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TeachPlusPA has been a member of Linktree for 4 years and joined in February 2022. Resources TeachPlusPA has populated their site with include: • Teach Plus PA congratulates Leon Smith on being named 2025 Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year • Sept. 27: PAGN The Kickback BIPOC Teacher Mixer • PA Literacy Coalition Newsletter Sign-Up • Sep. 26: Decoding PA’s Budget Registration • Donate • Apply for the Teach Plus PA Policy Fellowship • TeachPlusPA Home Page • Media and Articles • Teach Plus Pennsylvania Nomination Form • PASW Lunch and Learn Webinar • Sign on to a Coalition Letter urging the Philadelphia City Council to increase local funding for the School District of Philadelphia • Tell Your Elected Officials to Fully Fund Student Teacher Stipends! | Teach Plus • Every Child Deserves to Learn How to Read! | TAKE ACTION: Send a letter to your legislators asking them to support SB 700 & HB 684! • Urge Your State Senators to Co-Sponsor to the Structured Literacy Memo! | Teach Plus • Complete the Phones in Focus Survey: a national study by Dr. Angela Duckworth • PHEAA: One of the Nation's Leading Student Aid Organizations • The Forgotten Population: Addressing the Neglect of Black Male Students in Schools • 2026-2027 Teach Plus Philadelphia Affinity Group Network Facilitator Application • Join a PAGN Affinity Group Facilitator Info Session • Leading Edge Educator Fellowship - Teach Plus - Leadership Opportunity • Join the Pennsylvania Teacher Network • Philadelphia Affinity Group Network - Facilitator App • Join the Philadelphia Affinity Group Network • You are invited to join a meeting: PA Literacy Coalition Monthly Member Meeting. • Continuing the March toward Constitutional Funding — Teach Plus Applauds Governor Shapiro’s Proposed Investments in Adequacy Funding and Student Teacher Stipends - Teach Plus - Leadership Opportunity • Post-Summit Reflection: Turning Momentum into Action • Teach Plus PA Recaps and Responds to Governor Shapiro's Budget Proposal • Pennsylvania Department of Education’s recent settlement to rescind their Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Education (CR-SE) Competencies • Combating the childhood literacy crisis • Philadelphia reading scores drop after first year of new literacy curriculum - Chalkbeat • NCTE National Intellectual Freedom Award - National Council of Teachers of English • Voice: May 2025 • Why are fewer people becoming certified teachers in PA? • Executive Director Laura Boyce recently moderated a powerful roundtable on the teacher shortage crisis, hosted by Teach Plus PA, #PANeedsTeachers, and Point Park University. • Pennsylvania Literacy Coalition rallies for evidence-based solutions to state literacy crisis • Scranton teacher and Teach Plus Policy Fellow, Suzanne Shaffer Commentary: Preschool is vital to help all students succeed • www.wsj.com article featuring Teach Plus Philadelphia Affinity Group Member Trent Petty • Pennsylvania Literacy Coalition calls for $100M to boost student reading in state budget • We interviewed 30 Black public school teachers in Philadelphia to understand why so many are leaving the profession • Laura Boyce's Guest Commentary on The Philadelphia Citizen: Teach Reading The Right Way • Sto-Rox Future Educators Learn How to Make an Impact — Sto-Rox School District • There's a surprising reason why many schools don't have a single Black teacher • Your View from a Bethlehem teacher: Let’s not erase the lived experiences of students of color from our classrooms • My Students Overturned a Book Ban, You Can Too • Teachers Say a New Parents' Bill of Rights Doesn't Solve Schools' Problems • Pennsylvania must ‘grow’ its own teachers to help ease educator shortage [column] • Pa. has an unprecedented opportunity to fix public school funding. We can't miss it | Opinion - Pennsylvania Capital-Star • How Much Does School Funding Matter? Depends Who You Ask – DV Journal • As a White Teacher, I Must Develop Racial Competency • Ms. Ebonie Lamb’s Story - Pittsburgh Educator - TodayPGH • Her students were babies during COVID lockdowns. Here’s what she’s seeing. • These Teachers' Book List Was Going to Be Restricted. Their Students Fought Back • Teachers can be life-changing. Help us solve Pa.'s teacher shortage | Opinion - Pennsylvania Capital-Star • They Can't Be Us, If They Do Not See Us • We are losing Black teachers when we need them most • After Uvalde, Teachers Need to Help Kids Process Big Feelings in Small, Daily Conversations • I'm a Black male educator. Pa. schools need more people who look like me • First Person: Teacher prep programs can do better • State's school funding negligence penalizes kids • Their View: Childhood education and the death of an earthworm | Times Leader • Pa.'s youngest students need quality teachers, invest in workforce now • Early childhood education is life-changing. We need to support those who teach it | Opinion - Pennsylvania Capital-Star • Teacher shortages could harm a generation of students [column] • Undocumented students deserve to go to college. We need to provide the path | Opinion - Pennsylvania Capital-Star • Your View by Allentown teacher: How early childhood education changes lives • Poverty costs schools: The poorer the district, the more limited the school budget. What does that mean for kids? • Black History Must Include the Heroic Black Soldiers of WW II • Here’s Why I Teach Black History All Year Long • Teach Plus PA Policy Fellows on Building an Educator Workforce That Mirrors and Affirms All…