Teacher Leadership & Deeper Learning for All Students

This paper is about transforming how students learn and lead by re-evaluating the systems that govern teacher learning and leadership.  By integrating a variety of research evidence and narratives, the author examines current reforms' limitations, explore deeper learning’s promise, and summarize a rich research literature about how teachers learn to lead.  Author Barnett Berry also identifies three promising shifts: next-generation accountability approaches that tap (and make more visible) teacher expertise, increasing awareness of how top-performing nations invest in teacher leaders (as well as of how leadership is flattening in the private sector), and online networks that make it easier than ever for teachers to learn from and collaborate with one another.