Strengthen your teacher leadership on behalf of our nation's students. Shore up your work on equity. Build strong network of colleagues who support your work. Tell members of Congress what educators need. Fill your emotional gas tank for the next leg of your educator's journey.

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By Tom Rademacher

"Now I am officially job hunting. And I am not alone. Conventional wisdom suggests that while I seek employment, it's a poor time to talk about what's wrong with schools. Best to keep my head down and try to get a job, any job. But if you've ever heard the phrase, "Live your life with the confidence of a mediocre white man," know that I am that man. So I'm putting this out there: my personal ad for the next job I want in teaching."

By Angie Miller

"My colleagues ... meet with the U.S. Secretary of Education, publish books, and get inducted in the freakin’ National Teacher Hall of Fame. They juggle parenthood and school duties while training for marathons...

They are so much of what I just can’t be."

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By Allison Riddle

"I wouldn’t want to be the one to have to tell Amy Jo’s parents that the kind of opportunity that fueled their daughter’s dream may not exist much longer in America. Educators across the country paused in a collective jaw drop last month when President Trump’s proposed budget was released and it eliminated the 21^st Century Community Learning Center program."

By Topher Kandik

"Here is common sense from the classroom. Teachers need two things to improve as professionals: accountability to each other for growth and a voice in the conversation about how to grow. Gone should be the days in which superintendents or individual school administrators declare by fiat how all teachers should improve."