Teacher leaders, in general, find this restrictive attitude toward teacher initiative to be distasteful. Teacher leaders prefer to cooperate with others in order to create learning options for their students, themselves, and others. However, administrators, by habit, seem averse to teamwork that disregards rank-based authority. Teacher leaders do not like this traditional attitude, but pragmatically choose to ignore the impasse. Finally, teacher leaders often are dismayed by the behavior of colleagues who don't seem to want the best for students.
Leaders are committed to student welfare.
In fact, leadership traits such as initiative, an instinct for teamwork, and commitment actually can create stress for teacher leaders in their relationships with colleagues. Despite frustration, teacher leaders manage conflict, but not by becoming confrontational. On the contrary, they prefer persuasion. Their choice of strategies seems to demonstrate nontraditional ideas about whether leaders are important and how change occurs. Leadership is a role played by one person in a group.