How Teachers Become Leaders: Learning from Practice and Research (The Series on School Reform) - Softcover

This book gets right into the practice of teacher leadership itself. A splendid and essential read for all teachers everywhere." -Andy Hargreaves "In this engaging new book, Lieberman and Friedrich show us how teachers learn to be leaders. Intentionally capitalizing on the synergy of research and experience, the authors pose important new questions about what leadership means in today's challenging educational climate, including fresh insights about community, identity, and productive conflict." -Marilyn Cochran-Smith, coauthor of Inquiry as Stance "Lieberman and Friedrich give us the much-needed answers to promoting powerful schools via the wisdom of teachers leading from the classroom to the schoolhouse to the statehouse: an insightful, practical, and most useful book." -Carl Glickman, president, Institute for Schools, Education, and Democracy

Ann Lieberman was a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and is now at Stanford University. Linda D. Friedrich is the Director of Research and Evaluation at the National Writing Project.