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Title
Teacher leadership: a little less conversation, a little more action research
Description
Though National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs) in Arizona have been identified as leaders on a national level, they do not have comparable opportunities to lead within their local contexts or engage in leadership and collaboration activities that align with Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) Standard 10. The purpose of this sequential, mixed-methods study was to explore how the development of a teacher leadership community of practice for NBCTs might influence their perceptions of themselves as leaders. Social constructionism, action research, and communities of practice guided the innovation and a mixed-methods approach was used for data collection and analysis. Data illustrated NBCTs’ dichotomous feelings about leadership on local and national levels. Findings revealed that NBCTs need continued professional learning opportunities, beyond National Board Certification, to resolve feelings of isolation and fully meet all of the leadership and collaboration indicators for InTASC Standard 10. Participating in a teacher leadership community of practice (a) provided a professional learning opportunity for NBCTs, (b) improved NBCTs’ perceptions of teacher leadership and helped them define it as an active process of learning, reflection, and action, and (c) increased NBCTs’ readiness to take action as teacher leaders within their local contexts to evoke positive change.
Date Created
2016
Contributors
- Adams, Alaina (Author)
- Marley, Scott C. (Thesis advisor)
- Koro-Ljungberg, Mirka (Committee member)
- Allen, Althe (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
- Educational leadership
- Teacher Education
- Action Research
- Communities of practice
- InTASC
- National Board Certification
- professional learning
- teacher leadership
- Teachers--In-service training--Arizona.
- Teachers
- Educational leadership--Arizona.
- Educational leadership
- Communities of practice--Arizona.
- Communities of practice
- Action research--Arizona.
- Action Research
Resource Type
Extent
viii, 130 pages : color illustrations
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.38463
Statement of Responsibility
by Alaina Adams
Description Source
Viewed on June 16, 2016
Level of coding
full
Note
thesis
Partial requirement for: Ed.D., Arizona State University, 2016
bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 86-91)
Field of study: Leadership and innovation
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- 2016-06-01 08:08:29
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- 2021-08-30 01:24:24
- 3 years ago
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