Traditionally, teachers who want to take on leadership opportunities
have to leave the classroom to pursue a non-teaching path. However, TEACHERPRENEURS:
Innovative Teachers Who Lead but Don’t Leave (Jossey-Bass, August 2013;
$26.95; Paper; ISBN: 978-1-118-45619-4) calls for a new brand of
teacher leadership, one that will create opportunities for teachers to
practice, share and grow their knowledge and expertise. A teacherpreneur
is both a classroom expert and a leader who can inspire much-needed
education reforms that impact the students they teach and many others.
TEACHERPRENEURS examines the skills and traits of
teacherpreneurs, such as intelligent humility, well-traveledness and
independence. The book documents the leadership journeys of eight
teacher leaders who are innovating within and beyond the classroom.
These classroom experts use their knowledge of student learning to
influence policies and spread best practices that allow them and their
colleagues to teach more effectively. Though their leadership is
challenged by organizational barriers and outdated school structures,
they advance their ideas and work for the benefit of the profession—and
their students.
Though the teachers profiled in the book are exceptional leaders, they
are not the exception. Hundreds of thousands of teachers across the
country are ready to lead. Each chapter of the book includes how-to
activities for readers who are interested in developing and effectively
articulating their own teacherpreneurial skills and action plans.
Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at
Stanford University, said that “Barnett Berry and colleagues have
written a powerful book—offering us a powerful, new way to think about
the teaching profession, now and in the future....Filled with rich
narratives and research, this book is a must read for teachers,
administrators, and researchers, as well as education policy leaders who
must invest in teaching to build the profession-wide expertise that our
students need and deserve.”
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