Power Saturdays at the BTU
Power Saturdays are a monthly day to connect, learn, and grow our power together through our intensive learning and leadership development opportunities.
- Policy and Organizing Program: Make an impact on key policy issues while building knowledge and organizing skills.
- Writing and Research Fellowship: Deepen personal and professional identity through research and writing.
Choose the opportunity that’s right for you, and chart your path to building our collective power and your own leadership.
Presentations at BTU Membership Meeting on Wednesday, May 13th @ 4:00pm
Policy and Organizing Program (POP)
In the POP, BTU members gain knowledge and skills while contributing to the BTU’s core organizing campaigns. In the process, fellows
- Engage with state and local ed policy makers
- Understand education policy and how it works
- Build foundational organizing skills
- Join a national network of AFT educators advocating for the policies we need
- Conduct action research
- Apply your research and organizing skills to support a priority BTU campaign by contributing to campaign planning, action-planning, mobilizing/outreach, or base-building
- Present findings and policy recommendations to policymakers, BTU leaders, and colleagues
Stipend: $1500
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Apply today at: bit.ly/BTUepp
BTU Writing and Research Fellowship
In partnership with UMASS Boston and the Boston Writing Project, the Boston Teachers Union is proud to offer a year-long school and classroom-based research fellowship to all BTU members, including teachers, librarians, nurses, social workers, paraprofessionals, related service providers, instructional coaches, and specialists.
The BTU Writing and Research Fellowships creates a collaborative intellectual community in which Research Fellows support one another to:
- develop their leadership skills through engaging in professional identity work
- conduct rigorous practitioner research into questions that arise from thinking critically about their work and its context
- take action in their classrooms or schools to advance professional practice, promote student learning and well-being, and pursue social justice
- collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data
- develop theory, create knowledge, and share learning with colleagues and the broader community
- submit research findings for publication in academic journals and/or education conferences
Earn graduate credit from UMASS Boston (for a fee) and a $600 honorarium.