Teach to Lead Overview

An initiative of the U.S. Department of Education and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

www.teachtolead.org

What is Teach to Lead?

Advancing student outcomes by expanding opportunities for teacher leadership—especially those that allow teachers to continue to teach.

Highlight promising models for teacher leadership

Share knowledge and resources

Encourage new commitments

Teacher expertise is essential to the decisions that affect student learning and the profession

Teachers who have leadership opportunities are more likely to stay in the profession

Effective teacher leadership = better outcomes for kids

Why teacher leadership?

Who is Teach to Lead?

30 organizations—and counting!—representing educators and other stakeholders have signed on as supporters

What about principals?

Teach to Lead invites principals to consider the potential of distributive leadership models and to collaborate with teachers to develop models within their schools.

By empowering teacher leaders, principals can ease their administrative burden and enable successful implementation of shared goals

Teacher leadership cannot thrive without the active support of highly effective leaders

www.teachtolead.org

How will it work?

Online…

• A new online community, Commit to Lead (C2L), invites educators to post ideas for teacher leadership and gain feedback.

• Teachtolead.org showcases resources and stories of teacher leadership in action from supporter organizations.

Offline…

• A series of Teacher Leadership Summits and Teacher Leadership Labs will connect stakeholders and spur new leadership commitments across the country.

C2L:Crowdsourcing teacher leadership

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C2L: What does an idea look like?

Increases pathways and opportunities for teachers to lead, especially those that allow teachers to continue to teach

Elevates teacherexpertise and influence in policy and practice

Expands teacher leadership efforts whether new, in-progress, or fully implemented

C2L:Share your idea in 300 words

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C2L:How does it work?

C2L:Growing the dialogue

• Ideas can include videos

• Commentsections invite feedback and discussion

• Leader Board recognizes members who post the most ideas and comments, and vote on other’s ideas.

What does teacher leadership look like?

www.teachtolead.net

TeachtoLead.org showcases real teacher leadershipstories from supporter organizations

Teacher Leader Summits & Labs

Regional Teacher Leadership Summits (3) Boston, Denver and Louisville, KY.

Local Teacher Leadership Labs (9) will be identified to foster and sustain meaningful teacher leadership commitments

Educators, supporter organizations and local networks share resources and develop actionable plans specific to their contexts

Teaching & Learning 2015 conference in March will highlight progress

Join Us!

Email [email protected] to learn how your organization can become a supporter of Teach to Lead

Submit teacher leadership stories to Teach to Lead

Submit teacher leadership resources such as your organization’s TL model

Help us expand the conversation

Ask your followers to join Commit to Lead

Help us grow on Facebook by sharing and posting comments

Follow us on Twitter @teachtolead (use hashtags #teacherleadership or #teachtolead)