We are seeking a new cohort of Teacher-Powered Ambassadors for the 2025-26 school year—focused on changing the narrative around teaching and leading.

Join us to shape the Teacher-Powered movement and highlight ways your team is reimagining teaching roles:

  • Change the narrative. Share why you love teaching at a school where you deeply collaborate with colleagues, make decisions impacting student success, and innovate with learning models
  • Highlight practices and structures that empower all educators (teachers, admins, and paraprofessionals) at a time when morale is low in our educator community and few educators recommend the profession.
  • Support educators to drive change in their communities that give rise to democratic decision-making and student-centered learning environments.
  • Identify, develop, and share tools and strategies educators can use to influence district and state leaders to enact policy that supports the conditions needed for teacher-powered teams to thrive.

Ideal applicants are accomplished educators (classroom teachers, teachers in support roles, administrators, etc.) with experience and expertise in teacher-powered leadership models, team teaching models, and designing student-centered environments that meet the needs of underserved communities. The ambassador program is designed for those passionate about sharing power with educators, students, and families.

$300 monthly stipend provided. Applications open March 27; due May 1, 2025. 

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What are Teacher-Powered Ambassadors?

Teacher-Powered Ambassadors are site educators who exemplify accomplished teaching, innovative collaborative leadership, equitable student-centered learning, and intentional community engagement. These prominent representatives firmly believe in the need to move away from traditional decision-making power structures and the isolation of “one classroom, one teacher” models to improve student and educator outcomes. 

How does the TPS Ambassador program benefit teachers and students?

Teacher-Powered Schools aims to highlight the successes of TPS teams and inspire other teams who want to start new schools or transition to a teacher-powered model. This work exposes other educators to what is possible when we shift our mindsets and imagine schooling that does not replicate the industrial era model of education. Ultimately, our goal is to improve outcomes for students and educators.

Participating in the ambassador program is an excellent opportunity for educators and schools to share their transformative work at the national level. You are already leaders at your school and in your community; expand your leadership to a national network of like-minded educators. 

Roles and commitments:

(Based on the Stages of a Teacher-Powered School)

  • Forming: Support the movement by identifying teams who are already using TPS practices and structures and bringing them into the TPS network.
  • Storming: Promote Teacher-Powered ideas in your daily interactions with other teachers, district leaders, charter authorizers, education networks, policymakers, and media in your community. 
  • Norming: Share how your school uses autonomy and Teacher-Powered practices through presentations, social media posts, articles, and blog posts. 
  • Performing: Engage the TPS network to continually refine their own school’s shared leadership model and advocate for their team’s model.
  • Transforming: Develop your capacity as a Teacher-Powered leader. Explore other roles in the movement, including becoming a Teacher-Powered Coach.

Time commitments:

  • Attend and actively participate at the annual National Teacher-Powered Conference in Michigan on October 23-25, 2025, and in-person ambassador events (travel expenses paid)
  • Attend a 1-hour TPS Ambassador training up to two times a month 
  • Respond to emails and requests within a reasonable time (up to 72 hours)
  • Total expected commitment: 5-8 hours per month

As a modest incentive for year-long participation, each ambassador will be provided a stipend of $300 per month. Ambassadors will be paid once a quarter (February, May, August, and November), in the middle of the quarter.

Teacher-Powered Ambassadors may also be asked to host webinars, participate in local forums, or serve as keynote speakers or panelists at relevant conferences and events. These opportunities will be determined on an individual basis, and ambassadors will be appropriately compensated for their additional time, travel, and expenses.