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The goals of the Teacher Leadership concentration are to:
- Develop reflective practitioners who take action and reflect on that action to improve teaching and learning.
- Help teachers develop a personal philosophy and approach grounded in the HTH design principles.
- Train teachers to design project-based approaches to learning that connect students to the world beyond school and that offer access and challenge to all learners.
- Prepare teachers to address the challenges of unequal access to education for special or educationally disadvantaged populations of learners.
- Develop teachers’ capacities to critically examine educational theory/research and to design and conduct their own scholarly inquiries.
- Prepare teachers to be effective teacher leaders and program builders.