teacher leadership learning teams our future stephanie hirsh national staff development council
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TEACHER LEADERSHIPLEARNING TEAMS
OUR FUTURE
Stephanie HirshNational Staff Development Council
It is no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might dream. The failure is to fall short of dreaming all that we might realize.
-Dee HockFounder, VISA
Being a teacher leader is a powerful professional growth experience.
Behind every great school door is not only
a great principal, but also a great team of teacher leaders.
•American Federation of Teachers
•National Education Association
•National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
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NSDC Goal
All educators in all schools will experience high-quality professional learning as part of their daily work.
The NSDC Vision
Results-driven
Standards-
based
Job-embedded
What are students expected to know and be able to do?
What must educators know and be able to do to ensure student success?
What professional development must beoffered to enable educators to develop the knowledge and skills needed to produce the results they want for students?
No more “adult pull-out
programs”.
• Examine data
• Clarify student needs
• Establish adult learning priorities
• Design powerful lessons and assessments
• Reflect on the results
Learning Teams . . .
At school, everyone’s job is to learn.
The single largest determinant ofa student’s success is the quality of teaching.
-Kati Haycock-Kati Haycock
It is what students need rather than what adults want that should shape educators' learning.
Mizell, Hayes. (2003) Facilitator: 10 refreshments: 8 evaluation: 0, Journal of Staff Development, (24:4). p 10.
Our deepest fear is not that
we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
- Nelson
Mandela
Defense contractors speak as if the fate of the nation depended on their products, and it does.
Why don’t education advocates convey that same sense of importance and urgency when they know to a certainty that their “products” will absolutely determine the fate of our nation?
Begala, P. (2002). Paul Begala sounds off on leadership. Connections, 9(1), 18.
Leading by example is perhaps the purest form of leadership and the one over which each of us has the most control.
Barth, Roland. (2001, February). Teacher Leader. Phi Delta Kappan, 82(6), 447.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that
ever has. - Margaret Mead
Let us put our minds together and see
what life we can make for our
children.
Sitting Bull, 1877