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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

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Leading Edge Educator Fellowship - Teach Plus - Leadership Opportunity

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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…