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Teacher-Powered Practices: How Teacher Teams Collaboratively Lead and Create Student-Centered Schools
Fall 2019. The guide identifies nine common practices used at teacher-powered schools, and includes examples written by teacher-powered leaders who describe what the practice looks like at their site.
Spring 2019. Use this guide to learn from the knowledge and skills of expert teacher-powered administrators, as well as reflect individually and as a team on what is best for your school.
Updated Fall 2017. We have identified 15 areas in which teacher teams have secured autonomy to make decisions impacting school and student success. This publication describes those areas in detail, and provides examples of what they look like in practice.
Fall 2016. Many teacher-powered schools identify as community schools, and vice versa. Read more about the parallels between these two models, here.
July 2016. An infographic about Woods Learning Center—a teacher-powered school in Wyoming—where Mrs. Jackson and her student Jude engage in similar learning and innovation skills.
Summer 2014. A set of blog posts written by practicing educators in teacher-powered schools.
May 2014. The initial white paper of the Teacher-Powered Schools Initiative, which describes the results of national research that found overwhelming support for the "teacher-powered" idea among teachers and the general public.
October 2012. A book on teacher-powered schools by authors Kim Farris-Berg and Ed Dirkswager, with Amy Junge. Their research found that teachers make choices associated with high-performing cultures when they collectively secure autonomy to design and manage schools. This finding is foundational to our teacher-powered work.