Professional Learning
Develop Leadership Within Writing Project Sites
Summary:
For site directors wanting to develop local site leadership, resources in this collection offer visions of what NWP leadership looks like, directions for how to get out of the way to make sure there is work for teacher-leaders to do, and tools for strategic planning and site growth.
This post is part of the NWP Social Practices: Lead collection.
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