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Help teachers listen, learn, and lead for powerful school reform!
Teacher insight and experience is a powerful yet underutilized resource in education, especially in these days of the new ESSA. Help teachers find their voice and positively influence their school's learning environment with this inspiring guide. Student aspirations pioneer, Russell Quaglia, helps you expertly facilitate the process. Using the author's three-part School Voice Model, you'll discover in-depth action steps to help you incorporate teacher voice that has to be heard to sustain change.
With Quaglia and Lande's clear, step-by-step guidance, teacher interviews, reflections, and expert research, you'll help teachers:
Work collaboratively for school change
Inspire and positively affect education stakeholders
Effectively express themselves
Build self-worth and realize their potential
Increase engagement and define a sense of purpose
Amplify their voice via technology
Bolster teacher leadership and improve retention, innovation, professional development, and student achievement with this breakthrough guide!
"In this innovative book, Russell Quaglia and Lisa Lande sets out how we can change that and how the voice of teachers can serve to systematically advance the knowledge-base of the profession and establish opportunities for exchange, collaboration and support. In today's world, even the best Minister of Education can no longer solve the challenges of millions of teachers. But if we can capitalise on the expertise of millions of teachers, we can create the world's best school system."
Andreas Schleicher
OECD
"Quaglia and Lande have produced a treasure trove of new and high leverage ideas. Teachers Voice contains two powerful messages. One is that teacher voice contains the seeds of widespread transformation of learning. The other main message, alas, is that teacher voice is vastly under utilized---and teachers know it! This book is a call and guide to action to leverage a resource that is under our noses. Read it and act."
Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus
University of Toronto
"Teaching and fishing? Only a couple very imaginative educators would pair these two topics in a book. But that is just what Russell Quaglia and Lisa Lande have done, and that is just what they are—imaginative, optimistic, and deep-thinking educators. Their triadic epigram—Listen, Learn, Lead—would have saved many a frustrated school administrator who thought they should start with 'lead.' This book is chock-full of sound advice, practical ideas, and voices of teachers, all describing how teachers work together and communicate with each other, with students, and with parents. Who, other than teachers, deserves a more prominent, yes central, role in any discussion of how schools improve. This is a delightful read that makes a less-imaginative educator want to get up in the morning and go to work. Or go fishing."
Dr. Sam Redding, Executive Director
Academic Development Institute
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1- ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE ME USE MY TEACHER VOICE? YES!
Whatever Teachers Do, It Is Better With Students
Why Student Voice and Teacher Voice Matter
A Model for Understanding Teacher Voice
Action Steps to Foster Teacher Voice
Teacher Reflections
CHAPTER 2- THE UNTAPPED POTENTIAL OF TEACHER VOICE
Teacher Voice Over the Years
Looking Ahead—Potential Impact of Teacher Voice
Teacher Aspirations
The Potential of Teacher Voice Realized
Action Steps to Tap the Full Potential of Teacher Voice
Teacher Reflections
CHAPTER 3- PATHWAYS TO TEACHER VOICE
Willingness and Readiness
Realizing the Potential of Teacher Voice Through the 3 Guiding Principles
Teacher Voice Making a Difference
Action Steps to Embrace Teacher Voice
Teacher Reflections
CHAPTER 4- EXPRESSION OF TEACHER VOICE
Balanced Conversation
Expression of Teacher Voice Linked to the Guiding Principles
Effective Expression of Teacher Voice
Voice with Balance, Engagement, and Action
Action Steps to Improve Teacher Voice
Teacher Reflections
CHAPTER 5- TEACHER VOICE: CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE AND INSPIRATION
Students
Colleagues
Leadership
Parents
Community
Action Steps to Foster the Influence of Teacher Voice
Teacher Reflections
CHAPTER 6- TEACHER VOICE AND TECHNOLOGY
Listen
Learn
Lead
Amplifying Teacher Voice Through Technology
Teacher Voice: Make It Roar!
Action Steps to Amplify Teacher Voice via Technology
Teacher Reflections
CHAPTER 7- IT IS TIME FOR YOUR VOICE TO BE HEARD
Amplifying Success
REFERENCES
INDEX
