- The role of a teacher as a leader. The impact you have as a teacher in the multi-facets of the school are not seen immediately. They are seeds you sow and move on. As a teacher, you are a leader in your classroom delivering lessons, building relationships, collaborating with your colleagues, administration, parents, community and all stakeholders. Your impact is far reaching. As a lead teacher, you set direction from the center of your classroom creating a ripple effect into other classrooms, across divisions, across the school and into the community. Consciously or unconsciously you are building a shared vision to impact student learning and students success. Your values of integrity, empowering students and student wellbeing, the reasons you became a teacher are active every day. As you contribute to the development of a shared vision, foster the acceptance of group goals and model high performance expectations. All of this has students at the core. Your impact on people via the relationships you build is powerful. Your job is working and serving people, collaborating with your colleagues, building lesson plans, sharing promising practices, listening to conversations, webinars, reading professional development resources to build the vision, shine light on the sole purpose of the impact you have on student learning. As you facilitate the development of a collaborative classroom. Your impact ripples throughout developing the organization. You are the role model for your peers. When you lead, share professional learning and resources, encourage promising practices and mentor new teachers. As a leader, you work to build a collaborative learning community, model effective partnership and build strategies to encourage parent involvement. By your actions, you model a transformative style of leadership based on trust. The core value of being a teacher is highlighted in the instructional program. A lead teacher advocates for at risk learners, utilizes in school resources, personnel to support student learning. From the classroom to the whole school plans program and events for marginalized at risk students that are personal, precise and guided by evidence based practice. Your skills as a leader to demonstrate effective teaching and learning, access, analyze and interpret data to inform instructions, manage time effectively and support moral formation of students are impressed upon by you as the ripple effect continues. You impact student learning and move on. You create opportunities for student success and contribute towards high expectations for students benefiting from a high quality education. I conclude with the words of Henry Adams, "A teacher affects eternity, one can never tell where their influence stops."