“I’ve been teaching for 13 years, and just 2 terms in, I realize what I thought was good teaching wasn’t that good.” This is just one of the countless stories we’ve heard over the years of facilitating professional learning for educators and leaders. Since 2020, 2Revolutions has partnered with Spalding University to support educators through an M.Ed in Teacher Leadership and now an M.Ed in Learner-Centered Practices.

“What do students need to know and be able to do to be successful?” We posed this question to eight Educator Preparatory Programs (EPPs) across Arkansas as part of the work we are doing with ForwARd Arkansas, US PREP, and TPI-US. The Walton Family Foundation has funded the efforts of this Design Collaborative, consisting of eight EPPs, to grant up to a million dollars to those teams with dedicated plans for innovation, sustainability, and commitment to equity in transforming their pre-service programs. Specifically, 2Revolutions’ work is to push for broader, outside-the-box perspectives regarding what students and teachers need to know and be able to do to be successful in Arkansas and beyond. This perspective is a critical foundation for the transformative work each team will embark upon.