Dear Friends of Leading
Educators:
Last week was
national "Teacher Appreciation Week." At Leading Educators, we have the opportunity to see the amazing things teacher
leaders are doing every week to develop and support their
colleagues and their students. We deeply appreciate this hard work and the
critical, exponential impact it is having on student learning. As you'll see
throughout this list of our latest accomplishments and developments, Leading
Educators has been working hard to ensure that more teacher leaders have the
opportunities and skills to make the impact they seek:
- During
Teacher Appreciation Week, our Chief Program Officer, Chong-Hao Fu, and I
wrote about teacher leadership as a force to
improve schools for all students; how three types of
teacher leadership roles are busting cages to improve student learning;
the untold story of New Orleans'
big education export; a DC superintendent's
perspective on teacher leadership; and thebridges that
are key to effective teacher-leader roles.
- Leading
Educators has released our 2014 Annual Report, which features some of our
Fellows' impact on teachers they lead, principals they support, and
students they serve. Check it out on our website here:www.leadingeducators.org/impact
- Our
latest white paper, Building Bridges: Connecting Teacher
Leadership and Student Success, focuses on
roles that make teacher leadership successful.
- In the last two months, we did strategic consulting work
with Hiawatha Academies in Minneapolis and provided training for Teach For
America alumni in Connecticut. We are also finalizing contracts with the
New York City Department of Education, the Michigan Department of
Education, and DC Public Schools.
- The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation is
now supporting our work as we take on the important tasks of developing
teacher leaders and their teams in high-needs schools.
- The Carnegie Corporation of New York is supporting our
development and launch of online classes that we will be offering to
teacher leaders across the country for the first time this fall. These
classes will focus on coaching others, leading teams, student culture,
performance management, and Common Core State Standards in Literacy and
Math.
- Leading Educators continues to be at the forefront of
the national discussion of the teacher leadership movement. In the last
few months, Chong-Hao and I have presented at conferences hosted by the
Council of Chief State School Officers, National Board of Professional
Teaching Standards' Teaching and Learning, Iowa State Administrators,
Teach For America, Educators 4 Excellence, National Network of State
Teachers of the Year, Teach to Lead, ECET2 Kentucky, Massachusetts and New
York City Departments of Education, Denver Public Schools, and Urban
School Human Capital Academy.
Leading
Educators has worked with over 700 teacher leaders so far this year. I am
honored to be a part of this growing movement. I hope you will share any
feedback or questions you have for me or our team, and that you'll join me in
celebrating teachers for all that they do year-round!
Best
regards,
Jonas
Chartock
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From a post dated 5/14/2015
