Overview: In this issue of Special Edition, we focus on our many roles as teacher-leaders who nurture students’ development, their academic growth and their creativity. To improve and enrich the work that we do with students, we also:
• Read, adapt and apply research strategies in our classrooms.
• Participate in graduate studies—in such areas as literacy development and learning and the content areas.
• Collaborate with colleagues in a variety of ways—in study groups, on planning teams, as coaching partners and in adapting curricula.

The teacher-authors in this issue reflect our understanding that in teaching, one size does not fit all. Rather, our work as teachers always requires of us particular focus and individual attention—to students and families, to schools and communities. In this 50th-anniversary year of Brown v. Board of
Education of Topeka, Kansas, we know that much work remains and we dedicate ourselves to it. You are invited to join us throughout the year at Teacher Center conferences, seminars and our networks’ institutes to learn even more about professional growth possibilities.

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