Teacher Leadership Institute (TLI)

The Teacher Leadership Institute utilizes a powerful model for teacher leadership that reflects the changing demographics across our nation. The foundational premise of the TLI model is to develop teacher leaders who can successfully advocate and support diversity and equity in classrooms and communities. The program guides the professional growth of these leaders to be culturally competent in their ability to create and support equitable learning environments for all learners at every school site and district in the country. The program offers the professional learning, support, and experience necessary for teachers to expand their influence and offer their expertise in new, large, and innovative contexts. TLI, grounded in diversity, equity, and cultural competence, brings together overarching competencies (common set of leadership skills) and three intertwined pathways that define the ways in which teachers can forge new paths in education through instructional leadership, policy leadership, and association leadership. 

This is a program NEA administers to cohorts of members. It requires pre-application, is limited to a pre-determined number of individuals, and runs on a published schedule.