CLASSROOM TEACHERS ENACTING POSITIVE SOLUTIONS

Classroom Teachers Enacting Positive Solutions

2019-20 CTEPS (pronounced STEPS) Team

Focused - Sustained - Professional

I am so grateful for the vision and work of the CTEPS team. I feel as though I've been given this great professional gift. I am ready to embrace my role as a teacher-leader, and this process will certainly help me develop and grow in that role. - Amy Kellen, NBCT from Henderson County Schools

Focused
CTEPS teachers use design thinking to focus on a challenge in their school, district, or state.
By working with others outside of their local environment, teachers seek a wider view and create action plans based on this richer perspective that often sheds new light on old problems back home.

Sustained
Because CTEPS teachers dream, learn, and struggle together for a full academic year, they cultivate deep relationships with their colleagues and form complex understandings of their challenges. This professional learning community will serve them long beyond the formal end of the program.

Professional
Engaging in action research based on the principles of Improvement Science, CTEPS teachers research, design, implement, analyze, reﬂect on, and publish their results. CTEPS stretches across 16 webinars and 2 face-to-face meetings, and teachers receive compensation for their time and effort.

Personalized project-based learning for teachers

Teachers who engage in personalized learning that springs from their daily work, generate solutions to common challenges that are grounded in sound research and practices. Teachers understand the context of student learning and can use that expertise to re-imagine student's opportunities to learn. Teachers see substantial improvement in student learning and create products that will enable others to duplicate their results. Explore their work and our program here.

Engaging in teacher leadership

CTEPS equips teachers with the skills and knowledge necessary to emerge with the confidence to take on teacher leadership at many levels. Based on the KY Teacher Leadership Framework, teachers engage with self-assessment tools, as well as content-driven webinars that challenge them to grow as coaches, facilitators, community builders, writers, and collaborators.

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