School District Collaboration
The Kenan Fellows Program Teacher Leadership offers a Teacher Leader Cluster model (TLC) for school districts to form a leadership team that addresses a district’s needs.
Educators selected to participate in a TLC are Kenan Fellows who complete their fellowships as part of a statewide cohort. A collaborative funding model involving the school system, industry donors, or community foundations supports these TLCs.
TLCs support scalable and sustainable outcomes:
- Inspire and train teacher peers, creating a ripple effect across the school system
- Lead within the district as a leadership and advocacy team, in partnership with the administration
- Enhance relationships between schools, businesses, parents, and community members
Kenan Fellows in TLCs:
- Develop and implement the district-wide plan or project
- Create resources that integrate their new industry knowledge and understanding of local businesses into the classroom
- Create resources that correlate workplace skills with STEM-curricular standards
- Share the created project and resources district-wide
Impact of District TLCs
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Five teachers helped realize the vision of increasing socioeconomic mobility and promoting community advancement. They designed and launched a CMS Computer Science Student Pathways website that vertically aligns middle and high school curricula for students in the Charlotte area to help them visualize computer science and information technology careers.
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Durham Public Schools
Thanks to support from Biogen, five Career Technical Education (CTE) teachers in Durham Public Schools designed and launched a website for fellow Durham teachers to introduce their students to various biotechnology and life science career pathways. The site features a career corner, lesson plans, and classroom resources.
![Keisha Speight teaches math in her classroom.](https://kenanfellows.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/378/2020/12/Speight-07-1200x800.jpg)
Green County Schools
Four Greene County Schools mathematics teachers worked with district leaders to develop instructional resources that better-aligned classroom content with workforce skills to strengthen the school system’s STEM pipeline. The teachers also worked on vertically aligning the district’s K-8 math curricula.
Support a TLC in Your District
Contact Mark Townley, associate director, at matownle@ncsu.edu.