Collaborative teacher leadership : how teachers can foster equitable schools /: how teachers can foster equitable schools. ([2006])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Martin L. Krovetz, Gilberto Arriaza.
• Authors: Krovetz, Martin L; Arriaza, Gilberto
• Contents: Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Author; 1. Reframing School Culture; What I Am Becoming; What Does This Look Like? Changing the Nature of Work; Why Do It? It Is About Quality of Life and Learning!; Fostering Resiliency: A Lens for Reframing Culture; Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace; Essential Questions; Resources; Endnotes; 2. Learning to Lead; Why the Need to Distribute Leadership?; The Skills, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Skillful Teacher Leaders; New Roles, New Relationships; Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace; Essential Questions; Resources; Survey; How Did We Do? --A Teacher Survey; Endnotes; 3. Influencing Student Learning; Closing the Achievement Gap and Habits of Mind; Valuing the Staff; Focusing Resources; Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace; Essential Questions; Resources; Endnotes; 4. The Role of Inquiry; Definition of Collaborative Action Research; Collaborative Action Research, When Well Conducted, Brings Out the Best in Its Members; Action Research Has an Invaluable Application to the Classroom; The Potential Power of Collaborative Action Research as a Methodology to Enact Schoolwide Sustained Change; Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace; Essential Questions; Resources; 5. Building Equity in Diverse Classrooms; Distributing Teachers' Work; Personalizing Teaching and Learning; Students' Academic Performance at the Center of Staff Conversations; Having the Equity Conversation; What Equity-Focused Schools Look Like; Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace; Essential Questions; Resources; Endnote; 6. Advocating for Students and Teachers; Advocacy: Adding Voice to a Cry; Advocacy for Students; The Whole Child; Supporting Parents as Advocates for Student Learning; Advocacy for Beginning Teachers; Advocacy for Teachers; Political Advocacy; Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace; Essential Questions; Resources; Endnote; 7. Courageous Followers and Leaders; Spreading One's Wings: Lessons Learned While Becoming Leaders of Change and Transition; Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change; The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To and For Our Leaders; Applying the Concepts in Your Workplace; Essential Questions; Resources; Conclusion; Appendix A: List of Contributors; References; Index;
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : Corwin
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxii, 194 pages)
• Subjects: 371.106; Teacher participation in administration; Teacher effectiveness; Educational leadership; School management and organization
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452212203; 1452212201
• Related ISBNs: 141290501X; 1412905028
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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