Power Saturdays at the BTU

Power Saturdays are a monthly day to connect, learn, and grow our power together through three unique learning and leadership development opportunities.

Member Organizers: Build organizing skills and take action.
Education Policy Program: Connect research, policy and practice.
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.

Power Saturday Dates for 2024-25:

Oct. 5, Nov. 2, Dec. 7, Jan. 11, Feb. 1, Mar. 1, Mar. 29, May 3

Presentations at Membership Meeting on Wednesday, May 14th

Education Policy Program

Education Policy Program: How can we support educators of color?

AFT/BTU Education Policy Program Fellows:

  • Engage with state and local ed policy makers
  • Learn how to advocate for our students and our profession
  • Join a national network of educators advocating for the policies we need
  • Conduct action research on policies affecting educators of color
  • Present findings and policy recommendations to policymakers and colleagues

Stipend: $1500

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 healing-centered 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

Earn graduate credit from UMASS Boston (for a fee) and/or an $600 honorarium.

Learn more here or APPLY TODAY. Contact ptritter@btu.org


BTU Member Organizers 2024-2025 Overview

The BTU Member Organizer program develops our most valuable resource as a union—our members—to build union power and activism. The BTU seeks Member Organizers to contribute to fostering a culture of organizing, member engagement, and activism among a broad base of BTU members and allies. Member Organizers participate in monthly cohort training and coaching on the basics of effective organizing. After an initial training, Member Organizers work a minimum of 10 hours a month outside of regular work hours, such as during weekends and evenings.

Participants will:

  • Make plans for, engage in, document results from and reflect on 1:1 conversations

  • Support a priority BTU campaign by contributing to campaign planning, action-planning, mobilizing/outreach, or base-building

  • Attend at least one rally, picket line, or other solidarity action

Compensation: $20/hour for 75 – 100 hours total ($1500-$2000)

Apply at: bit.ly/BTUmemberorg

Questions? Please contact Natalia at ncuadrasaez@btu.org