National Conversations about Teaching: The RESPECT Project

All across the country, teachers are talking with the U.S. Department of Education (ED) about how they envision a renewed and transformed teaching profession in the 21st Century. This page is designed for educators who are interested in participating in a National Conversation about the Teaching Profession and giving ED their feedback to inform future policy and programs, including a possible competition to transform teaching, which we are calling the RESPECT Project.

RESPECT Vision. Read the newest RESPECT Project vision statement [MS Word, 156KB], sharpened by thousands of educators across the country.

RESPECT Conversations in the News

Teachers and Principals Get Engaged (August 8)

State and District Education Leaders Collaborate to Transform the Teaching Profession (May 30)

Rethink Teacher Appreciation Week (May 8)

Great teachers build nations. They inspire, awaken and raise our children’s expectations. They coax imaginations and lead students to discovery. Teachers shape the next generation of decision-makers.

Ask the Teachers (May 7)

Cross-posted from the Huffington Post.

RESPECT Vision Released for Comment (May 4)

What would it take to make America’s most important profession also America’s most valued profession?

Toolkit

A Letter to Teachers from Secretary Arne Duncan

To prepare our young people for an increasingly competitive global economy, the United States must do more to ensure that teaching is highly respected and supported as a profession and that accomplished, effective teachers are guiding students' learning in every classroom. To support this effort, the U.S. Department of Education recently launched the National Conversation on the Teaching Profession....