Teacher Leaders
Teaching Profession
Educators Who Ran for Office Share Their Lessons Learned (Video)
Watch a discussion between three educators who ran for their state legislatures about their experiences on the campaign trail.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Haves and Have-Nots: We Must Prioritize Outside Professional Development for ALL Teachers
Many outside PD opportunities still separate the "haves" from the "have-nots" and uphold systemic oppression.
Teaching Profession
Jahana Hayes on Her Path From Classroom to Congress (Video)
In an exclusive interview with Education Week, the nationally recognized teacher who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives discusses why she decided to run and her priorities as a new lawmaker.
Teaching Profession
One More Teacher Wins State Seat, Bringing Count to 43
One more teacher was elected to state legislature in a closely contested race.
Teaching Profession
Teachers Who Ran for Office: Fired-Up Political Newcomers or Incumbents?
Many of the teachers who ran for state legislative seats were challenging incumbents. Others were incumbents themselves.
Teaching Profession
Teachers Running for Office: A Roundup of Who Won and Lost
Forty-two teachers were elected to state legislature on Nov. 6. Here's everything you need to know about them—and their peers who lost.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
The Shape of Schools
This ability to all see each other, to all stand together as partners, is what makes a school. After all, what is a school but the people who work and learn there?
School & District Management
After 500 Posts, Retired Teacher Nancy Flanagan Sunsets Her Ed Week Blog
After nine years of faithful blogging for Education Week Teacher, retired educator Nancy Flanagan has written her 500th and final post for the website.
States
Opinion
13 Things I Learned While Blogging for Education Week
This is the 500th blog I've written as the Teacher in a Strange Land, for Education Week Teacher. As it turns out, it's also my final blog for EdWeek. Here are 13 things I have learned in the past nine years of observing and writing about Ed World.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Want to Improve Schools? Look to Teacher Leaders
It is possible to harness the expertise of our best teachers and leverage them to help make school a better place.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Whose Opinions Matter in Education World?
It's hard to identify education heroes and sheroes. And perhaps even harder to pinpoint just whose work is slanted, paid-for and dishonest.
Teaching Profession
North Carolina Teachers Say Conditions in Schools Are 'Unacceptable'
North Carolina teachers had press conferences in seven locations across the state to criticize education spending levels.
Teaching Profession
Jahana Hayes, 2016 National Teacher of Year, Among Educators Who Won Primaries
The 2016 National Teacher of the Year Jahana Hayes took the Democratic nomination for an open congressional seat, and Wisconsin Schools Superintendent Tony Evers won the Democratic nomination for governor in that state.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Book Review: What School Could Be
Dintersmith's take on what's going on in American schools seems to evolve throughout his narrative, built on daily experience through the lens of a non-educator-- going into school after school, meeting teachers, 'thought leaders' and honchos, then filtering their pitches, schticks and Big Ideas through his own Midwestern sensibilities. Is this real? he asks. Could this work everywhere? Should it?