Center For Teaching Quality Careers in Raleigh, NC

CTQ is a national nonprofit that's been around since 1999. We envision a high-quality education system for all students, driven by the bold ideas and expert practices of teachers. Our mission is to connect, ready, and mobilize teacher leaders to transform our schools. This sounds simple. But the history of teaching in America has been troubled by rigid hierarchies and absurd power plays that do little to benefit teaching and learning. Troubled by out-of-whack supply and demand systems. By faulty public perceptions of what it means to be "just a teacher." By damaging cultural pressures for teachers to stay "in the box" and close their classroom doors. It's time to turn that around. Time for collaboration, innovation, and making decisions based on what helps students learn—not what's good for a corporation, political party, or outside interest. We know we have only met a small percentage of the hundreds of thousands of extraordinary teachers who are ready to own their expertise—and t