Lessons from the Innovators: Discussion Starters for Creating a Teacher-Powered School

October 2015 • Educator Resources

Interactive resources featuring sets of lessons learned, tips, and discussion questions for teacher teams to take up as a group.

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Teacher-Powered Schools: Generating Lasting Impact through Common Sense Innovation

September 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.

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Trusting Teachers with School Success

October 2012 • Core Publications

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.