Why would teachers want to start a Teacher-Run School?
Founders of TEACHER-RUN SCHOOLs often desire to maximize their professional talents and to create, through their service, high-performing learning communities. They want the personal satisfaction of owning and operating a business that allows them to maximize their teaching (and in some cases management) experience. Rather than working for an administrator, they want to work for themselves. They also seek the changes in culture (evident in the behaviors of teachers, parents, and students) that can result when a teachers are delegated the authority to manage a TEACHER-RUN SCHOOL. TEACHER-RUN SCHOOLs help to professionalize teaching. Traditional ideas for “school improvement” and “education reform” assume that teachers must remain employees and that an administrator, such as a principal, must be in charge. But it is clearly conceivable for teachers to work with partners in groups they collectively own; serving a client; in an arrangement that gives them both the autonomy associated with
