Teacher Leadership & Collaboration Roles and Selection

What is Teacher Leadership & Collaboration? Lead without leaving the classroom Magnifying a great teacher’s impact Real-time actionable feedback and coaching Building great teams for every school Notes: Teacher Leadership & Collaboration is a leadership model that has been successfully implemented in 71 schools across DPS over the past three years and is continuing to expand this year. This model allows highly effective teachers to share the expertise they have developed with fellow teachers, extending a great teacher’s impact to multiple classrooms and helping more students grow. At a Teacher Leadership & Collaboration school, teachers are organized into teams guided by a team lead. Team leads provide the teachers on their teams with one-on-one coaching, evaluation, and real-time feedback that helps improve teaching and learning every single day. Team leads also facilitate collaborative team time so that teachers can share ideas and learn from each other. Team leads spend about half their time teaching and half their time working with their team of teachers. The “hybrid” team lead role allows teachers to advance their careers by developing leadership skills while staying true to their first love: teaching their own classroom of kids. The goal is for all DPS teachers to be organized into a team supported by a team lead by the 2019-2020 school year.

What activities do teacher leaders support? Teacher leaders support activities like: Facilitation of teacher planning time Bringing teachers together to review student work Observation, feedback, coaching for individuals Supporting first-year teachers to help them thrive Bringing together “specials” teachers to help music teachers work with other music teachers, art teachers to work with art teachers, etc.

A day in the life of a teacher leader

Why are we adopting this model? DPS OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION Supports teacher growth Provides more frequent and actionable feedback and coaching for teachers Strengthens teams in schools Increase opportunities for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing through teacher teams led by teachers Attracts and retains strong teachers Innovative leadership roles can bring new life to a teacher’s practice and keep great teachers in the classroom and profession Increases distributive leadership Builds stronger leadership teams while growing and developing potential Aps and principals

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By the numbers

TLC selection Process The selection process for teacher leaders for 2016-17 will be streamlined and aligned across the district DPS schools anticipate needing 200-250 new Senior Team Leads to support teachers across the district in 2016-17, plus an additional ~300 other teacher leader roles will compliment teacher support. <<INSERT SCHOOL BASED INFORMATION>> Typically, 2 out of 3 team leads are retained in role each year There is a district-wide eligibility criteria and selection processes For first bullet: Resources are embedded in the DPS Staffing and Renewal Handbook for principals Application and selection is embedded into GHR HR teams are collaborating to embed support for recruitment and selection into standard hiring and selection processes For the third bullet: Teacher leaders transferring out of role tend to stay in district serving in other school leader or district leadership roles For the fourth bullet: Principals invite candidates to interview and utilize their Personnel Committees for final decisions on all teacher leader selections

Tlc roles available at <<Insert SCHOOL>> for 2016-17 Team Supported Release time (if applicable) Role Details (example) Senior Team Lead ECE-K-1st (6 teachers) .5 Stipend information, teaching position, timeline, additional selection criteria

Recruitment and selection Timeline Dec-Jan Opportunities shared within school buildings, interest discussed during mid-years January 22 Selection begins for in-building candidates February 24 Selection begins for external candidates May 1 Recommended deadline for final selections June 1 Final deadline for selecting 2016-17 teacher leaders

Questions? To learn more about Teacher Leadership & Collaboration visit: Visit us on The Commons: http://thecommons.dpsk12.org/TLC Our website: www.teacherleader.dpsk12.org Email: Teacherleader@dpsk12.org