After our 2020 grant recipients' plans stalled due to the global pandemic, our organization faced an interesting situation. No Fellows pursing learning beyond the classroom or applying their experiences inside... read more →
Four years ago, the land behind Daphne High School lay fallow and Betsy Anderton's kids lay on the sofa looking at their phones. This combination did not sit well with... read more →
When thinking about teacher leaders, who comes to mind? Union reps? Data team leaders? Committee chairs? Leadership is about more than labels. There are countless individuals in classrooms around the... read more →
This morning, SxSWEdu kicked off virtually with a keynote by Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce Perry on the topic of how childhood experiences change the biology of our bodies and brains.... read more →
Happy International Women's Day! This year's theme is "Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world" and pay equity is certainly a large part of that equation.... read more →
In celebration of International Women's Day, we share the teaching of Neha Singhal (Montgomery County Public Schools, MD). In one of our more unique fellowships, Neha conducted mini-ethnographic research on... read more →
As Naima Hall tells it, she had a hard time finding her way in the world of work. For a while she did construction work, then bartended. Only after a few more... read more →
For two decades, Fund for Teachers has respected the power of teachers to determine their own learning and, subsequently that of their students. For each of those twenty years, that... read more →
Nataliya Braginsky is a high school teacher at Metropolitan Business Academy in New Haven, CT, where she teaches African American and Latinx History, Contemporary Law, and Journalism, and co-advises the... read more →
Fund for Teachers Fellows teach every subject and language, including American Sign Language (ASL). At FFT Fellow Mick Posner's school in West Hartford, CT, ASL is one of the world... read more →