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How We Can Teach for Opportunity

02/04/2021

Written by Chong-Hao Fu, CEO

How We Can Teach for Opportunity

This tumultuous year has brought into focus the important role you play in young people’s lives.

Amid a global pandemic, teachers like you have been a lifeline to essential resources and meals when needed, a counselor as students process change in the world around them, and a source of care as students adjust to new ways of learning. Concurrently, the different ways this crisis has affected communities are a reminder that teachers also play a critical role in remaking a flawed education system. When we see our teaching as a force for opportunity, we bring all students closer to the future they imagine for themselves. 

An Opportunity to Reorient Teaching

For too long, our sector has made it difficult to live up to this charge. When researchers identify new areas of practice, often there is pressure to create new initiatives without connecting them to the foundation that already exists. There have been moments when I’ve seen our own work at Leading Educators follow this pattern. That’s why our team is taking this moment to reimagine how our education system can build on the brilliance of teachers–not replace it–to better serve the students furthest from opportunity.

When students experience great teaching, they find joy in academic content that is rich, meaningful, and relevant. They feel engaged and seen, and they have the support to build trusting relationships with peers and teachers. Their teachers are grappling with how to connect their instruction to the complexity of the real world. As your partners, we hope our new action guide will be a source of new inspiration, renewed direction, and purposeful action in your personal and collective efforts.

Not a Prescription, An Invitation to Reflect

We also recognize that you are dealing with a lot. So, this guide is neither a prescription nor something brand new but rather an invitation to reflect on your strengths and prioritize areas for new learning in an integrated way. We see it as a collection of the wisdom that has existed in classrooms, communities, our program, and the field for generations.

What’s new is this structure for linking wisdom to beliefs, practices, and outcomes in a common vision for excellent teaching. You will also generate new wisdom as you take action in your school, so we hope you will share what you learn to make this work even better. 

As we recover from COVID-19, your students will be looking to you for resilience—what an awesome responsibility. Let us commit today to growing in the ways our students need. 

In community,

Chong-Hao Fu
CEO at Leading Educators

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