This episode focuses on pre-service teacher leadership, building upon the Community of Practice Teacher Identity Leadership Model (CoPTLM). Researchers investigated ten pre-service teachers' experiences in a social-emotional learning project, applying and extending the CoPTLM to create the Pre-Service Teacher Leader Identity in Well Communities of Practice Model (PTLI-WCoP). The PTLI-WCoP incorporates visual refinements, emphasizes social justice and equity, highlights self-awareness, and explicitly recognizes the link between teacher leadership and well-being. The study uses deductive qualitative analysis to analyze data from the project, including reflections and focus groups. Ultimately, the paper proposes the PTLI-WCoP as a theoretically-informed framework for supporting pre-service teacher leaders.

Cite the featured chapter:

Birch, H. J. S., Pike, B., Messenger, Y., Foster, R., Kim, G., Brown, C. (2025). A theoretical framework for pre-service teacher leadership informed by SEL capacity building, and culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy (pp. 478–512). In Smith, C., & Schellert, L (Eds), Research in Teacher Leadership in Canada: Transformative and Contextualized Agency. In Canadian research in teacher education: A polygraph series (Vol. 13). [eBook]. Canadian Association for Teacher Education/Canadian Society for the Study of Education. https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/48117

Podcast Theme Song - Inevitable, Spearfisher & Brianna Tam

Here is a version with the strings (Brianna Tam on cello): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCLjDUZaG7k