...Ami Pritchard; Peter Wiens; Charles Brown; Andromeda Hightower Purpose Formal mentorship provides mentors with opportunities to demonstrate teacher leadership potential, benefiting both themselves and their mentees. However, the practices of mentors serving in this capacity remain understudied...

... of teacher leadership in the context of dialogic peer coaching. Design/methodology/approach – The research was undertaken as a small qualitative case study embedded in a school-based, teacher professional development project. Nine groups of peer coaches from five unrelated schools engaged in a formal...

... the instructional plan and objectives from the peer. The coaches observe the lesson discussed. Then they conduct a debrief conversation within a few days after the observation. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Continuous improvement Teacher leadership Evidence-based practice Peer coaching...