Chapter 7: Teacher Leadership and Student Learning

This chapter synthesizes Chapters 3–6, traces contemporary educational policy, and explores its impact on teaching and learning in today’s schools before exploring professional development schools (PDS) as communities where teaching, learning, and leadership can thrive. Drawing from classic literature on educational leadership, the chapter weaves together implications for teacher leadership and student learning with recent and current standards for teacher leadership and for PDSs. It asserts that, rather than standards, Goodlad, Mantle-Bromley, and Goodlad’s (2004) Agenda for Education in a Democracy may impart greater meaning to teacher leaders’ contributions to the PDS movement.