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Fostering Teacher Leadership:
Strengthening Your Organization
From the Inside Out
By Laura Elizabeth Godlesky, Ed.D., Director of Curriculum and Instruction,
Keyport Public Schools
The expectations placed tors; it means that schools must tap fessional development that contributes
upon school leaders into the leadership resource closest to to continuous improvement (Ippolito,
the learning — its teachers.
2010). The state of New Jersey has
continue to grow, yet the Unfortunately, teacher leadership is an also formally recognized the impor-
leadership structure has underutilized strategy in some schools. tance of teacher leadership by passing
Bill 165 which will authorize teacher
not shifted to meet them. Because of their proximity to the leader endorsements to the instruc-
learning and their colleagues, teacher
One person cannot be the only re- leaders are the ideal candidates to tional certificate of eligible teachers.
source to meet the diverse needs of recognize problems of practice and This bill was modeled after the seven
students today. This does not mean influence the norms and shifts that domains of the Teacher Leader Model
that schools need more administra- support ongoing job-embedded pro- Standards and articulates the state
definition of a teacher leader.
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