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In this article, I address how teachers in urban and suburban U.S. schools with multicultural and multilingual student populations demonstrate leadership both within their classrooms and schools as well as outside of them. Based on research with U.S. public school teachers in two projects (Nieto What keeps teachers going? New York: Teachers College Press 2003, Why we teach. New York: Teachers College Press 2005), various roles that teachers have in initiating, putting into practice, and sustaining change in schools are described. Implications for policymakers and administrators are then briefly explored.
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Article based on keynote address given at the Third International Summit for Leadership in Education, Boston, MA, November 2006.
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Nieto, S. The color of innovative and sustainable leadership: Learning from teacher leaders. J Educ Change 8, 299–309 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-007-9044-8
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