Galileo Institute for Teacher Leadership
Pawley Hall
456 Pioneer Drive
Rochester,
MI
48309-4482
(location map)
galileo@oakland.edu

Values
We will forge a vision of effective teaching that results in powerful learning for all students by:
- Increasing teachers’ knowledge and skills about the self as change agent
- Deepening teachers’ knowledge about learning and learning contexts
- Developing teachers’ skills for effective assessment of and for learning
- Promoting a sense of moral obligation and voice of advocacy
- Renewing teachers’ passionate beliefs about the power of their influence
- Supporting the development of exemplary practice
- Fostering persistent disquiet with the status quo
- Searching for research-based improvements in curriculum, instruction and assessment
- Creating interdependence among educators with defined purposes aimed at shared results
- Developing skills for dealing with conflict and resistance
- Promoting systemic approaches to solving problems and building capacity
- Creating and supporting educator study groups
- Teaching dialogue and discussion skills for effective application of data analysis
- Developing practitioners’ ability to integrate action research into ongoing work
- Promoting the use of technology for documenting and analyzing practices
- An inter-organizational governing board
- Inter-organizational networking events (conferences and seminar events)
- An inter-organizational network of mentoring and coaching
- Creating online forums for dialogue and sharing of best practices