ISTL

An international team with members from 10 countries formed in 2018 during a conference hosted by Guangxi Normal University in Guilin, China, to plan a cross-cultural study, called the International Study of Teacher Leadership (ISTL) (www.mru.ca/istl), that is focused on the primary research question, How is teacher leadership conceptualized and enacted and what are the implications for educational stakeholders? The team’s secondary research questions include: How do school-based educators conceptualize teacher leadership? How do systems leaders conceptualize teacher leadership? What are the values, beliefs, and assumption underpinning teacher leadership discourses? How prepared are classroom teachers to serve as teacher leaders?

The ISTL team members collaborated to design a five-part research plan as presented in the following table.