Member Opportunities
Organizations and businesses have submitted the opportunities below for State Teachers of the Year and Finalists. Please reach out to the contact listed in an opportunity if you have any questions. Contact [email protected] if you have any questions about submitting an opportunity.
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An Opportunity to Publish Our Voice
Interested in being a published author and help facilitate new conversations between, parents, students and school faculty? Many of the NNSTOY community have been a part of many book projects over the past two years. The 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th grade books are in publication. We are still looking for a few to author a chapter, foreword and/or review for the 10th, 11th and 12th grade books. Please contact Tim Dove, 2012 OH STOY, at [email protected] with your interest or contacts of other great educators that would want more information ASAP.
Application Still Open: The We Are America Project – Support your Students in Writing and Publishing a Book Filled with Stories of Self
The We Are America Project
Are you an 8th - 12th grade English, history, civics, or humanities teacher?
Will you join us in creating a new student-led dialogue around identity?
The We Are America Project works with young people across the country to define what it means to be American — and to spark a new national conversation about American identity today led by the next generation.
The We Are America Project is led by Lowell High School teacher Jessica Lander and fourteen of her former students, who together published the books We Are America and We Are America Too in 2019. They went on to launch a national project working with teachers and students across the country. Across a school year the We Are America team works with a cohort of teachers, providing curriculum, support and monthly professional development, supporting teachers as they help their students tell their personal stories of American identity. At the end of the year students' stories are published in a book and featured on the project's website.
The We Are America Project is opening applications NOW for its 5th cohort of We Are America Teaching Fellows! (Application closes mid August).
Uppercase Expert Teacher Opportunity
Uppercase is conducting a national search for expert K-5 teachers to support early stage educators. This role will receive a stipend. Learn more here, and reach out to Beth Schmidt if interested at: [email protected]
The Advocate Educator’s Handbook – Book Review and Signed Copy Opportunity
Hello NNSTOY Members!
I am the co-author of the upcoming book, The Advocate Educator's Handbook: Creating Schools Where Transgender and Non-Binary Students Thrive, scheduled to be published globally January 16, 2024. Based on over 50 interviews, The Advocate Educator reflects the experience of educators, students, leaders, and other experts. It provides K-12 educators, school and district leaders, teacher preparation programs and other adult allies with a framework ( Educate-Affirm-Include-Disrupt) and resources to ensure they are fully equipped to serve transgender and non-binary students. This is the first book of its kind from the world’s largest education publisher– and we hope it will find its way to all the places it is needed! We are especially honored because the forward is written by the inimitable Dr. Peggy Brookins, CEO of the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards and former member of President Obama’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans.
We realize that not only would you need to vet the text (see below on how), but the authors! So... here is a little more about us!
My name is Vanessa Ford (she/her). I am an award-winning educator (PAEMST 2015) and author who happens to be the parent of a wonderful transgender child. My children’s book, Calvin, won the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Best Children’s or Middle-Grade Book and I was a classroom teacher for 14 years in DC Public Schools and have continued to work in the field. My family’s advocacy has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, New York Magazine and NPR. I was a founding member of The Human Rights Campaign’s Parents for Transgender Equality Council and sat for 2 years on the board of the National Center for Transgender Equality. I now live with my husband and two children outside of Boston. You can learn more about me (and my family) here: www.jrandvanessaford.com .
Rebecca Kling (she/her) is my amazing co-author. Rebecca is a nationally-known transgender activist and advocate for equal rights. She is the co-owner of the social impact consulting firm Better World Collaborative and previously served as the Education Programming Director at the National Center for Transgender Equality. Rebecca is also currently on the leadership team of Camp Aranu’tiq, a camp for transgender and gender variant youth, and she taught middle and high school theater for years. Her advocacy has been featured in the Washington Post, the Guardian, and elsewhere.
We are eager to get advance copies into the hands of game-changing educators like yourselves for feedback/blurbs/reviews/thoughts! You are at the forefront of the work serving students and your endorsement (or questions) would help us make it the best possible resource! Advance copies could be emailed the week of August 7th. If you would be open to reviewing our text, please email me at [email protected] or [email protected].
Thank you so much in advance for this, and for all you do for students!
Vanessa and Rebecca
How We Teach Human Rights
Dear colleagues,
I hope this message finds you thriving this summer. I'm writing today to request your assistance in what I think is an extremely worthwhile undertaking (of course I do--I'm the one undertaking it). What I need won't take long, so please read on.
This year I'm seeking to create profiles on each and every state regarding how they approach Holocaust, genocide, and human rights education, and there are two important ways that you could assist me with that. One would be to help me collect the data for the state in which you live/teach. If that is of interest to you, please reach out to me at [email protected].
The other way that you might assist me would simply be to take the short survey linked below, and to share it as widely as possible. If everyone on this list takes the survey I'd have a robust sample to work with, and if everyone on this list sent it to their colleagues, exponentially more so. The survey covers a lot of ground fast and can be completed in four to seven minutes. Your responses are, of course, invaluable to me.
In exchange for your time I'm more than willing to share my data, or even present it to/for you in the future. Furthermore, if you are presenting somewhere and would share the survey, that would be great. Don't hesitate to reach out to me if you'd like it as a QR code or a PDF. Below is the URL.
Thank you in advance for your support of my research. I am truly grateful and hope to hear from you soon. Have a terrific summer!
Link to survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/genocideeducation
Sincerely,
Mark
Dr. Mark Gudgel
The College of Saint Mary
Omaha, Nebraska
Teach Plus Nevada Policy Fellowship Application
You are invited to apply for the Teach Plus Nevada Policy Fellowship, a highly selective leadership opportunity for outstanding Nevada teachers. As a policy fellow, teacher leaders deepen their knowledge of education policy and gain a voice in decisions that affect their students and the teaching profession, at the district, state, and national level.
Teach Plus – California Policy Fellowship Application
You are invited to apply for the Teach Plus California Policy Fellowship, a highly selective leadership opportunity for outstanding California teachers looking to deepen your knowledge of education policy and gain a voice in decisions that affect your students and the teaching profession.
Who Taught You – Celebrating You and Your Fellow Educators
Who Taught You, launched in response to the growing educator shortage and the pervasive negative narrative surrounding the education profession, will shift that narrative, and inspire action to elevate the profession that makes all others possible.
Through an impact campaign and docuseries, we will create change by retaining current educators, attracting new ones, bridging the gap in understanding between those who work in education and those who don’t, and sparking purposeful conversations that create meaningful action.
As a State Teacher of the Year or Finalist, you play a critical role in inspiring the next generation to go into the field, and in keeping those already in it, motivated and inspired.
As we build a groundswell of support for educators, you can help by sharing a story about a teacher who has positively impacted your life, honoring a favorite teacher in the Who Taught You Honor Roll, and sharing about the Who Taught You Impact Hub in your communities. We appreciate you and look forward to hearing your educator stories!
Teach Plus – Arkansas Policy Fellowship
Teach Plus Arkansas invites teachers to apply for the Arkansas Teaching Policy Fellowship. This is a highly selective paid leadership opportunity for outstanding Arkansas teachers looking to deepen their knowledge of education policy and strengthen their voice in decisions that affect students and the teaching profession. Application Deadline: May 31, 2023
Teach Plus – Colorado Policy Fellowship
You are invited to apply for the Teach Plus Colorado Policy Fellowship, a highly selective leadership opportunity for outstanding teachers in the Centennial State looking to deepen their knowledge of education policy and gain a voice in decisions that directly affect students and the teaching profession. Application Deadline: May 8, 2023
Teach Plus – Massachusetts Policy Fellowship
You are invited to apply for the Teach Plus Massachusetts Policy Fellowship, a highly selective leadership opportunity for outstanding Massachusetts teachers looking to deepen your knowledge of education policy and gain a voice in decisions that affect your students and the teaching profession.
Teach Plus – Mississippi Policy Fellowship
A highly selective leadership opportunity for outstanding Mississippi teachers looking to deepen their knowledge of education policy and gain a voice in decisions that affect students and the teaching profession.
Teach Plus – Indiana Policy Fellowship
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.
Teach Plus – Pennsylvania Policy Fellowship
You are invited to apply for the Teach Plus Pennsylvania Policy Fellowship, a highly selective leadership opportunity for outstanding Pennsylvania teachers and early childhood educators looking to deepen your knowledge of education policy and gain a voice in decisions that affect your students and the teaching profession.
Teach Plus – California Emergent Bilingual Change Agent Network
Is there a problem in your school in supporting English learners or dual language learners? Would you like to take leadership and work with your peer teachers to solve that problem? Would you like to positively impact student learning, while receiving development as an educational leader, individual coaching support in tackling your school’s challenge, and connection to a network of other dynamic teacher leaders, all without having to leave the classroom? Through the Change Agent program, Teach Plus recruits, selects, trains, and supports outstanding Teacher Leaders to lead a school-based effort to address a problem of practice that affects emergent bilingual students in their school.
Teach Plus Texas Policy Fellowship
You are invited to apply for the Teach Plus Texas Policy Fellowship, a highly selective leadership opportunity for outstanding Texas teachers looking to deepen their knowledge of education policy and gain a voice in decisions that affect their students and the teaching profession.
Michigan Teacher Leadership Collaborative – Teach Plus and The Education Trust-Midwest
Teach Plus Illinois Affinity Group Facilitators
- Illinois Affinity Group Facilitators seek to cultivate authentic, inclusive, intersectional spaces, shaped by and for educators of Color
- Facilitators create affirming and supportive spaces, rooted in an asset-based understanding of diversity, 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 support their peers by forming an affinity group in their context during the 2023-2024 school year
- Facilitators lead a local Advocacy Action Team (recruited from the affinity group members) which will identify barriers to retention of educators of Color, and propose and advocate for solutions
- Facilitators receive training to conceptualize and design their affinity group, leadership coaching to support the implementation of their affinity group throughout the year, and are part of a professional learning community to build skills, share ideas, and work through common problems
- Facilitators receive a $2,500 stipend for their commitment
Teach Plus Illinois – Chicago Change Agent
Teach Plus Illinois Early Childhood Educator Policy Fellowship
- A highly selective leadership opportunity for outstanding Illinois Early Childhood Educators looking to deepen their knowledge of education policy and gain a voice in decisions that affect students and the Early Childhood Education world.
- Fellows expand their influence without leaving the classroom.
- Monthly Fellows Sessions (virtual and in-person)
- Fellows receive training through expert-led modules and direct engagement with key stakeholders. No prior policy experience required.
- Fellows receive a stipend for their commitment.
Teach Plus Illinois Policy Fellowship
- A highly selective leadership opportunity for outstanding Illinois teachers looking to deepen their knowledge of education policy and gain a voice in decisions that affect students and the teaching profession.
- Fellows expand their influence without leaving the classroom, starting in June 2023 and concluding in June 2024.
- Fellows receive training through expert-led modules and direct engagement with key stakeholders.
- No prior policy experience required.
- Monthly Fellows Sessions (most virtually, with two in-person weekends)
- Fellows receive a $1,600 stipend for their commitment.
Host a free local screening of Oscar-nominated documentary, Fire of Love
Together with National Geographic Films, Picture Motion is helping educators, scientists, and more bring the Oscar-nominated documentary, Fire of Love, from director Sara Dosa, to communities around the country through free local screenings, with the goal of further inspiring students and youth to explore STEM education and careers.
Fire of Love shares the extraordinary story Katia and Maurice Krafft, who loved two things — each other and volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple roamed the planet, chasing eruptions and documenting their discoveries. Ultimately, they lost their lives in a 1991 volcanic explosion, leaving a legacy that forever enriched our knowledge of the natural world. Director Sara Dosa and the filmmaking team fashion a lyrical celebration of the intrepid scientists’ spirit of adventure, drawing from the Kraffts’ spectacular archive. FIRE OF LOVE tells a story of primordial creation and destruction, following two bold explorers as they venture into the unknown, all for the sake of love.
As a part of our impact campaign, we will be creating a discussion guide and setting up free grassroots screenings of the film around the country, with the hopes of bringing the film to students, educators, scientists, and others who are passionate and/or curious about the STEM fields, and for those who this film will further inspire and educate.
If you are interested in hosting a free screening of Fire of Love, or would like to learn more, check out our screening toolkit here, or contact [email protected] for more information.
College Football Playoff Foundation Extra Yards for Teachers Summit – LIVE from Los Angeles Jan. 7th 2023
We wanted to share with you our 2023 Extra Yard for Teachers Summit promotional kit to share with your teacher network. This year this FREE event will take place Saturday, Jan. 7th, 2023 at the LA Convention Center from 1-5 PM (reception to follow 5-6:30). We have partnered again with Get Your Teach On and teachers will receive 4 hours of PD credit. Please find details, sign up and kit linked below. I have also attached a “Know Before You Go” one-sheeter.
Extra Yard for Teachers Summit
- The College Football Playoff (CFP) Foundation hosts the Extra Yard for Teachers Summit as a way to inspire and empower teachers each year in the host city. Past speakers and presenters have included Miguel Cardona, U.S. Secretary of Education, Condoleezza Rice, former US Secretary of State; Charles Best, founder of DonorsChoose.org; Desmond Howard, College Football ESPN Analyst, Leon Bridges and Lauren Daigle, Grammy Award winning artists, Eddie B, former teacher turned comedian, and many more. The Summit includes sessions to provide professional development, entertain, and celebrate attendees.
- The day offers virtual and in person high energy Professional Development presented by Get Your Teach On (Hope and Wade King Bios). The event also offers all in attendance the chance to win giveaways from partners, sponsors, and CFP champ weekend events.
- Past Summits: 2018 Summit and 2022 Summit
- Sign Up Linked Here (can use the code ATT25 to get FREE virtual access)
- Digital Promotion Kit Linked Here
Thank you for helping us spread the word and we look forward to seeing you in January! Please contact Carly Campbell at [email protected] if you have any questions.
Teacher of the Year Mathematics Educators
Looking to interview Teachers of the Year (TOYs) who are mathematics teachers able to talk about the decline of the NAEP scores and what can be done to improve the quality of teaching and learning specifically for Black students. The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) is the network of Black newspapers. We are currently interviewing teachers who work with predominantly Black students in minority communities. Please reach out to me at [email protected] or (202)288-1442 if interested.