Cultivating hope through teacher leadership in Portugal

This chapter draws on a three-year national programme of research funded by the National Foundation for Science and Technology in Portugal which investigated teachers’ views about their professionalism. The study included an intervention in which teachers were invited to participate in a programme designed to enable them to exercise leadership in order to improve the conditions for teaching and learning in their schools and classrooms. The intervention was preceded by a national survey conducted through interviews and focus groups. The teacher leadership support programme, conducted in five schools, enabled the research team to find out more about how teachers construct their professionalism and to develop strategies to enhance their leadership.CIEC - Centro de Investigação em Estudos da Criança, IE, UMinho (UI 317 da FCT), PortugalFundos Nacionais através da FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) e cofinanciado pelo Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER) através do COMPETE 2020 – Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI) no âmbito do CIEC (Centro de Investigação em Estudos da Criança, da Universidade do Minho) com a referência POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007562