A reference sponsored by the acclaimed Center for Teacher Quality outlines methods for promoting a new standard of teacher leadership that also has a capacity to invoke powerful changes outside the classroom, sharing inspirational stories about exemplary teachers while sharing supplementary photo, video and audio content. Original We need a bold new brand of teacher leadership that will create opportunities for teachers to practice, share, and grow their knowledge and expertise. This book is about "teacherpreneurs" highly accomplished classroom teachers who blur the lines of distinction between those who teach in schools and those who lead them. About the Center for Teaching Quality x About the Authors xi Acknowledgments xv Prologue: Why We Wrote This Book xvii CHAPTER 1: Advocating for a Bold Brand of Teacher Leadership 1 CHAPTER 2: Defining the Teacherpreneur 16 CHAPTER 3: Preparing for Teacherpreneurism 36 CHAPTER 4: Making Teachers—and Teaching—Visible 60 CHAPTER 5: Transcending Teaching’s Past 82 CHAPTER 6: Cultivating Teacherpreneurs for Teacher-Led Schools 104 CHAPTER 7: Meeting Resistance—and Crossing Borders 122 CHAPTER 8: Creating What We Have Imagined 140 CHAPTER 9: Finnish(ing) Lessons for Teacherpreneurism 165 CHAPTER 10: Foreseeing 2030 179 Appendixes 195 Endnotes 218 Index 229