There are no shortages of problems facing our schools and no individuals more critical to solving them than our teachers. Our frontline teachers face daily challenges of the impact of poverty, a growing population of students with special needs, a system hampered by lack of funding that in many instances forces them to supply their classrooms, increasing demands for accountability based on...

Teacher leadership has a long history in education dating back to the turn of the century. Historically, teacher leadership has not been recognized in its own right, but thought of as an extension of teaching. In Identifying and Growing Internal Leaders: A Framework for Effective Teacher Leadership, the authors focus on the knowledge, skills, dispositions, and practices of...

We are grateful to the teachers who serve as teacher leaders. We thank you for stepping up to serve our children, your colleagues, and your school. We thank you for being attuned to what needs to be done and just doing it, most often without recognition or additional monies. We thank you for being self-motivated to explore, learn, implement, fail, and succeed. And we thank you for inspiring those...

While John Wooden is best known as a basketball coach, he was a teacher and a leader. His record of ten national championships featured four perfect seasons and eighty-eight straight wins. What most people don’t realize is that he coached for twenty-eight years before he won a national championship, and the record that has made him a legend reflects only his last twelve years at UCLA. Wooden...

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Italics identify connection to The Framework for Effective Teacher Leadership: Domain I—Teacher Leader Competencies

Kimberly T. Strike, PhD, is professor of education and coordinator of doctoral studies at Southern Wesleyan University, Central, South Carolina. She earned her doctorate at Marquette University in the areas of curriculum, instruction, administration, and supervision with an emphasis on educational technology. She has provided services to public, parochial, choice, and charter...