Research on Teacher Leadership: Assessing the State of the Art

Abstract

Teacher leadership has become a key element of recent initiatives to reform schools. Opportunities for teacher leadership have come from an array of new programs and policies. They have come from career ladder and teacher mentoring programs. They have come from policies that designate master and lead teachers to direct school improvement. They have also come from efforts of administrators to decentralize and share decision-making authority (Smylie & Denny, 1990).