State Teams See Mixed Progress on Teacher-Leadership Initiatives

Education Week: With rain cascading outside, groups of educators and administrators from seven states gathered in a hotel conference room in Tyson's Corner, Va., last May to discuss teacher leadership. If everything went right, they would leave with plans to foster the concept on a statewide scale.

The meeting in the Washington suburb fell under the auspices of Teach to Lead, the then-fledgling effort of the U.S. Department of Education and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards that has aspired to develop and support the roles of teacher-leaders in districts across the country.

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