Envisioning Educator Roles
for Transformation

Responsive Education Systems
Need Responsive Educator Roles

Publication
August 30, 2024
By: Maria Crabtree, Katherine Prince, Jeremiah-Anthony Righteous-Rogers

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

  • Intended for educators and pre-service teachers; educator preparation programs; state, district and school leaders and funders
  • Explore eight potential educator roles
  • Use a template to help your learning community create your own future educator roles

We must take a fresh look at what education systems are asking the people working in them to do. Without periodically revisiting the design of the education workforce, we risk continuing to do things as we have always done rather than how the people working and learning in these systems need things to be done.

In Envisioning Educator Roles for Transformation, we look ahead 10 years to imagine future educator roles that promise to help education systems support students of all races and ethnicities, incomes and identities in pursuing learning experiences that enable them to uncover their passions and thrive in an evolving world.

Inside the publication

Explore eight potential educator roles that could help each learner have educational experiences that center their needs, interests and passions, feel like they belong and have the power to make choices about their futures – not just about what they will be, but who. In each description, you’ll learn about role qualifications, responsibilities, indicators of success and much more.

At the end of Envisioning Educator Roles for Transformation is a template to help you create your own future educator roles and generate ideas about what roles could be useful in your context or in education systems generally.

Join us in thinking about what might be possible for the future of learning and the future education workforce.

THE AUTHORS

Maria Crabtree
Director of Strategic Foresight Projects
Katherine Prince
Vice President of Foresight and Strategy
Jeremiah-Anthony Righteous-Rogers
Senior Manager of Strategic Foresight

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