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To know about change is to know about inertia, which is to say that sometimes the status quo needs a wake up call. You can’t wait for success, you have to kick-start it.” (Fullan, 2009)

Teacher leadership plays a pivotal role in student achievement. Our globalized, networked age requires students to become knowledge workers.

we describe the knowledge and skills that will identify teacher leaders. The Standards offer some considerations for practice, as well as support strategies for implementing teacher leadership roles within schools and districts.
Transforming Authority and Influence
The traditional hierarchical structure of schools is a holdover from the industrial age, when teachers were treated like interchangeable parts in a machine. To improve education in America, the way education stakeholders and the public at large perceive authority and influence should change, recognizing that teachers have content and pedagogical expertise that administrators often don’t. Instead of top-down leadership, the Standards imagine school cultures in which teacher leaders and administrators have reciprocal relationships, supporting one another’s work and sharing responsibility for outcomes.