This new edition of

Teacher Leadership includes updates on the current context teachers find themselves in and contains portraits of teacher leaders in practice. It offers case studies of innovative programs that provide teachers with opportunities to lead within a professional community and outlines a new standard of teaching and community that recognizes all teachers as leaders. The book shows how to develop professional learning communities that include rather than exclude, create knowledge rather than merely apply it, and offers challenge and support to both new and experienced teachers. This book is a volume in the Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education.