ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses three programs that have created organizational arrangements that support teacher leaders as they learn to negotiate the inevitable tensions of this new role. The three programs are the National Writing Project (NWP), the New Teacher Center (NTC), and the Teacher Learning and Leadership Program (TLLP). NWP started out as a way for teachers to share professional development with colleagues and then evolved over the next 30 years into a group of teachers devoted to improving student writing. Ellen Moir and her colleagues built a program that, like the NWP, has some core pieces that have developed over time. Since the founding of the NTC, the core programmatic structures have been introduced to different districts throughout the United States. Perhaps the most interesting support in the TLLP is that the Ministry of Education and the OTF have truly collaborated on this program.
