LA Teacher Fellowship Program Application

Instructions:

If you'd like to review all of the instructions for this application before you start filling out this online form, please download this document.

This application form has four parts:

1. Personal Information (including resume/CV, transcripts, personal statement),
2. Lesson Plan,
3. School Improvement Plan,
4. Recommender Information.

All components are due by end of day on Apr 3, 2026; recommendation letters must be submitted by your letter writers by end of day on April 17, 2026. Submission of your application will trigger a request for letters to be sent to each of your recommenders.

Each member of your school site team must apply separately, but only one member of the team needs to submit your School Improvement Plan. (It's fine if more than one person submits it using this form, but each person should submit the same document.)

All fields marked with a red star * require a response.

You may save your progress on this form so you don't need to complete the whole thing in one sitting. (Saving your progress will require you to create an account or share your email address with Jotform.)

Questions?  Contact info@ramtd-up-la.org

Following the outline below, please describe a lesson that demonstrates your strengths as a teacher.

1. A brief description of the context of this lesson (course title, school information, student population, curriculum used, etc.)
2. A brief written statement addressing these questions:
   1. What was the overarching unit in which this lesson was situated, and how does this lesson relate to the overarching unit?
   2. What standards does the lesson address?
   3. What are the student learning outcomes of the lesson?
   4. What are students and the instructor doing during different phases of the lesson?
   5. Was there any technology used for the lesson and if so, how did it contribute to student learning?
   6. Any other details about the lesson that are notable?
3. Work samples from two different students: one who represents a strong understanding of the material and one who struggled with the material.  For each work sample, please write a few sentences addressing these questions:
   1. What does the student understand about this topic? Where is that evidenced in his or her work?
   2. What, if any, misconceptions does the student have about this topic? Where is that evidenced in his or her work?
   3. What did you do next to meet the student’s needs?
4. A short reflection on the lesson and resulting follow-up.  Did the lesson accomplish what you hoped it would accomplish? Were you able to challenge your higher achieving students while still meeting the needs of your students who struggled? What will you do differently if/when you teach this lesson again?

Feel free to attach any supplemental materials used (lesson plans, worksheets, assessments, handouts, etc.).

You and at least one other colleague at your school must work together to propose, design and orchestrate a project that will bring about improved student outcomes at your school. This proposed project will be the centerpiece of your work over the four years of your fellowship so you should think carefully about what you want to accomplish.

Each team of applicants must submit a description of a proposed project that addresses the following questions:

• What is the specific challenge or area of improvement in your school/district do you want to address? Why is this challenge significant?
• What attempts have been made in the past to solve this or similar challenges, perhaps at other schools and districts?
• What do you propose to solve these challenges? How will student outcomes be improved by your proposed work? What mathematics education research backs up or informs your proposed solution?
• Which students will most benefit from these improvements? Which students might benefit less?
• What are some concrete ways of measuring whether your proposed solution is successful? (At least some part of your answer to this question should involve student performance assessments.)
• What resources will you need to be successful?
• How are your proposed improvements aligned with your school’s curricula, standards, practices and culture?
• How do you think your proposed improvements should be rolled out at your school? Can your ideas be shared across your district?
• How will your proposed work continue to be effective after your four-year fellowship is over?
• Why do you think what you and your colleague will do will be successful?

Project proposals will be scrutinized for evidence of a deep concern for students’ learning and of personal growth as a result of prior professional development opportunities. Applicants will need to demonstrate that their school administration will define clear roles for them related to the improvement projects they will design and implement, and will provide them with support, time, resources and compensation commensurate with those roles. Applicants’ proposed improvement projects will be judged on their appropriateness, potential for improvements in student performance, alignment with school and district standards, thoughtfulness of design, and potential for sustainable change. Priority will be given to projects that benefit all students, not just students who are already academically talented.

We strongly encourage all applicants to talk with their school administration and colleagues in their departments to come up with compelling projects that will have school and departmental support.

Please type up your improvement project, and include any supporting documents, research or materials. Your project narrative should not be more than 10 typed pages.

Please provide the names and contact information for two or three individuals who can write about your qualifications, instructional skills, leadership capacity, and/or commitments as an educator. Ideally, you should obtain a letter from (1) a current or former principal or school leader, (2) a current or former coach, (3) a current or former colleague (other than the colleagues that you are applying with).

At least two recommendations are required. A third one is optional, but suggested.

When you submit this form, a request form will be emailed to each individual, so please make sure that the email addresses that you enter below are correct. Reference letters are due by the end of day on April 17, 2026.

Please be aware of the rights afforded to you by the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. You are can waive your rights to examine the contents of these reference letters. We will only use these references letters to aid in the evaluation of your application.

Please sign here to attest that all of the information in this application form is true, complete, and accurateto the best of your knowledge.