Critical Approaches to Teacher Leadership

KaaVonia Hinton is a professor in the Teaching & Learning Department at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.Jori S. Beck is an associate professor of research design, methods, and analysis in the School of Education at the College of William & Mary.

"Teacher leadership is in crisis today: Teachers who could be leading true school transformation are too often stuck in roles designed only to help principals maintain the status quo. This collection contains theory and practice that will help educators return teacher leadership to its noble roots, grounded in resistance and revolution!"Jill Harrison Berg, Ed.D., Author of Leading in Sync: Teacher Leaders and Principals Working Together for Student Learning (ASCD, 2018) "Critical Approaches to Teacher Leadership powerfully reimagines teacher leadership through critical and antiracist frameworks, showing how educators can intervene in inequitable practices and better support marginalized students. This timely and important volume provides teacher leaders with the insight and tools to challenge and transform oppressive systems in practice."Jennifer Jacobs, University of South Florida, USA"As traditionalized leadership pathways continue to reinforce whiteness, Drs. Hinton and Beck offer refreshing visions for anti-racist, critical, collaborative teacher leadership. This book democratizes the way schools are organized and experienced through multifaceted chapters that move from the violence of standards towards the heartbeat of student-centric transformation."Christopher B. Knaus, Professor, University of Washington Tacoma, USA"This engaging collection does vital work by reimagining teacher leadership through various critical theories. Each chapter illustrates what teacher leadership can look like when committed to disrupting harmful structures and inequitable systems. The book is a roadmap to better schools, and thus a better world."Henry “Cody” Miller, SUNY Brockport, USA"Critical Approaches to Teacher Leadership draws on the expertise of prominent scholars to provide meaningful and actionable insights in an area of teacher leadership that hasn't received the attention it deserves. This book is what we need in teacher leadership right now."Peter Wiens, Associate Professor of Teacher Education, University of Nevada, USA

• Part 1: Identity, Equity, and Teacher Leadership 1. “The Obligation… Is to Examine Society and Try to Change It”: (Re)Defining Teacher Leadership through the History of Black Teachers in the Segregated South 2. Coupling Transformative Leadership and Critical Race Theory: Autoethnographies of Teacher Leaders of Color 3. “Do Versus Be”: Promoting Positive Racial Identity Development in White Teacher Leaders Part 2: Centering Socially Just and Inclusive Practices 4. Using Counterstorytelling to Understand How Veteran Teacher Leaders are Disrupting Systemic Inequities in Education 5. Teacher Leaders as Agents of DisCrit: Transforming Educational Practices 6. Teacher Leaders Within a Multiracial Democracy: AANHPI Heritage Month in Elementary Schools as a Focal Point Part 3: Cultivating Critically Driven Teacher Leadership 7. Critical Teacher Leadership in Practice: Supporting Teacher Purpose to Disrupt Racism, Inequity, and Power 8. Leading Critically, Teaching Culturally: Towards a Framework for Critical Teacher Leadership 9. Equity-Focused Professional Learning Communities to Combat Inequities in In-Service Teacher Training and Student Learning 10. Finding Your People: Induction as a Social Justice Teacher Leadership Incubator Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here? Critical Hope for the Future of Teacher Leadership