2009-2010 Teachers Network Leadership Institute – MetLife Fellowships
MetLife Fellowships of $1000 each are available to NYC public school teachers who are interested in taking an active role in influencing local, state, and national education policy by becoming a MetLife Fellow in the Teachers Network Leadership Institute (TNLI) for the 2009-10 school year. You can apply online, or use our fillable-form pdf file or download the same application as a MS Word document.and e-mail snail mail the completed application. For a flyer to post in your school, click here (pdf file).
DEADLINE: JUNE 26, 2009 |
In 1989, former
President Bush and then Governor Clinton held the first education summit. Not
one teacher was invited. In 1990, Teachers Network brought together 50 teacher leaders from across the country to draft the Teachers Vision of the Future of Education—A Challenge to the Nation.
Teachers
Network Leadership Institute (TNLI) was established to improve student achievement
by bringing the teachers' voice to education policymaking.
Through action research,
TNLI teachers seek to bring their experience and expertise to current debates
on education policy.
Teachers Network Leadership
Institute (TNLI) is comprised of hundreds of teachers from 14
nationwide affiliates. TNLI MetLife Fellows--teachers with full-time classroom
teaching responsibilities--research
policy issues and develop recommendations, document their work in papers
and publications, and disseminate their work locally and nationally. Fellows’
action research studies address the direct link between policymaking and
its effects on student achievement in their classrooms.
Made
possible by a generous grant from
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