A different model for school success: Empower teachers   

Sometimes we are so accustomed to the way things are that we can’t imagine a different way of doing things. For example, in 1927, one of the Warner brothers made a famously wrong prediction: “Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”  

When it comes to defining teacher leadership, how much do we limit ourselves by assuming that the way teachers work today must always be the way teachers work? Most of us assume that schools must be managed from the top down, so a teacher’s job must be to implement and support whatever federal, state, and district leaders decide. We assume teachers are in charge of classroom management but not whole-school management.