Tapping into Leadership Potential

Work in schools for a couple of decades and you cannot help but see the correlation between effective schools and teacher leadership. A study from 2009 shows that administrators who seek out and develop this leadership "in very deliberate ways to ensure high levels of student learning" lead successful schools. The article from Education Week TEACHER, Potential Leaders Are All Around Us, discusses the findings from this study and points out that most successful teachers do NOT seek out leadership roles until an invitation is made. The implications of this finding is that much of the talent goes untapped. Something to think about....