Teach Plus Illinois Policy Fellowship
Training teachers as advocates to ensure Illinois teachers and students thrive
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Application Deadline: April 7, 2025

Training teachers as advocates to ensure Illinois teachers and students thrive
Teach Plus trains teachers in understanding education policy advocacy as a lever for student success, including community organizing, writing op-eds, speaking to the media, providing public testimony, meeting with legislators, and more. Teach Plus works to create and connect teachers to opportunities to lead in meaningful ways at the policy level.
Teach Plus recruits and selects Teach Plus Illinois Policy Fellows from across the state to participate in the cohort experience. You will become part of a larger movement of teacher leadership and help mobilize your peers around top issues impacting the teaching profession in Illinois. Teach Plus works with key stakeholders and policymakers to join the conversation.
Teach Plus seeks a cohort of teachers who reflect the cultural, linguistic, and geographic diversity of our state. Apply if you:
The written application asks you to complete general demographic information, short responses and provide contact information for two professional references (letters of reference are not required.) Applications are due April 7th, 2025.
You will be notified by Tuesday, April 15th, 2025 if you have been invited to participate in an interview. Interviews will take place virtually between April 21 and May 4, 2025.
You will be notified if you have been selected to join the Illinois Policy Fellowship. If accepted, you will commit to attending the virtual kick-off convenings scheduled for:
You should also plan to attend regular monthly cohort sessions on Tuesday evenings, the in-person kickoff August 2-3 and our in-person fall retreat November 8-9.
IMPORTANT: if you cannot attend the two in-person sessions in August and November, you will not be eligible for selection to this year’s Fellowship.
Questions? Please contact Policy Director Bill Curtin
Start your application below to join the Teach Plus Illinois Policy Fellowship
Nominate a teacher who wants to achieve change in their schools and in the broader education system.
We invite you to view a Virtual Information Session to hear more from Teach Plus Illinois staff and Policy Fellowship alums about all of our programs, and to join us for an info and Q&A session specific to the Policy Fellowship to learn more, engage in conversation, and ask questions.
Get to know the Teach Plus Illinois Policy Fellowship teachers.