It’s always nice to be recognized. Teach to Lead, an organization partnering with the US Department of Education to highlight teacher leadership, heard about our site and did a feature piece on us. Here’s an excerpt:

I started a teacher voice blog to promote the voices of educators in my community, naming it Bluff City Education after one of Memphis’ nicknames. My goals were two-fold: give teachers a place to contribute constructively to the policy discussions in our city and state as well as to provide a place to share our stories. This would be a blog written by teachers for teachers.

Most importantly, we’ve made progress in the mission to bring teachers’ voices to education policy discussions. We’ve had several of our pieces republished on online sites, such as Tennessee’s State Collaborative on Education Reform, The Educators Room, and Eduwonk, as well as in the local newspaper, the Commercial Appeal. We’re more than halfway to a thousand twitter followers and have thousands of visitors to the site every month. Not bad for a first year!

Check out the full piece on the Teach to Lead Website, and follow them on twitter. Thanks for all the teacher writers and readers who have contributed to developing leadership in Shelby County through Bluff City Education!

Follow Bluff City Education on Twitter @bluffcityed and look for the hashtag #iteachiam and #TNedu to find more of our stories.  Please also like our page on facebook. The views expressed in this piece are solely those of the author and do not represent those of any affiliated organizations or Bluff City Ed writers. Inflammatory or defamatory comments will not be posted.