Sustaining Teacher Leadership: Beyond the Boundaries of an Enabling School Culture

by Linda Dawson Gonzales

Overview

Sustaining Teacher Leadership describes a model for linking leadership and learning and identifies six components necessary for enabling a culture for teacher leadership: learning, valuing, nurturing, supporting, sharing, and coaching. The model is based on an historical review of artifacts from earlier qualitative studies, which report on eight years of a middle school's restructuring and restructuring experiences. The book also describes the development of a learning culture and five teachers' identification with a democratic teacher-leadership style. Five teacher-leader participants with full time teaching responsibilities were selected from teachers who had participated for four or more years in the enabling school culture and transferred together to a newly opening school.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761823957
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	03/15/2004
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	6.46(w) x 8.48(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

Linda Dawson Gonzales is Project Director for Broward County Documentation, Lucent Learning Communities Project, Florida. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy from University of Florida, Gainesville.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Chapter One: Teacher Leadership in the 21st Century: An Introduction: Teachers' Work: Teacher Isolation: A Core Problem in Schools; Teachers as Change Agents; Professionalization of Teaching: Some Teachers Are Leaders; A Professional Culture: All Chapter 4 Chapter Two: Context and Methods: Historical Context of the Study; Research Questions; Methodology: Historical Artifacts; Participants and Setting; Data Collection; Researcher Bias; Trustworthiness; Delimitations and Limitations of the Study Chapter 5 Chapter Three: Enabling Culture for Teacher Leadership: Reculturing and Restructuring; Learning and Leading Cycle; Reculturing: 1988-1992: Followers to Leaders; Knowledge Keepers to Collaborative Learners; Junior High to Middle School Philosophy; Chapter 6 Chapter Four: Developing a Teacher Leader Identity: Teaching Stories from the First Generation: 1988-1992; Teaching Stories from the Second Generation: 1992-1996; Learning and Leading Cycle Chapter 7 Chapter Five: Teacher Leaders Influence an Inchoate School Culture: Echo Valley Middle School: The First Three Years; Learning and Leading Cycle; Leadership capacity School Survey; School Climate Survey; Teacher Leaders in the Classroom; Curriculum Chapter 8 Chapter Six: Implications for Further Study: Connections to Leadership Theory; Sustainability and Nested Systems; Recommendations for Further Study Chapter 9 Appendix A: Artifacts List Chapter 10 Appendix B: Interview Protocol; Letter of Consent Chapter 11 References Chapter 12 Index Chapter 13 Author's Biographical Sketch