Build your success as a teacher leader with the practical advice in this book. Award-winning educator Melissa Collins shows how you can grow in your role by fostering relationships with colleagues, organizations, and mentors. She also spotlights rock star educators. She offers thorough advice on a wide variety of topics such as finding the right support, building your reputation, reinventing yourself, knowing your purpose, and developing leadership mindsets. She also explains how to manage your time wisely, build a network, enact purposeful practice, and, most of all, dare to dream. Appropriate for teachers at any level of their career who want to take on a larger role in their school or beyond, the book’s honest anecdotes and step-by-step suggestions will put you on the right path, so teacher leaders can develop in their careers and help their students thrive.
Author(s): Melissa Collins
Publisher: Routledge/Eye on Education
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 226
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Meet the Author
PART 1: What Is a Teacher Leader?
1. The Road to Teacher Leadership
2. The Goal, Not the Role
3. Teacher Sighting
PART 2: Becoming a Teacher Leader
4. Mentor Matchmaking: How to Find the Perfect One for You
5. Navigating Key Relationships in Your School and Community
6. Building a Reputation of Positive Transformation
7. Growing into Teacher Leadership
8. Why Reinventing Yourself Will Elevate Your Career to New Heights
PART 3: Evolving as a Teacher Leader
9. Dare to Dream
10. Moments That Transform Teachers’ Lives and Careers
11. Creating Your Own Opportunities
PART 4: Thriving as a Teacher Leader
12. Thriving Throughout the Journey
13. What We Need: Nine Things to Help Teacher Leaders Thrive
14. What to Do When You Don’t Have Enough Time
PART 5: Developing Teacher Leaders
15. How to Champion Teacher Leaders
16. How to Educate Teacher Leaders
17. How to Reward Teacher Leaders
18. How to Lead by Example
Afterword
