Reframing Teacher Leadership to Improve Your School

by Douglas B. Reeves

Do you want your school or district to truly become a learning organization? How do you foster lasting and meaningful change? How do you avoid rejection of your new approach to teaching and learning? If you've been involved in a school change effort, you most likely have struggled with these questions. To ease this struggle, Douglas B. Reeves has proposed a new framework to promote effective change efforts through teacher leadership. In this book, you will explore not only cutting-edge research findings, but also practical applications that can help improve student achievement and educational equity. You can learn how to achieve lasting results as an educator and school leader. You can learn from other teacher researchers how to infuse your classroom, school, or district with enthusiasm, meaningful teaching, improved results, and greater satisfaction. Even as you strive for innovation, you naturally want to avoid having the next new thing become the latest old thing. To achieve lasting change, educators must embrace evidence-based decision making rather than the fact-free debate. Reeves has found that educators more readily accept decisions they disagree with if they believe the decision-making process was fair--not based on opinion or hierarchy. Reeves aims for you to help him build a network of teacher leaders based on this new evidence-based framework that will foster resilient learning organizations. Come along--explore, act, and share. This product listing is for the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version of the book.

Genres: Education, Leadership

204 pages, Paperback

First published May 30, 2008

Reviews

[Teri · Rating 3 out of 5]

would be a good book for identifying teacher leaders in campus. nit the ones who want to be noticed, but the ones who teachers go to for information. the ones who influence the campus. still though, it wasn't the best book I've ever read but i do like that it discusses the importance of identifying ALL the teacher leaders and not just the ones who want to be noticed.

[Dave Moyer · Rating 4 out of 5]

The most helpful part of the book are the extended appendices, which are very helpful tools for implementaiton.