Teacher Leadership Begins with Self-Leadership

Teacher Leadership as Distributed Leadership: heresy, fantasy or possibility?

This article focuses on the issue of teacher leadership and explores various interpretations and definitions within the literature. It examines the relationship between teacher leadership and distributed leadership, focusing particularly upon the idea of activity theory. The article suggests that there are some important connections and overlaps between distributed leadership and teacher leader...

Transformational Classroom Leadership: Developing the Teacher Leadership Notion

The literature on teacher-leadership suggests that the notion has developed over time and some have argued that this development comprises three stages or ‘waves’ that progressively de-link the idea from the formal organizational hierarchy. The third wave emphasizes that teacher-leadership is a process rather than a positional concept and notes that \teacher-leaders tend to possess many of the ...

Changing Concepts of Teacher Leadership

THE early theories of teaching styles operative within the instructional setting, were based on a few classical studies describing the social climate of the classroom. The most frequently quoted research of Anderson (2) and Lippitt-White (18) tended to view teacher leadership in terms of polar roles—dominative and integrative, auth oritarian or democratic teaching styles. The term "climate" was...

Teacher Perceptions of African-American Principal Leadership

The Role of Self-Leadership in Service Leadership

One of the core beliefs of the service leadership curriculum proposed by the Hong Kong Institute of Service Leadership and Management is that ‘Every day, every human occupies a position of leadership and possesses the potential to improve his leadership quality and effectiveness’. This core belief is in sharp contrast to some of the mainstream leadership theories that only a few people and elit...