The Woodrow Wilson Leadership Institutes have definite systemic implications. There are two components at this time. Teachers commit to planning together and taking a leadership role in their districts. Districts commit to providing time for team planning. Districts commit to time and venues for presentation by team members to other teachers in the district.
Districts promise a leadership role for the teams in district standards development.
Closer relationships between the Woodrow Wilson Leadership Program for Teachers and the various districts represented as well as lessons learned through interactions during the first institute and its follow-up will provide for more dramatic system implications in subsequent years. The correlation of teacher and student learning will be a focus of the relationship. Large districts will send teams to the institutes who return the learning to the rest of their teachers. Several institutions of higher education interested in environmental science have agreed to sponsor teams.