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Send questions to: jessica.fletcher@prichardcommittee.org.
Prichard Committee Teacher Fellow Job Description, Responsibilities, and Commitments
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[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=”slideInLeft” animation_delay=”.3″ css=”.vc_custom_1620179668198{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”]Individually or as part of a team:
- Engage in an inquiry cycle.
- Test actions and ideas that emerge from individual or working group strategic plans.
- Gather qualitative and quantitative data that support the inquiry cycles, hypotheses, and strategic actions of your plan.
- Share learning through professional learning conferences and/or by publishing results and reflection and/or leading professional learning in a local, regional, or statewide context.
Collaboration with Prichard Committee
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[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=”slideInUp” animation_delay=”.5″ css=”.vc_custom_1620181981107{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”]- Meet with Prichard Committee staff and leadership to advise strategic plans, implementation, and cycles of continuous improvement as needed and determined by Prichard Committee staff.
- Share local, working group, and state-wide cohort learning with Prichard Committee staff and leadership as needed.
- Contribute to talking points, key messages, and communication strategy of Prichard Committee staff and leadership as needed.
Collective Community
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[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=”slideInRight” animation_delay=”.7″ css=”.vc_custom_1620181991661{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”]- Participate in cohort meetings as outlined.
- Share learning with other cohort members.
- Share learning with other working group members.
- Serve as a “critical friend” for colleagues.
- Contribute to creating the annual “Letter from Kentucky Teachers” by serving as a thought partner, a gatherer of data, writer, and/or editor as best indicated by your skills and interests.
- Commit to personal growth and reflection as a teacher leader, individually and as part of a team.
COMPENSATION
- $1,500/year
Requirements
- Currently employed, Kentucky public P-12 school teacher.
BENEFITS
- Peer-to-peer learning community
- Support in effecting change
- Skill development
- Systems-level experiences
- Credibility and recognition
- Publication opportunities
SCHEDULE
JUNE 2021
Orientation and alumni fellows meet and greet
JULY 2021
Four meetings that address a theory of change, design thinking, priority identification, and 2021 Letter from Kentucky Teachers content creation
AUGUST 2021
One meeting to compose the 2021 Letter, one workgroup meeting
SEPTEMBER 2021
Prichard Committee Annual Summit
OCTOBER – MAY 2022
Meet twice per month, once the whole group and once in smaller workgroups with quarterly intergenerational Prichard Committee team meetings, replacing one of those meetings.
JUNE 2022
Final meeting, hand-off to 2022-23 team[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][wyde_separator text_align=”center” el_width=”80%”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=”slideInLeft” animation_delay=”.5″ el_class=”apply”]We call on current and future Prichard Committee Teacher Fellows to seize the opportunity of this moment and advocate for the “change we wish to see” in our classrooms, schools, and communities. We acknowledge that teacher leadership is hard work. It takes time, commitment, and clear thinking to make a difference. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]