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TACKLING THE TEACHER SHORTAGE

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How are issues of teacher recruitment, development, and retention impacting the profession? Educators across the country are exploring the implications of teacher shortages during a roundtable blogging discussion in the CTQ Collaboratory.

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GO FAR TOGETHER

Exploring collective leadership

What is the impact of collective leadership in shaping school culture and improving student learning? Educators across the country are sharing their experiences with collective leadership during a CTQ roundtable blogging discussion.

CHOOSING YES

The path to teacher leadership

After a year of growth and leadership opportunities, Florida educator Glenna Sigmon reflects on what teacher leadership is and how she views her role as a teacher leader.

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TRANSFORMING PD

Adopting a new approach to personalized, professional learning

Watch to find out how, with the support of CTQ, Volusia County teachers and administrators are transforming the collaboration and leadership structures in their district to increase teacher capacity and deepen student learning.

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FUELING TEACHER LEADERSHIP

Actions for administrators to transform teaching and learning

The concept of teacher leadership continues to be narrowly defined, and often by anyone but the teachers themselves. Barnett Berry recommends actions administrators can take to create a more equitable and excellent public education system for all students.

CULTIVATE. INCUBATE. SCALE.

Our approach to advancing a high-quality public education system is informed by evidence on how teachers matter for student learning and how their expertise can spread effectively to their colleagues and administrators, as well as policymakers, parents, and the public writ large.

We believe strongly in cultivating teachers’ active leadership, not merely their voice or engagement. Teacher leadership does not come at the expense of administrators and policy leaders.

But it ensures that those who teach students and work most closely with them and their parents can craft innovative solutions to complex problems of teaching and learning, now and in the future.

Through our thought leadership, CTQ also works to articulate the promise of systemic change to help all stakeholders embrace the necessity of reforms that are comprehensive and wide-reaching (beyond the confines of an individual school or school district).

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TEACHERS ARE LEADING. JOIN THE MOVEMENT.

When Shanna Peeples, the 2015 National Teacher of the Year, turned to the CTQ Collaboratory for help polishing her speech to state legislators, teacherpreneur Cheryl Redfield (AZ) was there to offer one-on-one coaching and make Shanna’s message shine.

“SPEARING THE FEAR” OF TEACHER LEADERSHIP
Leadership doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Learn how teacherpreneur Jessica Cuthbertson (CO) sparked the creation of other hybrid roles in her district.

Hybrid roles
Alysia Krafel founded the teacher-powered Chrysalis Charter School in Redding, CA. Now this teacher-powered pioneer connects with other educators in the CTQ Collaboratory to help them reach their own teacher-powered dreams.

Teacher-Powered Resources
Jozette Martinez (CO), Renee Moore (MS), and José Vilson (NY) teamed up to design a Social Justice learning strand for the Teacher Leadership Initiative.

READ JOZETTE’S CRUSDADE FOR EQUITY
Florida teachers Jaraux Washington and Julie Hiltz created a social media campaign reaching millions.

#TeachingIs
Val Brown (FL) uses the CTQ Collaboratory to take on challenging educational topics without fear.

VAL’S CTQ BLOG
Kip Hottman, Ali Wright, and a CTQ-KY team of fifteen teacher leaders and one administrator took on a collaborative challenge: How can we rethink teacher time to improve professional learning?

REIMAGINING TEACHER TIME