A group of children are presenting their project on how to address anemia in their community. One child in the center of the group is speaking into a microphone she is holding. A child to the left of her is holding up drawings to show the audience. The child next to that one is looking at the speaker. There are colorful bulletin boards in the background. A group of children are presenting their project on how to address anemia in their community. One child in the center of the group is speaking into a microphone she is holding. A child to the left of her is holding up drawings to show the audience. The child next to that one is looking at the speaker. There are colorful bulletin boards in the background.

Teaching As Collective Leadership

 

Teaching As Collective Leadership (TACL) is an actionable and locally customizable framework for teachers, teacher coaches, and program designers to grow students as leaders of a better future for themselves, for their communities, and for all of us. The framework is based on insights emerging from collective studies of transformational classrooms around the world.

Orientation

Teaching As Collective Leadership is a call for a different approach to education, one whose purpose puts growing student leadership at its core.

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The TACL framework has “PURPOSE,” “LENSES,” “STRATEGIES,” and “OUTCOMES” at the top. Under PURPOSE, a circle says, “STUDENTS AS LEADERS OF A BETTER FUTURE - FOR THEMSELVES, THEIR COMMUNITIES, AND ALL OF US.” LENSES has pieces “students as leaders,” “teachers as learners,” “community as power,” and “our work as systemic.” STRATEGIES has parts “LOVE & CONNECT,” “LISTEN & ENVISION,” “LEARN & DESIGN,” “FACILITATE & CHALLENGE,” and “REFLECT & GROW.” OUTCOMES section has silhouettes of children jumping with words

 

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Three educators wearing business casual clothes are seated indoors facing each other in a triangle formation. One wearing glasses on the farthest right is speaking, while the other two are smiling and laughing.

Learning about learning

Transformational growth and development require that we unlearn much of what we have learned about learning.

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Un cycle tourne dans le sens contraire des aiguilles d'une montre autour du cadre de l'enseignement en tant que leadership collectif, en pointillés avec des flèches. Les mentions de droite à gauche indiquent, en haut, « expériences » et « réflexion », et de gauche à droite en bas, « connaissances » et « pratique ».

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Over the past six years, more than 4,500 students, teachers, teacher coaches, community members, program designers, CEOs, researchers, and policymakers from across and beyond our network of 60+ partner organizations have contributed to these crowd-sourced studies of transformational classrooms. The Teaching As Collective Leadership eBook gathers these reflections and explores deeply the Why, What, and How of this framework.

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