Teacher Leaders Make Change Ideas Stick

FOCUS

Teacher leaders make change ideas stick

By Sara DeMartino, Glenn Nolly and Anthony Petrosky

Categories: Improvement science/networks, Mentoring & induction, Teacher leadership

April 2023

Learning to use improvement science — a structured process for planning, implementing, and studying change efforts — takes time. That time is a worthwhile investment for schools aiming to shift teaching and learning, but it can be a barrier in schools that are often beset by leadership turnover. How can schools, and external partners like us, address that challenge and help improvement science efforts achieve their potential? In our work supporting improvement in secondary school literacy practices, we at the Institute for Learning have discovered the power of teacher leadership to institutionalize knowledge, spread innovation, and maintain the momentum of improvement science efforts. When veteran teachers offer coaching, feedback, and follow-up to other teachers in their schools, they can help improvement practices stick (Hill &

Read the remaining content with membership access. Join or log in below to continue.

Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam, eaque ipsa quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos qui ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt. Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem.

References

Brown, A. (2020). Curanderismo. In Sana Sana. Game Over Books.

Davis, D.S. & Vehabovic, N. (2017). The dangers of test preparation: What students learn (and don’t learn) about reading comprehension from test‐centric literacy instruction. The Reading Teacher, 71(5), 579-588.

Hill, H.C. & Papay, J.P. (2022). Building better PL: How to strengthen teacher learning. Research Partnership for Professional Learning.

McConachie, S.M. & Petrosky, A.R. (2009). Content matters: A disciplinary literacy approach to improving student learning. John Wiley & Sons.

Odell, S.J. & Ferraro, D.P. (1992). Teacher mentoring and teacher retention. Journal of Teacher education, 43(3), 200-204.

TEA. (2019). Texas Education Agency 2018-19 school report card W H ADAMSON H S (057905002). Author. mydata.dallasisd.org/docs/SRC/1819/SRC/201819_SRC_2.pdf

Wang, J. & Odell, S.J. (2002). Mentored learning to teach according to standards-based reform: A critical review. Review of Educational Research, 72(3), 481-546.