Teacher Residency is a joint initiative of the Boston Public Schools and the Boston Plan for Excellence (BPE) and is housed at BPE.

The Boston Plan for Excellence is working to make sure every child in Boston receives an excellent education. As a local education fund and nonprofit, we seek and support innovative solutions to the toughest problems faced by Boston’s students, their teachers, and the school system as a whole.

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