Moving Beyond the Discounts, Gifts, and Thank Yous Since 1984, our country has celebrated Teacher Appreciation Week for five short days to recognize how teachers shape our world. Do a quick Google search, and you will see dozens of pages broadcasting limited-time deals for teachers and gift ideas—I happily received my fair share of cards, … Continued
Editor’s Note: Over the next year, we’ll be talking to program alumni, our partners, community members, and education leaders about opportunity in action. Our hope is to highlight a range of ideas and perspectives that build towards a comprehensive vision for educational opportunity. This interview has been condensed and edited. FACING HARD TRUTHS Nearly a … Continued
Elaboration is Expanding Upon Ideas to Make Connections [Students] see some of those same [math concepts] happening in their music classes. So, they are able to relate what I’m doing in my class to other classes, and it clicks so much more,” says Ms. Tatiyana Webb, a math teacher at Soulsville Charter School in Shelby … Continued
How Districts Can Overcome Opportunity Gaps Once and For All The screen read: “a2 + b2 = c2” Twenty seventh-grade students, seated in rows in this Tulsa classroom, were silently working from an old textbook. Their teacher, illuminated by an overhead projector, looked on. For about thirty minutes, I heard only the soft scratching of … Continued
Lessons Learned From Tulsa Public Schools It is often said that school systems get the results they are designed to produce. Education leaders know that they need to enable key shifts in teaching and learning to make opportunity the reality for every student, but it can be challenging to know where to start. Our partners … Continued
Coherence Accelerates Improvement in Literacy In a recent article in The Learning Professional, Leading Educators CEO Chong-Hao Fu makes the case for why access to effective professional learning is critical to teachers being effective at creating excellent educational experiences for every young person. Chong-Hao explains that just as doctors aren’t expected to invent a new … Continued
Honoring Women in the Teaching Profession This International Women’s Day, we honor the generations of women educators who have changed the world by cultivating self-discovery and growth inside and beyond the classroom. Countless women activists—such as Mary McLeod Bethune, Malala Yousafzai, and Sylvia Mendez—have advocated for the universal human right to education. By championing the … Continued
Like many of our peers in education (Chiefs for Change, Houston ISD, Boston Public Schools, Oklahoma City Public Schools), at least five former U.S. Secretaries of Education, and millions of Americans, we were stunned by the Trump administration’s decision this week to eliminate protections for 800,000 DREAMers. As a nationally-focused organization that works in a … Continued
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
Leading Educators CEO Jonas Chartock and School Leaders Network founder and CEO Elizabeth Neale recently co-authored an article on the importance of teacher leaders in supporting principals and growing teacher satisfaction and retention. Check out “Helping Education Leaders Grow” in its entirety below or here. MetLife released a Survey of the American Teacher, a work that always seems … Continued
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