How Can Community Organizations Support Urban Transformative Teacher Leadership? Lessons From Three Successful Alliances

Abstract

Teachers who organize for educational equity and social justice generally do so through teacher-led professional networks. Community organizations (COs) that seek to support such teacher leaders can face challenges in working with their organic and often horizontally organized networks. This article examines three case studies of COs that developed successful alliances with urban teacher leaders in teacher-led networks and identifies specific strategies COs used to support the teachers.

Key words:

• community partnerships
• teacher leadership
• urban education