In recent years, a stronger spotlight has been cast on the importance of teachers in accelerating student academic achievement and dramatically improving education across America. With nearly three million public school teachers, America is fortunate to have many highly committed, highly effective instructors in our schools who understand better than anyone the challenges and rewards of public education and the types of improvement strategies that yield the greatest results for their students. Teacher and parents also consistently indicate that when in need of information or ideas to help their students it is other teachers whom they most trust and are likely to turn.
Teachers perform many vital leadership activities at the local level, but, too often, they lack opportunities to contribute to the development of education policy on a broader scale. The U.S. Department of Education designed the Teaching Ambassador Fellowship to enable outstanding teachers to learn about and bring their expertise to the national dialogue about education and in turn to facilitate the learning and input of other educators into education policy.
Mission: The Teaching Ambassador Fellowship is designed to improve education for students by involving teachers in national education policy. The Fellowship thus seeks to:
Create a community of teacher leaders who share expertise and collaborate with policymakers and leaders in the federal government on national education issues.
Involve teachers in developing policies that affect the classroom.
Expand teacher leadership at the national, state, and local levels.
Program Overview
