Teacher Leaders in TLA:

• strengthen and refine their teacher leader dispositions, knowledge, and skills;
  
• deepen their understanding of a teacher leader’s role in a continuous school improvement process; and
  
• lead collaborative inquiry to support teachers in addressing student-centered challenges.
  

TLA aims to inspire teacher leaders to continue developing their leadership skills and to guide teacher leaders in setting their leadership goals.

Before applying to TLA

• reflect on your readiness by using the Teacher Leader Look Fors
  
• initiate conversation with your principal and collaboratively reflect on your readiness into TLA
  

Program Support

12-month teachers need to take vacation days during the Summer Institute to be eligible for the PD credits.

All TLA related-costs (substitutes, stipends, travel, and PD credits) for Hawaii Public Charter School participants are at the expense of the teacher leader’s charter school.

Eligibility Criteria and Application Process

TLA applicants must meet the following criteria:

• tenured, highly-qualified, and effective teachers
  
• demonstrate teacher leader dispositions, knowledge, and skills
  
• have experience with engaging in school or system-wide improvement efforts that increase student achievement, enhance professional practice and organization change
  
• Submit application and upload principal recommendation letter and narratives to www.ehr.k12.hi.us.
  

Program Expectations

• attend all TLA in-person professional learning sessions on Oahu which includes a three (3) day summer institute, followed by nine (9) sessions throughout the school year

• lead a Collaborative Inquiry PLC

• apply leadership knowledge and skills to improve professional practice at their school, complex area, or state-level office

• develop a Leadership Growth Plan (LGP) in collaboration with their Principal or supervisor

• write reflective narratives throughout the program to document their leadership development

• complete asynchronous tasks and prepare for monthly professional learning sessions

Program Calendar

Collaborative Inquiry

Collaborative inquiry is a powerful design for professional learning that supports the notion of teacher leadership as it recognizes the role of teachers in on-going school improvement. It provides a systematic approach for teachers to explore issues and determine resolutions through shared inquiry, reflection, and dialogue. Rather than being merely consumers of research and the professional knowledge that accompanies it, teachers engaged in collaborative inquiry become producers and disseminators of knowledge...Through their collaborative work and learning by doing teachers have the potential to become more meaningfully involved in school- improvement and catalysts for change (Donohoo 2017).

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Professional Development and Educational Research Institute (PDERI)

Vision School leaders collaboratively design, innovate, and adapt systems which build communities to advance the success of ALL students

Mission

To design and deliver high quality professional learning opportunities to support and empower reflective school leaders by developing skills, knowledge, and dispositions to advance the success of ALL students.