PRESENTED AT THE SUMMER LEADERSHI P

CONFERENCE 201 4

SPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR
I NNOVATI VE LEADERSHI P DEVELOPMENT
AND CENTER FOR ETHI CS AND
ENTREPRENEURSHI P

GARDNER- WEBB UNI VERSI TY
JULY 29, 201 4

DR. C. STEVEN BI NGHAM
ASSOCI ATE PROFESSOR OF EDUCATI ON




Teacherpreneurship:
The Leader-Teacher Role & Building a Team of Imagineurs
TEACHER: one that teaches;
especially : one whose
occupation is to instruct

ENTREPRENEUR: one who
organizes, manages, and
assumes the risks of a business
or enterprise
Definitions
Traditional
Model



Everyone has
his or her own
separate role
Adapted from Dave Orpha Prezi (2011)
Dont jump to conclusions, but did you know

Fifty percent of the
people employed in
public education do
not work with
students.
In the traditional model of education

TEACHERS ARE
PROFESSIONALS, NOT
HIRED HELP

RENE MOORE
What if we build a new model?
She combines and blends
professional roles.

She teaches in the morning then
takes over from the morning-
principal after lunch.



What is a
teacherpreneur?
What is a
teacherpreneur?
He is policy maker
working Mondays
through
Wednesdays with
his students,
turning them over
to his partner-
teacher so that on
Thursdays and
Fridays he can be at
the state capitol
drafting educational
policy.



SHE IS
TEACHING
STUDENTS
All the while and part of the day
Teachers must become facilitators of
learning who empower students to learn,
thereby requiring that we re-shape
schools as organizations. This means
more than changing the way schools
operate; it also means changing the
social system and norms that exist
among the members of the school
community (p.22).

Teacher Leadership: Considerations for Policy and Practice
from Teacher Leader Model Standards

So how are we doing?





The Leader-Teacher Role
Building a Team of
Imagineurs
! It is no use walking
anywhere to preach
unless our walking is our
preaching.
St. Francis of Assisi
! Can anyone really lead
a team who does not
also teach that team?
! Imagineurs bring to the
table not just a desire to
build, but a desire to
create.
Jerry McLaughlin
! What do we know
about teams and
creativity?
Teacherpreneurship: The Second Act
Lets Take a
Quiz!
! Using the Web 2.0 resource
provided by your facilitator,
please respond true or false to
the statements on the following
slides.
1. Teams are more creative
than individuals.
2. If you want to enhance creative
teamwork, get rid of rules,
guidelines, and norms.
3. Striving for quality is better
than striving for quantity.
4. Active brainstorming is necessary
to generate ideas.
5. Brainstorming teams should work
closely together and tear down
boundaries.
6. Team members should first
brainstorm as a group to get the
creative juices flowing, then work
alone.
7. People who are pro-social (team-
oriented) are more creative than
those who are pro-self (individually
minded or just downright selfish!)
8. Calming, relaxing, peaceful
deactivating moods lead to more
creativity than activating moods.
What is
true.
As important as
teams are, we need
individuals who
assume
responsibility for
creating better
programs and
products.
More importantly,
we need leaders who
teach their teams
how to be creative.
But how?
Leaders of creative teams
Have a language that allows them to talk about
their leadership style.


Leaders of creative teams
Engage in reciprocal communication.
Leaders of creative teams
Are on a personal development mission.


Leaders of creative teams
Offer developmental feedback.
Leaders of creative teams
Display interactional justice.
Leaders of creative teams
Are trustworthy.


Leaders of creative teams
Have an ambidextrous style.


Leaders of creative teams
Are transformational.


Resources, web
edcrunch.org/2013/05/14/teacherpreneur-
communities/

blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/.../what-the-heck-is-a-
teacherpreneur/

teachingquality.org/teacherpreneurs

opportunityculture.org/reach/school-models/

Resources, print
Thompson, L. (2013). Creative conspiracy: The
new rules of breakthrough collaboration.
Boston: Harvard Business Review Press


McLaughlin, J. (2013). The mothers of invention.