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Cultivating Massachusetts Public Elementary School Formal Teacher-Leadership, Amy Mitchell
Cultivating Massachusetts Public Elementary School Formal Teacher-Leadership, Amy Mitchell
Educational Studies Dissertations
In Massachusetts public elementary schools, teaching and leadership roles are perceived as mutually exclusive rather than interwoven. Despite credentials that would recognize Massachusetts public elementary school teachers as leaders beyond their classrooms, the leadership frame of reference attests that those who have the position, power and authority to lead (e.g., superintendents, directors, principals) are the leaders of schools and school districts. Because of this, the prospect of an expanded pathway for formal public elementary school teacher-leadership is challenged and there is a dearth of literature pertaining to formal teacher-leadership practices in public elementary schools. This study sought to understand this …