ABSTRACT
This chapter is dedicated to improving teacher leadership by taking a strategic approach to leading leaders. In addition to understanding the elements of an effective distributive leadership model, it is vital to recognize that leading leaders and developing teacher leaders must be intentional work. A key to supporting the development of the leadership team is identifying specific skills and characteristics that need to be developed and creating a training curriculum to address them. In fact, leadership development should be woven into the culture of the school and every team should allocate no less than a third of the meeting time to leadership alone. Levin and Schrum noted that every teacher has the capacity to lead if the environment is right and if their skills, knowledge, and dispositions are fostered in a way that allows them to flourish through a distributed leadership model.
