by dwalker | Jul 9, 2016 | Blog
Increasingly educational reformers recognize the critical role teachers play in increasing outcomes for students, and in making schools places where individual and collective growth is valued. Traditionally teachers have left the classroom to assume an instructional...
by rodaniel | Nov 2, 2015 | Blog
“Ten of the top 14 fastest growing industries in this country require significant know-how in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Yet America continues to underperform in these fields.” Alia Milgrom-Elcott, 100kin10.org This fact, paired with the chronic...
by admin | Oct 28, 2015 | Blog
Katrina Boone is in her seventh year as a high school English teacher, her second at Shelby County (KY) High School, where she is also in her second year as a teacher leader as an America Achieves Fellow. CTL asked Ms. Boone to talk about her role as a hybrid teacher...
by admin | Oct 28, 2015 | Blog
CTL Educational Programs and Leadership Specialist Mary Rudd calls it, “The beginning of a long conversation.” She’s describing the work CTL is doing in partnership with the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE), convening higher education faculty from around the...
by admin | Oct 28, 2015 | Blog
Leading from the Front of the Classroom: A Roadmap to Teacher Leadership that Works, The Aspen Institute deftly divides the elements essential for teacher leadership into form – roles supported to ensure they can actually be fulfilled – and function – initiatives...