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3. Do teachers believe that teacher leadership or increased oppor-
tunities to lead in the school can promote school
revitalisation?
All teachers in the study shared the view that teacher leadership
or increased opportunities to lead in the school can promote
school revitalisation. Two teachers believed that teacher
leadership in terms of mentoring helps to increase their personal
and interpersonal capacities:
When I started teaching an unfamiliar subject previously, I was
the only one to explore and learn how to teach this subject.
However, under the good mentoring and modeling of my panel
head later, I had professional growth by learning together with
other teachers in the panel as a team, and then, I confirmed
my capacities. (Angela)

When I started to be a teacher, my panel head was a good
mentor. My personal capacity was enhanced through
co-teaching and professional dialogue. (Robert)

In addition to mentoring, three teachers agreed that teacher
leaders are ‘good leadership models’ to other teachers. This can
improve teacher culture through leadership modeling and mutual
influence:

I can learn how to lead from a good leader. In this school, Mr.
Chow and Mr. Chan, who are now a school principal and a
vice-principal respectively, were once my leaders in the school
organisational structure. They both planned and implemented
their work systematically. Besides, they also helped their
members to develop in terms of professional knowledge and
skills. I also learnt to care for my panel members from Mr. Lee,
who was once my panel chair in this school. (Mary)

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