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2026 Emergent Bilingual Change Agent Network Application 


No one understands the potential of our students better than teachers—particularly those whose home language is not English. Teachers witness firsthand the rich social, cultural, and linguistic assets emergent bilingual students bring to their classrooms, as well as the systemic barriers many continue to face in accessing an equitable and affirming education.


In today’s context, these barriers are being intensified by ongoing educator shortages, rising academic accountability pressures, rapid advances in technology and artificial intelligence, and a national climate that has increased fear and uncertainty for immigrant and multilingual families. For many emergent bilingual students, issues of belonging, language access, and culturally sustaining instruction remain unresolved, even as expectations for academic achievement continue to grow.


Over the last several years, California has adopted important policies focused on supporting its large population of English learners, including the California English Learner Roadmap: Strengthening Comprehensive Educational Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Learners. The EL Roadmap outlines principles intended to guide all levels of the system toward a coherent and aligned set of practices, services, relationships, and approaches to teaching and learning that together create a powerful, effective, twenty-first-century education for English learners. Yet despite these guiding principles, many teachers do not see meaningful improvements in day-to-day opportunities or outcomes for emergent bilingual students in their schools.

Teach Plus believes teachers are essential to closing this gap between policy and practice. As a teacher leader in our 12-month Emergent Bilingual Change Agent Network (EBCAN) fellowship, you will lead a collaborative team of peers, in partnership with your principal, to design and implement school-based solutions grounded in the needs of your learners. With more than a decade of experience activating teacher leadership, Teach Plus will support you in building the skills and confidence to lead change, influence systems, and advocate for emergent bilingual students.

Through the Change Agent Fellowship, you will analyze data to identify student and school needs, develop an action-oriented project aligned to the EL Roadmap, and chart a path forward using continuous improvement to strengthen inclusion, belonging, and academic success for emergent bilingual students.

Successful applicants will receive a $2,000 leadership stipend, a $1,000 implementation grant toward their project, and leadership coaching as they implement their change efforts.  It is recommended that teachers have at least two years of teaching experience.

Eligibility Requirements







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Essay Questions
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Note: Both options will be evaluated by the same standards and there are no advantages to any format. We are trying to make this application as accessible as possible to all applicants.





Which of the following topics does your project most closely align? 
Topics

  • Principle 1: Changing the culture or climate in my school to ensure an assets-oriented and needs-responsive school.

  • Principle 2: Ensuring the intellectual quality of instruction and meaningful access for emergent bilingual students by changing the instructional practice of my peer teachers.

  • Principle 3: Ensuring the systems in your school/district are responsive to the strengths and needs of English learners by improving goals and commitments to English learners; a systemic focus on continuous improvement; culturally and linguistically valid and reliable assessment; and a pipeline of well-supported educators skilled in addressing the needs of English learners, including bilingual teachers.

  • Principle 4: Changing practice to align and articulate within and across systems by adapting programs for continuity, alignment, and articulation across grade levels and system segments and providing extra resources and time in school and/or after-school to accommodate the extra challenges English learners face.

  • Other (please explain)



Resume
Your resume should succinctly (two pages or less) tell the story of how your related experiences, informal and formal leadership experience, and your accomplishments make you a great candidate for the fellowship. If you do not have a current resume, here are some resources to help you build this useful professional tool:

Article on what to include in your resume (new teachers vs. those with many years experience)
ResumeGenius - a free on-line resume builder
Google Docs Resume Templates
Microsoft Word Resume Templates


If advanced to the next round, you will be invited to a virtual interview between April 27th and May 1st. We will be sending you an email to schedule that appointment.


Thank you for your interest in the Emergent Bilingual Change Agent Network.
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