Galileo Teacher Leaders Institute
Invitation to Apply - 2019-2012 Cadre
The Galileo Leadership Consortium
was launched in 1997 with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and now is sustained by the Consortium’s organizations, foundation, local businesses, and industries. The Consortium provides a teacher leadership development program for educational organizations in Oakland, Wayne, and Macomb counties. The Board, organization’s liaisons, and the facilitation team support the Consortium’s activities.
The focus of the Consortium is to improve and sustain the achievement of all students by:
· building teacher and principal leadership capacity,
· promoting, supporting and celebrating teacher leaders;
· forging a vision of effective teaching,
· creating professional learning communities,
· engaging in data driven decision-making, and fostering a commitment to develop institutional
capacity for change.
GALILEO TEACHER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
The Academy is a two-year seminar series designed to develop teacher leaders. The curriculum addresses educational and leadership issues and themes. Instructional strategies are based on principles of collaboration, inquiry, problem-solving, reflection, informational systems and technology. Teacher leaders learn from national experts, case studies, dialogues, field investigations, team building, study groups, readings, reflective journaling, and action research.
Vision
Mission
The Galileo Leadership Consortium will:
· develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions of teacher leaders which include servant leadership, collaboration, facilitation, best practices, action research, and systems thinking;
· support and extend the influence of Galileo Leaders in order to create and sustain teacher leadership throughout the organization;
· envision new ways of working and learning by establishing relationships among K-12 organizations, community colleges, universities, and the Galileo Institute for Teacher Leadership at Oakland University; and
· maintain and expand the influence of Galileo Alumni.