Connecting Teacher Leadership and Professional Learning

How can we best connect teacher leadership to professional learning? What do schools sometimes get wrong – despite their best intentions – and how can we help more schools get it right? With the publication of Igniting the Learning Engine: How School Systems Accelerate Teacher Effectiveness and Student Growth Through ‘Connected Professional Learning’, the nonprofit organization … Continued

Redirecting the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Empowering Educators to Expand Opportunity Leading Educators has a simple, yet clear vision: equitable schools for every student. In an educational environment where economically-disadvantaged students and students of color trail their white and higher-income peers by two or three grade levels, Leading Educators partners with schools to strengthen classroom experiences through a national network of … Continued

A Classroom Without a Woman?

  Every child deserves a high quality education. We believe that through investments in teacher leadership based on rigorous content, anti-bias education and a strong culture of learning, we can create equitable schools that yield students who are college and career ready. Central to preparing young people for successful lives and careers is the role … Continued

Video: Conversation with activist Brittany Packnett, Part 1

Brittany Packnett (@MsPackyetti) is an educator, civil rights activist, protester, a member of President of the United States of America’s task force on policing, and an invaluable voice on race and equity within our culture and our classrooms. Recently, Brittany joined the national Leading Educators Institute to discuss important topics related to race, equity, and … Continued

Video: Conversation with activist Brittany Packnett, Part 2

Brittany Packnett (@MsPackyetti) is an educator, activist, protester, a member of President of the United States of America’s task force on policing and an invaluable voice on race and equity within our culture and our classrooms. This is the second part of a conversation between Brittany Packnett and Jonas Chartock, CEO of Leading Educators. Recently, Brittany joined … Continued