featuring

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featuring
2006 - 2007
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TLN Staff

• John Bell, Coordinator
• Chris Wilson, Administrator
• Telena Madison, Liaison
• Gwendolyn Tilghman, Liaison
• Natasha Sims, Support

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Vision

• To promote and assist in establishing trained
  teacher leaders in Alabamas public schools as a
  part of the State Department of Educations (SDE)
  Leadership Development Program.

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Purpose

• Expand Empower Provide professional learning
  experiences Encourage, develop, and share
  knowledge of effective practices Explore future
  trends and Develop a professional leadership
  network.

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Alabamas Standards Supporting Teacher
Leadership

• Alabama Standards for Instructional Leaders
• Alabama Standards for Professional Development
• Alabama Quality Teaching Standards
• Alabama Educator Code of Ethics

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• Successful Completion
• TLN Three-Year Pilot Program

Built Capacity

• Book Studies Heart of Coaching by Crane
• Workshops
• - Curriculum Mapping and Aligning to
  Standards
• - Essential Tools for New Principals
  (Supporting ALA)
• - Alabama standards (leadership, professional
  development, quality
• teaching, code of ethics)
• Coaching and mentoring action plans
• Weekly communication-online newsletters
• - Marshall Memo
• - Teachers Teaching Teachers
• - Teacher Update
• - Excerpts from Edvantia online leadership
  courses
• Onsite technical support
• Materials provided
• - Teacher Leaders, How to Thrive as a Teacher
  Leader by Gabriel
• - Principals, School Leadership that Works by
  Marzano, Waters, and McNulty
• Recognition
• - Certificates to all TLN participants

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Collaboration Accountability Roundtable

• Provided Technical Support and Updates
• - Roundtable Members
• - School Support Teams
• - Regional School Improvement Coaches
• - School Improvement Specialists

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Supporting

• Online Professional Development
• Worked to ensure that Edvantia online
  professional development was implemented in
  selected schools statewide
• Leadership Website http//www.alex.state.al.us/lea
  dership
• Created and established the leadership website on
  ALEX
• Maintains the leadership website to ensure
  current information is available for Alabamas
  instructional leaders
• Governors Congress on School Leadership
• Governors Commission on Quality Teaching
• Torchbearer Schools
• Teacher Leadership
• Instructional Leadership
• Alabama Council for Leadership Development (ACLD)

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Teacher Leadership Expansion

• Guided by the Alabama Standards
• 2300 Leaders and teachers aware of standards
• through TLN presentations
• Teacher Leadership Identification
• 65 TLN Pilot Sites (2004-2007)
• 35 Electronic Professional Development Sites
  
• 26 Torchbearer Schools
• 900 Math and Science lead teachers in AMSTI
• 895 funded ARI and ARFI reading coaches
• 300 teachers trained as ARI faculty
• facilitators
• 23 schools not making AYP through the ART
• School Support Teams
• 2400 Teacher Leaders Identified Trained

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Lessons Learned

• Consistency in Leadership is vital to sustain a
  program.
• During the TLN pilot program the following
  percentages of personnel participated for the
  entire three years.
• 60 Principals
• 57 Teacher Leaders
• 8 SDE Liaisons
• Tangible rewards are helpful.
• Onsite technical assistance is appreciated.
• Staying connected via technology is increasingly
  important.
• Before sharing leadership, a school's team may
  benefit from
• Introduction and overview to shared leadership
• Voluntarily adopting shared leadership and
• Intensive training of effective instruction
  through shared leadership.
• Selected principals effectively utilized TLN to
  build capacity and strengthen shared leadership.

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Teacher Leader Network Becomes

• The SDE anticipates the TLN Pilot Sites will
• Continue implementing shared leadership
• Share lessons learned with colleagues and
• Build leadership capacity within their school
  system.

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Teacher LeadershipProjected Activities2007-2008

• Professional Development
• Alabamas Standards (11 RICs Train the trainers
  model building capacity statewide in all schools)
• Code of Ethics
• Quality Teaching
• Professional Development
• Instructional Leaders
• Differentiated Instruction (4 statewide)
• Professional Learning Communities (4 statewide)
• Technical Support upon request