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4 Ways that Leadership Teams Create Conditions for Success in Schools
By Felicia Smith, Vivian Mihalakis, and Amy Slamp What makes successful schools tick? We know that great schools need great teachers, and great teachers in turn need skilled school leaders who can create the conditions within a school that enable teachers to help their students learn and achieve. Here are…

Q&A: How North High School’s Shared Leadership Team Creates a Healthy Culture of Collaboration
About seven years ago, Denver Public Schools set out to improve the way it provided teachers with opportunities to boost their leadership capacities. The district came up with a shared leadership team model that centers on teacher leaders playing the role of “Senior Team Leads” who spend half of their…

National Teacher of the Year Sydney Chaffee On How “All Teachers Can Be Leaders”
Sydney Chaffee recently was named National Teacher of the Year, but she doesn’t think she’s peaked yet. “As teachers, we always want to be better,” she says. And one way Chaffee does that is by taking on leadership roles that allow her to collaborate closely with her peers. In the…

4 Key Things to Know About Distributed Leadership
Great leadership is at the heart of every high-quality public school. Within schools, leadership is most effective when it’s distributed among a team of individuals with different skillsets and experiences but a shared mission to spark and sustain a school-wide culture of learning and improved outcomes for students. These types…
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