CTA Institute for Teaching

CTA Institute for Teaching We empower CTA members with opportunities to explore and transform their classrooms. TDSBC is context specific, depending on actual teacher experiences.

CTA's Institute for Teaching works to create better teaching and learning conditions in our public schools by promoting teacher-driven change that is strength-based. The California Teachers Association Institute for Teaching (CTA IFT) was formed in 1967 by the Board of Directors of the California Teachers Association and established as an arms-length foundation - a 501(c)(3) corporation - to assis

t public education in ways that the Association alone was unable to address. The centerpiece for the CTA IFT is Teacher Driven Strength-Based Change (TDSBC). TDSBC is formulated from teacher experiences in the classroom, teacher school-community relations, and the teaching and learning process. At the core of TDSBC is a continual search by classroom teachers to improve public education in their local school communities. Way beyond the identification and mastery of externally driven standards, TDSBC is an educational adventure lead by teachers with school-community stakeholders to help students find purpose and meaning in their lives. This search is neither hollow nor random and is designed to help all students, regardless of their circumstances, becomes masters of their own fate. By focusing on what works in our schools, the CTA IFT believes strength - based models for school change add a new dimension to school improvement. Strength - based models provide an asset-based approach that teachers can use to emphasize talents over weaknesses and strengths over deficits to create a learning environment that supports and encourages every student to do their best. What makes strengths - based approaches particularly important is they provide a clear focus and direction for teacher driven change.

🚨 IFT Grants Window Closes March 31! 🚨Get up to $20K for educator-led, student centered, classroom projects!🌍 NEW! Envir...
03/07/2025

🚨 IFT Grants Window Closes March 31! 🚨

Get up to $20K for educator-led, student centered, classroom projects!

🌍 NEW! Environmental Education Grants – Up to $20K for climate projects + networking!
📚 Educator Grant – Up to $5K for individual classrooms.
🏫 Impact Grant – Up to $20K for teams of teachers.

Must be a CTA Member.

Apply now: CTA.org/IFT

01/29/2024
There is still time to register for the workshop, Grant Writing 101. November 14 is the date for the last workshop. Vi...
11/09/2022

There is still time to register for the workshop, Grant Writing 101. November 14 is the date for the last workshop.
Visit our IFT page to register:
https://www.cta.org/IFT

Here’s a great feature on how strength-based education is working across California.
11/07/2019

Here’s a great feature on how strength-based education is working across California.

New report spotlights seven ‘positive outlier’ school districts

Thanks to Toby Brannon and his Biosustainability students for their hard work and to Ed Sibby, CTA Communications staff,...
10/27/2019

Thanks to Toby Brannon and his Biosustainability students for their hard work and to Ed Sibby, CTA Communications staff, for capturing some powerful learning!

Students use data to discover cause of fish kill in aquaponics greenhouse built with CTA-Institute For Teaching Grant Temecula Valley High School (TVHS) science teacher Toby Brannon made an announcement to his class of 59 students who attend his Biosustainability course; “First, I want to say that...

Honored to share some wisdom from a great and dedicated educator.
02/08/2019

Honored to share some wisdom from a great and dedicated educator.

University of Georgia education professor Peter Smagorinsky wrote a piece last year about a promisin...

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