SPARK Teacher Fellowships

Rigorous professional learning that produces evidence, not just hours.

Your teachers have ideas that could strengthen community partnerships, deepen student engagement, and showcase what's possible in your classrooms. SPARK Fellowships give them the structure, accountability, and support to make those ideas real—with documentation every step of the way.

Why Districts Choose SPARK

⚡ Proof over paperwork. Every fellow develops a classroom project, implements it with students, and documents both the process and the impact. No theoretical worksheets. No compliance checklists. Just authentic evidence of teacher growth tied to student outcomes.

🔥 Competency-based rigor. Teachers advance through the fellowship by demonstrating their learning, not by clocking seat time. They design projects grounded in personalized, competency-based pedagogy—the same principles your district is working to scale.

🤝 Community-connected learning. Fellows build projects that extend beyond classroom walls—partnering with local organizations, addressing community needs, and creating learning experiences students can't get from a textbook. These aren't add-ons. They're the work.

🌱 Teacher Leadership Development. SPARK Fellowships cultivate teacher leaders aligned to the KnowledgeWorks Portrait of a Leader. Fellows develop learner-centered leadership grounded in vision-setting, collaboration, adaptability, and continuous learning.

What You Get

📋 Documented teacher growth. Throughout the fellowship, teachers build professional portfolios capturing their instructional decisions, student work, and reflective practice. These aren't hidden in a Google Drive—they're shared, discussed, and refined in community with other fellows.

We partner with the platform Unrulr to house our community of practice and document teachers’ work, reflections, and interactions.

🎤 Public presentations of learning. The fellowship culminates in a showcase where teachers present their projects to colleagues, administrators, and community partners. It's proof of concept and professional celebration in one.

📸 PR-ready assets. Every project generates stories, images, and documentation you can use immediately. Want to show families what innovative teaching looks like in your district? Want to share evidence of teacher leadership with your board? You'll have it—authentic, high-quality, and already captured.

🚀 A network effect. When 10-20 teachers go through SPARK together, they don't just complete a fellowship. They become a professional learning community that continues collaborating, sharing practice, and raising expectations for what's possible.

The Structure

• Six sessions (5 full cohort, 1 coaching call) that balance exploration, design, implementation, and reflection

• Asynchronous support via facilitated discussions and documentation prompts

• 1:1 coaching to push thinking and troubleshoot challenges

• 20 PD hours of personalized, competency-based professional learning

• A portfolio and public presentation that demonstrate teacher growth and student impact

Investment

$800 per teacher | Cohort of 10-20 educators

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