Teacher Ownership, Knowledge & Leadership

Category : Creating and Sustaining the Conditions

Level : School

To what extent do teachers and school leaders demonstrate ownership, learn about, and exercise leadership with regard to more and better learning time implementation strategies?

Successful implementation of more and better learning time is dependent on the ownership and leadership of teacher-led efforts throughout the implementation process. Teachers’ expertise, experience, and on-the-ground understanding of effective implementation strategies are key to learning and development. Teachers are professionals and scholars who require time and space to develop their own learning and practice. This can be achieved through collaboration among colleagues and other educational providers, within and outside their schools.

• Teachers have the opportunity to learn about more and better learning time and develop understanding of the issues this approach seeks to address.
• Teachers lead and implement more and better learning time efforts at their schools.
• Teachers understand alignment between more and better learning time and other reforms/initiatives (e.g., Common Core State Standards).
• There is evidence that school faculty and/or staff are working directly with faculty and/or staff of community programs offered to students.
• Teachers use more and better learning time as a strategy to improve learning for their students.
• Teachers have the opportunity to share their knowledge and to learn from others through professional development in and out of the school and/or district.