The time of exclusive top-down leadership is over! Only teachers can transform education from inside the classroom, and this book defines best practices of collaborative teacher leadership. Specific techniques, supporting research, expert insight, and real classroom stories illustrate how to work together for student learning, create a guaranteed and viable curriculum, and use data to inform instruction.
Define and implement best practices for collaborative teacher leadership in a PLC. Discover how to work together for student learning and how to create a guaranteed and viable curriculum. Explore the many ways data can be utilized to inform instruction. Use common assessments to bridge the gap between teaching and learning.
Foreword by Rebecca DuFour
Introduction by Richard DuFour
Part Working Together for Student Learning
Chapter 1: The New Teacher Transforming Education From Inside the Classroom
Chapter 2: Creating Intentional Collaboration
Chapter 3: Teacher How Collaboration Gets to the Heart of Great Schools
Part Creating a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum
Chapter 4: Too Much to How to Identify What Matters Most
Chapter 5: Instructional Improvement From the Inside Lesson Study at Work
Chapter 6: Connecting Curriculum Mapping to Assessment for Learning
Part Using Data to Reach All Students
Chapter 7: Teaching in the Dark
Chapter 8: Common Bridging the Gap Between Teaching and Learning
Chapter 9: An Integrated Response to Eight Strategies That Work