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A Second Look At Literacy Leadership Preparation Practices, Laurie A. Sharp, Roberta D. Raymond, Rebekah Piper
A Second Look At Literacy Leadership Preparation Practices, Laurie A. Sharp, Roberta D. Raymond, Rebekah Piper
The Reading Professor
Abstract
In today’s schools, PreK-12 classroom teachers must be literacy leaders. The purpose of the current study was to examine how literacy teacher educators prepare future PreK-12 classroom teachers for literacy leadership. Using the International Literacy Association’s Standards 2017 publication as a framework and concepts of distributed leadership and teacher leadership as theoretical lenses, the current study employed a cross-sectional survey research design to ascertain current preparation practices. Qualitative data were collected among 86 literacy teacher educators who were affiliated with university-based teacher education programs located throughout the United States. Data were analyzed using a three-level classification diversity analysis and …