ABSTRACT

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.

part 1|46 pages

What Is a Teacher Leader?

chapter 21|13 pages

The Road to Teacher Leadership

chapter 2|8 pages

The Goal, Not the Role

chapter 3|23 pages

Teacher Sighting

part 2|66 pages

Becoming a Teacher Leader

chapter 484|13 pages

Mentor Matchmaking

How to Find the Perfect One for You

chapter 7|12 pages

Growing into Teacher Leadership

part 3|40 pages

Evolving as a Teacher Leader

chapter 1149|11 pages

Dare to Dream

chapter 11|9 pages

Creating Your Own Opportunities

part 4|30 pages

Thriving as a Teacher Leader

chapter 15412|12 pages

Thriving Throughout the Journey

chapter 13|9 pages

What We Need

Nine Things to Help Teacher Leaders Thrive

chapter 14|7 pages

What to Do When You Don't Have Enough Time

part 5|27 pages

Developing Teacher Leaders

chapter 18415|9 pages

How to Champion Teacher Leaders

chapter 16|6 pages

How to Educate Teacher Leaders

chapter 17|5 pages

How to Reward Teacher Leaders

chapter 18|5 pages

How to Lead by Example