Teachers and administrators: who's who?

As schools move toward a shared decision-making model, it is increasingly more difficult to separate the roles of administrator and teacher. Educators involved in a four-year school reform project can no longer accept the traditional roles of teacher and administrator. These educators have realized that it is less important who makes the decisions and more important what the decisions are, how they are made, and what happens at implementation. They have discovered that the most important aspect of the school reform effort is that essential roles are assumed, not necessarily who assumes them. This article describes the new roles identified by educators active in a school reform process.