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CommunityShare National Educator Fellowship

REAL-WORLD LEARNING | COMMUNITY | TRANSFORMATION

Are you a PreK-12 educator looking for ways to:

  • Increase student engagement through real-world learning driven by your students’ voices, curiosities, and aspirations?
  • Collaborate with your community to create meaningful and impactful projects?
  • Elevate student work by giving students opportunities to make a real difference in their community?
  • Build relationships and networks of support to strengthen student success and community well-being?
  • Find a supportive community of educators looking to grow and reinvigorate their practice?
  • Design career-connected learning experiences that develop durable skills and portrait of a graduate competencies?

 

If your answer to any of these questions is YES, this fellowship is for you!

Applications are now open for our Spring Virtual Cohort.  The deadline is January 16, 2026.

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The CommunityShare National Educator Fellowship is a 5-month professional learning journey that equips you to design and lead powerful Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) experiences.  Through this fellowship, you’ll learn how to make learning more relevant, connected, and meaningful for your learners by partnering with the strengths and expertise in your local community.  Learn more about our Community-Engaged Learning Framework.  You’ll gain strategies, tools, and support to ignite student engagement, strengthen community connections, and grow as a local education leader.  Throughout the journey, you’ll experience:

Community-Engaged Learning Deep Dives

  • In four interactive virtual sessions across two weeks, you will develop an existing or new project or unit into a community-engaged learning experience.
  • Fellows will learn to:
    • Design community-engaged, real-world learning experiences that align with your learning goals and standards, with student and community assets and aspirations
    • Conduct listening campaigns to engage student voices in project planning
    • Identify and map relevant community partners
    • Develop tools for effective communication and co-creation with partners
    • Design opportunities for students to apply academic skills to real-world issues and contribute to their community

Monthly Community of Practice and 1:1 Coaching

  • You’ll have opportunities to workshop your CEL project, share ideas, solve challenges, and explore topics like co-planning with community partners alongside a group of peers.
  • You’ll gain personalized guidance and support as you design your own CEL projects.

Seed Funding

  • Opportunity to apply for a mini-grant of up to $750 to bring your project to life.

Celebration of Learning and Professional Learning Credit

  • Showcase your projects and receive a certificate of completion and 20 hours of professional learning credit.
  • For questions regarding this resource, please contact CommunityShare.
  • Email Address: team@communityshare.org

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