Growing Self and Growing Others

Teacher leaders take responsibility for their own professional growth and the professional growth of others.

For teacher leaders, continuous professional growth is critical to increasing student performance and a responsibility of all teaching professionals. Teacher leaders recognize, value, and promote professional growth as an essential element in meeting individual, school, and system goals. They promote professional learning as a collective responsibility with shared accountability for peer success and student achievement. Operating from a growth mindset, teacher leaders believe that their peers are capable of continuous and significant growth in their instructional practices. Teacher leaders are facilitators of professional growth and have as much vested in the growth of their colleagues as they do in their own growth.

(Killion, et. al., 2016)