After completing a year-long cycle of design thinking, Improvement Science, and reflection, each teacher creates a product encapsulating their learning. Cataloged here are their articles, videos, websites, and infographics addressing a variety of subject areas and grade levels, the benefits and challenges of teacher leadership, and describing their personal growth.
Below is a list of this year's FCPS CTEPS & TL4DL Leaders and their work. (Alphabetized by last name.) Please click any name to visit their specific page.
2023-24 CTEPS (pronounced "STEPS") Video
Fayette County Public Schools Office of Innovation, TL4DL Network
Find out more via the official CTEPS website: www.kycteps.org
CTEPS teachers use design thinking to focus on a challenge in their school, district, or state.
By working with others outside of their local environment, teachers seek a wider view and create action plans based on this richer perspective that often sheds new light on old problems back home.
Because CTEPS teachers dream, learn, and struggle together for a full academic year, they cultivate deep relationships with their colleagues and form complex understandings of their challenges. This professional learning community will serve them long beyond the formal end of the program.
Engaging in action research based on the principles of Improvement Science, CTEPS teachers research, design, implement, analyze, reflect on, and publish their results. CTEPS stretches across 16 webinars and 2 face-to-face meetings, and teachers receive compensation for their time and effort.
Teachers who engage in personalized learning that springs from their daily work generate solutions to common challenges that are grounded in sound research and practices. Teachers understand the context of student learning and can use that expertise to re-imagine student's opportunities to learn. Teachers see substantial improvement in student learning and create products that will enable others to duplicate their results. Explore their work and our program here.
CTEPS equips teachers with the skills and knowledge necessary to emerge with the confidence to take on teacher leadership at many levels. Based on the KY Teacher Leadership Framework, teachers engage with self-assessment tools, as well as content-driven webinars that challenge them to grow as coaches, facilitators, community builders, writers, and collaborators.