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TEACHER LEADER TEAM

• Amory School District

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District Mission

• The overarching mission of the Amory School
  District is to create opportunities for ALL
  students to achieve at the highest level
  possible.

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5 THINGS EVERY TEACHER SHOULD BE DOING

• Designing lesson plans that require students to
  use Higher Order Thinking (HOT) skills
• Create opportunities to actively engage all
  students in each lesson
• Make good decisions about texts used in class,
  stressing thematic connections and text
  complexity
• Use effective questioning to create discussions
  WITH and BETWEEN students
• Teach the concept of argument in all content
  areas.

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TLT

• You have been hand-picked by your principals
  because of your expertise and leadership
  abilities.

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THE NEED FOR TEACHER LEADERSHIP

• It is a concept whose time has come
• The best districts are districts in which
  teachers take initiative to help improve school
  and district-wide policies and programs, teaching
  and learning, and communication.

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WHY DO WE NEED TEACHER LEADERSHIP

• Teaching is a flat profession
• Teachers often stay at a school longer than
  administrators
• Demands on todays principals are practically
  impossible to meet
• Administrators have limited expertise in specific
  courses

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THE TWO TYPES OF TEACHER LEADER ROLES

• Formal
• Department chairs
• Master teachers
• Instructional coaches
• Duties-
• Manage curriculum projects
• Facilitate teacher data analysis groups
• Conduct teacher training sessions

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THE TWO TYPES OF TEACHER LEADER ROLES

• Informal
• Emerge spontaneously from teacher ranks
• Take initiative wherever help is needed
• No positional authority
• Influence comes from the respect they get because
  of their expertise and practice
• Call others to action and guide them in the
  accomplishment of the determined goal

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CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE TEACHERS LEADERS

• Willingness to collaborate with others
• Get colleagues to support vision and goals
• Build consensus among diverse group members
• Convince others of the importance and need for
  the goal
• Understand process of gathering and using data

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LEADERSHIP QUALITIES

• Be open-minded and respectful of others opinions
  and ideas
• Enthusiastic and optimistic
• Persistence, dont allow setbacks to derail
  reaching the goal
• Flexible
• Able to keep discussions on track
• Make decisions and monitor progress

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THREE AREAS OF INFLUENCE OF TEACHER LEADERS

• Within a department or specific team
• Across the school
• Beyond the school
• You are doing more than teaching your students,
  you are also influencing the educational
  environment in your community and, possibly, the
  state and nation

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CONDITIONS THAT PROMOTE TEACHER LEADERSHIP

• Safe environment for risk-taking
• Administrators who encourage teacher leaders
• Absence of the Tall Poppy syndrome
• Create opportunities for the development of
  teacher leadership

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PURPOSE OF THIS TEAM

• Gain Common Core expertise
• Spread Common Core expertise throughout the
  district
• Common Core implementation
• Increase Student Achievement

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TEAM NORMS

• Be at meetings and be on time. Plan to stay for
  the entire meeting. Appointments should be
  scheduled around meetings whenever possible.
• Prepare for meetings. Review materials given and
  be ready for next meeting so that we dont waste
  time
• Collaborate!!
• Take knowledge gained back to schools and help
  others put it into practice
• Be a team player, even if it means agreeing to
  disagree at times

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BINDERS

• Give out binders and discuss material to be
  covered at next meeting.
• Briefly discuss CCSS Anchor Standards, Math
  Practices, and appendices
• Set next meeting date and time