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Texas Early Childhood Educator Group Network

Cultivating authentic, inclusive, intersectional spaces, shaped by and for educators.

Early Childhood Educators from across Texas:

You are invited to apply for the Teach Plus Texas Early Childhood Educator Group Network, a highly selective leadership opportunity for outstanding Texas teachers looking to influence ECE in the state of Texas by facilitating spaces that help to attract, recruit, and retain an effective and diverse teaching workforce to ECE in the state of Texas.

How Does It Work?

Teach Plus recruits and selects ECE Group Facilitators from across the Lone Star State who will develop, launch, and facilitate ECE groups in their contexts. You will become part of a larger movement of teacher leadership and help mobilize your peers around top issues impacting equity for students and the teaching profession in Texas.

What will you do as an ECE Group Facilitator?

You receive training and support from Teach Plus in: group facilitation, education policy as a lever for student success, community organizing, and more.
Group Facilitators create affirming and supportive spaces, which support educators in navigating and improving their school environments and are connected to a larger network to build alliances and address systemic issues.
Facilitators will receive support in the form of a monthly leadership training and leadership coaching session
Facilitators fulfill additional leadership responsibilities, including affinity group participant recruitment, agenda creation and monthly meeting facilitation
Facilitators receive a $2,500 stipend for their commitment from July 2026 – December 2027.
Facilitators receive $500 implementation funds to facilitate building their affinity group

Facilitator Qualifications:

Are a current early childhood educator with at least two full years of teaching experience by January 2026.
Have a track record of success teaching students in child care centers, traditional public, or charter schools in Texas.
Feel called to create a space for educators to come together.
Have a passion for sharing the diverse perspectives and experiences of students and teachers with policymakers.

Our Teach Plus Texas teachers have:

Met with Texas legislators and staff, spoken at hearings, and proposed policy solutions to the Texas Education Agency.
Joined Secretaries of Education as part of the U.S. Department of Education’s official delegation to the International Summit on the Teaching Profession.
Been published in the Texas Tribune, Education Week, the Houston Chronicle, the Dallas Morning News, and the Austin-American Statesman, and others, and have been interviewed on television and radio.