PDD3

Demonstrator 3. Teacher Leadership Teachers are leaders in their professional community, and guide/lead professional developement that meets the needs of the professional learning community. a) Teacher leaders (e.g. classroom teachers, department chairs, literacy leaders, instructional coaches, resource teachers, counselors) are selected to represent an intentional distributed leadership, respresenting all disciplines and support staff development in teaching writing and communication skills. b) Teacher leaders develop school-wide writing and communication goals and annuallly revisit those goals. c) Teacher leaders support the PD action plan through facilitating learning and modeling best practices for instruction in writing and communication skills, as identified from formative and summative assessments. d) Teacher leaders collectively gather data, make decisions, and follow up to support ongoing progress in goals-driven writing and communications initiatives. e) Teacher leaders collaborate with internal and external experts to share expertise related to writing and communications.