Collaborative Leadership for Thriving Teams: A Guide for Teacher-Powered Site Administrators

October 2019 • Educator Resources

Expert administrators at teacher-powered schools share tips and lessons learned, as well as discussion questions for you and your team to reflect on what is best for your school.

Distributed leadership, professional collaboration, and teachers’ job satisfaction in U.S. schools

March 2019 • Doctoral Dissertations

This study uses hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) to investigate relationships among distributed leadership, professional collaboration, and teachers' job satisfaction in U.S. schools.

Teacher-Powered School Origin Stories

November 2018 •

Teacher-powered leaders share their beginnings, challenges, and triumphs in these short reports about their schools.

Teacher-Powered School Site Visit Guide

May 2018 • Educator Resources

Ideas for questions for your team to ask and protocols to follow when visiting another teacher-powered school.

Fifteen Areas of Collective Teacher Autonomy

March 2018 • Core Publications

We have identified 15 areas in which teacher teams have secured autonomy to make decisions impacting school and student success. This publication describes those areas in detail, and provides examples of what they look like in practice.

Intersections Between Teacher-Powered & Community Schools

January 2018 •

Many teacher-powered schools identify as community schools, and vice versa. Read more about the parallels between these two models, here.

Five Innovative Skills Mastered in Teacher-Powered Schools

July 2016 •

An infographic about Woods Learning Center—a teacher-powered school in Wyoming—where Mrs. Jackson and her student Jude engage in similar learning and innovation skills.

Steps to Creating a Teacher-Powered School

January 2016 • Educator Resources

A step-by-step resources to use in launching a new teacher-powered school, including a handful of tips and resources for each step.

Sample Documents: A Collection

January 2016 • Educator Resources

A collection of sample documents from teacher-powered schools, including decision-making procedures, organizational structures, school proposals, and more.

Lessons from the Innovators: Discussion Starters for Creating a Teacher-Powered School

October 2015 • Educator Resources

Interactive resources featuring sets of lessons learned, tips, and discussion questions for teacher teams to take up as a group.