Transformational Teacher Leadership in Rural Schools

In this paper, the author explores the rural school context and its teacher leaders as a third transformational leadership prototype adding to Leithwood and Jantzi’s (1999) two transformational leadership prototypes of females and new teachers in the elementary school. The author helps illum...

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Main Author: Kirk David Anderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Rural Education Association 2008-11-01
Series:The Rural Educator
Online Access:https://www.jhseonline.com/index.php/ruraled/article/view/462
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spelling doaj-ce5dc015c120482ea26e3b82199ccfcd2020-11-25T04:04:34ZengNational Rural Education AssociationThe Rural Educator0273-446X2643-96622008-11-0129310.35608/ruraled.v29i3.462Transformational Teacher Leadership in Rural SchoolsKirk David Anderson0University of New Brunswick In this paper, the author explores the rural school context and its teacher leaders as a third transformational leadership prototype adding to Leithwood and Jantzi’s (1999) two transformational leadership prototypes of females and new teachers in the elementary school. The author helps illuminate new understanding of rural schools and their highly interactive decision making styles where teacher leaders are a source of creativity development of unique forms of leadership. If researchers focus on teachers as leaders in rural schools, specifically those who operate outside of traditional leadership roles, there exists a promising area of new understanding for educational leadership as transformational teacher leadership.  https://www.jhseonline.com/index.php/ruraled/article/view/462
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description In this paper, the author explores the rural school context and its teacher leaders as a third transformational leadership prototype adding to Leithwood and Jantzi’s (1999) two transformational leadership prototypes of females and new teachers in the elementary school. The author helps illuminate new understanding of rural schools and their highly interactive decision making styles where teacher leaders are a source of creativity development of unique forms of leadership. If researchers focus on teachers as leaders in rural schools, specifically those who operate outside of traditional leadership roles, there exists a promising area of new understanding for educational leadership as transformational teacher leadership.  
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