Leadership Cadres

Accomplished teacher leaders with the right combination of skills, knowledge, vision and opportunities can and do improve the quality of teaching, increase student learning and enhance the profession.  Acting on this conviction, CSTP builds knowledge, skills and professional identity among Seattle's leading teachers so they accept and act on their collective responsibility to improve the education system and their profession.

Seattle Teacher Leadership Cadre 

The Seattle Teacher Leadership Cadre (STL Cadre) will empower Seattle teacher leaders to develop and execute solutions-oriented strategies that address their professional challenges. Forty teacher leaders will be selected to participate in an Issue Development Cycle that includes knowledge and skill-building in advocacy, communications and policy. The STL Cadre will then create a network of their teacher colleagues who are committed to understand and act on critical policy issues, and will result in the participation of more than 10% of the Seattle teaching corps. 

This project specifically supports the Gates Foundation effort to empower Seattle Public Schools teachers to add their informed perspectives to dialogue regarding some of the district's complex workforce issues like increased collaboration time, more support for new teachers and seniority-based assignment as well as instructional challenges such as implementation of increased high school graduation requirements, national standards and creation of formative and summative assessments that will assure all students are able to achieve the high standards set for them.   

One of the cadres formed during the 2010-11 school year focused on Seattle's newly bargained evaluation system. Over the course of the year this group studied the topic, talked with administrators and colleagues, attending training and created recommendations that influenced the district's plan. To read more about this work, click here.

To read about the recommendations of the Teacher Evaluation Cadre, click here .

To read about what the Science Cadre discovered, click here.  

Watch this space for the work of other cadres....   Multi-age Classroom Staffing  and Compensation will report in Spring, 2012.