Collaborative leadership involves teaching as a team sport with mixed-age classrooms of 75-100 students taught by 3-4 teachers allowing each student to progress at an individual pace. This flexibility allows for multiple pedagogies and perspectives from teachers with complementary expertise. Teachers can rotate in and out without disruption and peer support reduces burnout. The model has been successfully used at the Khan Lab School.

1. Collaborative Leadership
By Vipul Redey
Head-School Enablement, Khan Academy
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2. “Teaching as a Team Sport”
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4. What?
• Mixed-age classrooms
• Class of 75-100 students with 3-4
teachers
• Each student moving at an
individual pace
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5. Why?
The Flexibility
• Multiple pedagogies used
• Multiple perspectives
• Complementary areas of teaching expertise
• Teachers can rotate in and out – No
“substitute teacher” disruption
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6. Why?
The human element
• Multiple teacher-student combinations
• Less likely to result in teacher burn-out:
Peer support, mentoring and idea exchange
• The teacher is no longer a lone warrior
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7. Proof?
Used in the Khan Lab School
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8. Thank You
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