The Center for Teacher Leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University offers two-day conferences designed to give teacher leaders the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that they will need to work... Read more »
Training for Teacher-Leaders
A growing number of national training programs support teacher leaders in various roles, including those who lead job-embedded professional learning. Links to these programs are included here.
Designed exclusively for KIPP teachers in leadership roles, the KIPP Teacher Leader Program is designed to help teacher leaders hone their instructional skills while learning new strategies to bring... Read more »
Through a two-year fellowship, Leading Educators partners with schools and districts to maximize the leadership development of early- to middle-career teachers to bolster the talent pipeline,... Read more »
The Learning Forward Academy is a two-and-a-half-year program designed to empower teacher leaders to improve their instructional practice and become professional learning subject-matter experts so... Read more »
The National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education (NAATE) two-year program is designed to enable experienced, high-performing teachers to deepen their classroom practice and gain skills to lead... Read more »
The National Network of State Teachers of the Year provides training workshops led by state teachers of the year for teacher leaders.
The one-year Emerging Leaders Program is designed to strengthen the leadership skills of talented teachers, coaches, and assistant principals in partner districts and charter management organizations... Read more »
New York City has a variety of opportunities for teachers interested in teacher leadership, from roles for specific instructional hurdles (such as the implementation of the Common Core standards) to... Read more »
This two-year, full-time program from National Louis University focuses specifically on training teachers to lead Reading Recovery programs in their schools.
This toolkit from Leading Educators is designed to help state teams focusing on teacher leadership study other states’ approaches, identify strategies they can use, and find resources to support... Read more »
This toolkit from Leading Educators is designed to help state teams focusing on teacher leadership study other states’ approaches, identify strategies they can use, and find resources to support... Read more »
This toolkit from Leading Educators is designed to help state teams focusing on teacher leadership study other states’ approaches, identify strategies they can use, and find resources to support... Read more »
This toolkit from Leading Educators is designed to help state teams focusing on teacher leadership study other states’ approaches, identify strategies they can use, and find resources to support... Read more »
TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement allows teachers to pursue a variety of leadership positions throughout their careers, including mentor and master teacher.
The Teach Plus T3 Initiative recruits, develops, and supports highly effective, experienced teachers to lead teams in turnaround efforts in low-performing schools.
A joint initiative begun in spring 2014 by the National Education Association, the Center for Teaching Quality, and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, the Teacher Leadership... Read more »
This report examines promising early results from the Emerging Leaders selective teacher leadership program run by New Leaders; it argues that appropriate preparation strategies and clear... Read more »
This report examines promising early results from the Emerging Leaders selective teacher leadership program run by New Leaders; it argues that appropriate preparation strategies and clear... Read more »
