Are teacher leaders clustered at particular schools or types of schools?
One criticism of the CSMPs, especially in years past, was that they attracted and served a disproportionate number of teachers from suburban school systems. Our study findings do not support this criticism. As we have seen, most teacher leaders consider their own schools to be important venues for their leadership. And as noted earlier in the report, the 850 public schools where they teach appear to be representative of the state s schools overall in terms of community location and student ethnicity. Also, sites have different beliefs and strategies in terms of working with individuals and with teams. We wondered to what extent teacher leaders are lone CSMP leaders at their schools and to what extent they have CSMP colleagues “next door.” Generally, only one teacher leader from each school responded to the survey, but there are exceptions. • The majority of the 935 individual schools that teacher leaders say they work with most were served by only one teacher leader. However, up to fiv
