Leadership has long been recognized for having a significant impact on teacher learning. While research on development programs for mathematics teachers has suggested a change in focus from teachers being passive participants to becoming active learners in practice-based development programs, little is said about how this change in focus affects the principals’ role as leaders of teachers’…
Ever since Ball and Cohen (1999) called for a practice-based theory of teacher education the focus on practice-based pedagogy in research on mathematics teacher education has increased (e.g., Charalambous & Delaney, 2020). The need for a focus on practice-based teacher education is argued by McDonald et al. (2013), who described it as “a major shift—a turn away from a predominant focus on…