Teach to Lead

By Sarah Giddings
From the first day I stepped foot into my class in a small urban public high school, I realized one reality about teaching. Traditionally, the classroom can be one of the most isolating places to be for an educator. Although this is not my experience...

Editor’s Note: This is a poem by Pablo Pitcher DeProto, a teacher who attended the Inclusion, Equity and Opportunity Summit held in Chicago in December. He read this poem at the conclusion of the summit.
I Teach to Lead
Not a new, but an obvious breed

By Kimberly Walden
“We don’t just want educators to be part of the necessary change-we need them to lead it.” –John King, Secretary of Education
In early November, we did just this. The Teach to Lead Summit in Washington, D.C. allowed teams from across the country to gather for two days of planning, developing, and collaborating with team members on their projects to improve teacher preparation...

By John Clark
Just before the election, more than 100 educators descended upon the U.S. Department of Education – not to lobby for better policy, but to work in conjunction with the Department to raise the bars on enrollment and effectiveness from teacher preparation...