Cultivating Teacher Leaders with the Utah Teacher Fellows

Welcome back to the UCET podcast, where we talk about all things Utah, education, and technology. In this episode, we get the chance to chat with Tabitha Pacheco - Director of the Utah Teacher Fellows and Teacher and Community Engagement Specialist Stephan Seabury. 

Over of the course of this episode, we discuss the following questions:

1. What are the three most important qualities in a leader?
2. How can teachers best develop their leadership skills? 
3. Where do you see the overlap between teaching, leadership, and technology?

At the end of the episode, we spotlight the Utah Teacher Fellows Podcast. The current cohort of the Utah Teacher Fellows started a podcast where they focus on sharing teacher stories to advocate for the education profession. 

Ryan Rarick (@Coach_Rarick) from Washington County School District and Audryn Damron (@audryn_d)  from Granite School District are the hosts and Kayla Towner (@mrstowner9)  from UEN is the producer. You can listen to the top 3 episodes on the bulleted list below or you can catch up on all the available episodes here: https://utah-teacher-fellows-podcast.simplecast.com/

• S1E5: Lauren Merkley 2020 Utah State Teacher of the Year
• S1E1: Meet The Social Media Team
• S1E4: Machelle Maxwell - The Ultimate Library/Media Specialist

Check out their podcast to see what awesome things are happening in Fellows classrooms across the state. If you are interested in the work the Utah Teacher Fellows are doing, applications for the next cohort are going to open in the Spring. Contact the program director Tabitha Pacheco at [email protected]  for more info.

You can follow the Utah Teacher Fellows in all the following ways:

• LinkedIn: Utah Teacher Fellows
• Twitter: @HSG_ut
• Instagram: @hsg_ut
• Facebook: Utah Teacher Fellows Program
• Website: https://hopestreetgroup.org/teacher-fellows/utteacherfellows/

Special thanks to Matt Winters for the sound editing and Kiera Beddes for hosting.