Arizona TeacherSolutions® Team
Embrace your role as a teacher leader alongside other Arizona educators seeking to expand their impact.
Expand your impact and embrace your teacher leadership
Take your drive to expand your impact and embrace your teacher leadership. The Arizona TeacherSolutions Team supports educators in advancing their leadership, rooted in the National Education Association's Teacher Leadership Competencies and Arizona Teacher Leader Professional Standards. Through this two-year commitment, team members explore leadership strategies, adult learning theory, and the tenets of positive psychology and emotional resilience, while also building the framework and developing sessions for our annual Teacher Leadership Institute.
Arizona TeacherSolutions Team members work together to identify and solve problems of practice that impact systems in their classroom or community. Collectively, they are reimagining what leading from their current role looks like and how stepping into leadership roles can increase access to quality teachers for all Arizona students.
The Arizona K12 Center launched the Arizona TeacherSolutions® Team in 2011 in partnership with the Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ) and 20 solutions-focused teacher leaders from across the state. Since then, we have worked to further develop the team's curriculum to best support Arizona teacher leaders in the midst of a changing education landscape.
Arizona TeacherSolutions Team members work together to identify and solve problems of practice that impact systems in their classroom or community. Collectively, they are reimagining what leading from their current role looks like and how stepping into leadership roles can increase access to quality teachers for all Arizona students.
The Arizona K12 Center launched the Arizona TeacherSolutions® Team in 2011 in partnership with the Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ) and 20 solutions-focused teacher leaders from across the state. Since then, we have worked to further develop the team's curriculum to best support Arizona teacher leaders in the midst of a changing education landscape.
Arizona TeacherSolutions Team Value Statements:
Curiosity
I have a commitment to curiosity and continuous improvement in one's own classroom, school, and community
Impact
I understand the impact of teacher leadership as a way to create change in the classroom and school communities.
Collaboration
I have a personal desire to collaborate, participate, and learn alongside other teacher leaders from across Arizona.
Arizona TeacherSolutions Team members commit to:
- Participate in monthly meetings (most online; some in-person at the Arizona K12 Center; accommodations provided if traveling more than 50 miles to/from the Arizona K12 Center).
- Participate in a virtual book study.
- Complete two inquiry projects focused on a problem of practice or your growth as a leader.
- Seek out opportunities to share new learning with your school or district staff.
- Attend, plan, and facilitate breakout sessions at two consecutive Teacher Leadership Institutes.
- Engage and collaborate with fellow team members as a way to grow and develop your leadership capacity.
- Engage in social media spaces around content related to team responsibilities.
- Respond to emails and ongoing communication in a timely manner.
- Meet deadlines for projects and information requests.
- Represent the mission of Arizona K12 Center.
To be a leader means to positively impact other people's capacity to thrive.
Nataly Kogan, author and speaker at the 18th Annual Teacher Leadership Institute, 2023
