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Teacher Leader And Teacher Leadership: A Call For Conceptual Clarity, Susan Lovett
Teacher Leader And Teacher Leadership: A Call For Conceptual Clarity, Susan Lovett
2009 - 2019 ACER Research Conferences
Education systems cannot afford to lose promising teachers who could be the school leaders of tomorrow. My work shows a need to promote leadership as learning for teachers and students rather than as management and administration, heavy workloads and disconnectedness from students and their learning. Conceptions of leadership that allow teachers to see professional learning as the reason for their work make a contribution to school leadership as a whole. Schools benefit from leaders at all levels no matter their distance to classrooms. School cultures can stimulate leadership practices when professional learning exchanges among teachers are reciprocated. Professional learning is …
Nourishing Teachers’ Leadership For Learning: Insights From Practitioner Research, Simon Clarke
Nourishing Teachers’ Leadership For Learning: Insights From Practitioner Research, Simon Clarke
2009 - 2019 ACER Research Conferences
This session contends that leadership and learning are mutually supporting and reinforcing. It is only recently that attempts have been made to describe in practice the complex connections existing between the two activities by drawing on empirical evidence. To this end, this session will depict ways in which leadership and learning are indispensable to each other in day-to-day teachers’ work, and the implications this symbiosis has for practice. Firstly, the session will consider the key foundations and principles of leadership for learning, especially as they relate to the Carpe Vitam international leadership for learning research project. Secondly, we will discuss …