Teaching Statement: As an instructional leader, I would use the Scholarship-Practitioner-Leader model (SPL) to help students to become scholars who put leadership into practice using scholarly and non-biased learning support from reliable journals. A leader using the SPL model is a scholar (lifelong learner) who gives to the work environment as a practitioner and promotes positive change as a leader (University of Phoenix, 2016). As an instructional leader, I will use the help of teacher leaders and other instructional leaders to stay current on scholarly research using journal resources to find new learning programs and theories, which my students may use to put in place at their schools or educational organizations to promote academic achievement and positive advancement of the learning institution.