Full Description
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.
Contents
Part 1: What is a Teacher Leader? 1. The Road to Teacher Leadership 2. The Goal and 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 as a Teacher Leader 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
