Empowered

Educator Wellness Support: Under a grant from the DC Office of the State Superintendent for Education OSSE as well as our own direct partnerships with schools we continued to provide assistance to DC schools with educator wellness and staff retention. We expanded partnerships this year serving at least 12 schools this fiscal year and more than 25 now in the history of this program in support of improving adult culture wellbeing and retention utilizing a whole-school approach.

Educator-Led Advocacy and Leadership: Under this program we continued to host our educator fellowship with 30 participating educators being trained as advocates organizers and leaders to improve the conditions at their school and work to identify and solve issues of educational inequity in the city at large. We also engaged and activated over 400 educators to take action through our policy and advocacy work this year to improve teacher retention and improve DCs education system informed by educator ideas and solutions. We achieved great success with teacher-led advocacy as well as former fellows and leaders moving into new leadership roles in the city.