This week, the Department and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) unveiled "Commit to Lead," a new online community that makes it easy for educators to share ideas for teacher leadership and collaborate to bring them to fruition (see blog post). This community enables educators everywhere to provide feedback and vote on each other's ideas, allowing the most talked about ideas to rise to the top so they can gain traction and prominence in the field. Commit to Lead is the online platform of "Teach to Lead," an initiative to promote teacher leadership convened by the Department and NBPTS.
Commit to Lead invites members to post quick ideas -- in under 300 words -- that advance teacher leadership in their school, district, or state to address a pressing problem and improve student outcomes. Reflecting the diversity of teacher leadership efforts, members are asked to select from a broad list of categories for their idea. Members can promote their ideas on social media, helping to spur the conversation beyond their own school buildings and districts, and can search existing ideas by keywords and locations.
Ideas posted during a beta launch of Commit to Lead include: inviting state education leaders to visit classrooms to speak directly with teachers and inviting educators to participate in feedback sessions and working groups at the state education agency; building a pipeline of new teacher leaders by creating partnerships between colleges of education and local K-12 schools and connecting pre-service teachers with established teacher leaders; and starting an online professional learning community for career and technical education educators to share resources and strategies for integrating literacy into their classes.
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