In April 2008, the Teacher Leaders Network underwent a sea change. Drawing on the success, inspiration, and daily insights of the expert educators in the TLN Forum, the Center for Teaching Quality launched a state-of-the art social networking site that allows teacher leaders from across the nation to collaborate and take ownership for their own professional development and the future of the teaching profession.

Growing from our inaugural TLN Forum group, the Teacher Leaders Network now serves as the virtual home to a number of initiatives working under a single mission: To promote the powerful potential of teacher leadership and to improve student learning by advancing the teaching profession.  Today, TLN members appear before state and federal legislative hearings, keynote at important national and international conferences, and share their understandings about effective school reform in numerous media outlets. Members open the door to the real world of school through their authorship of essays, articles, blogs, podcasts, and video messages, which are widely distributed through this website, newspapers, prominent education journals, and our partnership with Teacher Magazine. Learn more about where TLN has been lately in our Newsroom. As TLN expands in scope and vision, inviting new members who reflect the accomplishments and the diversity of our nation's teaching force, its intimate communities will continue to share a large purpose. Teacher, author, and TLN member Rick Wormeli poignantly described TLN’s unique value to the world of education:

"Our profession is ready to have a clear, courageous, insightful, and highly accomplished voice rising above the cacophony of nay-saying and uninformed pundits out there who are currently getting the public's attention. I'm excited to be a part of something that will significantly impact teaching, something where we step forward not only with vision, but with solutions to accomplish the vision. Teacher leadership is finally taking root in the United States, and I'm grateful we have TLN as a central clearinghouse and rallying point for our efforts."

As we look toward TLN’s future, we are excited to envision Teacher Leaders Network as the potential virtual home to educators from across the globe who share the passion and dedication that Rick so eloquently expresses above.