McREL President and CEO Bryan Goodwin is one of three education leaders discussing the importance of teacher leadership on ASCD’s latest Whole Child Podcast.
Goodwin and fellow panelists Fred Ende, assistant director of curriculum and instructional services for Putnam Northern Westchester BOCES (New York), and Maddie Fennell, an elementary school teacher in Omaha Public Schools and former teaching ambassador fellow at the U.S. Department of Education, talk about the benefits for both administrators and teachers of empowering teacher leaders, how to create a structure for teacher leadership that works, and how such a structure benefits the whole child.