Equipping teachers to be advocates for teachers and students across Indiana.
The Teach Plus Indiana Teaching Policy Fellowship is a selective leadership opportunity available to high quality teachers across the state. We invite you to apply if you are a great teacher looking to deepen your knowledge of education policy and gain a voice in decisions that affect Indiana’s students and the teaching profession.
- Education policy as a lever for student success
- Community organizing
- Op-ed writing and speaking with media
- Advocacy - providing public testimony and speaking with elected officials
- Current and relevant issues in education policy
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Met with Indiana legislators and staff, spoken at hearings, and proposed policy solutions to the Indiana General Assembly.
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Helped successfully advance legislation to improve teacher preparation, inform teacher retention, and enable expanded opportunities for Indiana educators.
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Met with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office.
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Joined Secretaries of Education as part of the U.S. Department of Education’s official delegation to the International Summit on the Teaching Profession.
- Fellows publish policy briefs and author op-eds on key issues such as teacher retention, evaluation, compensation, teacher preparation programs, and student social justice. The op-ed have been published in Chalkbeat, the Huffington Post, the Indianapolis Business Journal, the Indianapolis Recorder, the Indianapolis Star, and Nuvo.