at is a teacher-leader? A teacher-leader is a high school math teacher who trains her colleagues in data analysis so they can identify trends in test scores. It’s a middle school social studies teacher who partners with Facing History and Ourselves to design an immersive schoolwide curriculum on civil rights. It’s a biology teacher with the vision and leadership skills to influence the success of the entire school from his classroom.
In the Teacher Education Program (TEP), we believe in the power of teacher-leaders to be agents of organizational and social change, transforming urban public schools and improving lives.
America’s urban public middle schools and high schools need teachers who know how to adapt a lesson plan to English language learners (ELL); who recognize the relationship between race, class, and power in the urban classroom; who incorporate research-backed methodologies into their teaching practice; and who are reflective and purposeful in their teaching, continually adjusting their practice to reach the most marginalized students. In TEP, you will learn how to become the kind of teacher who makes a real and lasting impact in the lives of your students.