The Educator Advancement Council (EAC) was created as a public-nonprofit partnership through state statute to significantly improve professional supports for Oregon's public educators. The council launched 10 Regional Educator Networks (RENs) across Oregon. The RENs facilitate a process that centers the voices of educators to operationalize meaningful, systemic changes to improve recruitment, retention, and professional learning. They do this work through a networked continuous improvement process; the RENs will not initially organize around a solution, program, or an initiative, but rather around improving systems of support for educators along the educator advancement continuum. All of the RENs are engaging in work that centers anti-racist, culturally sustaining policies and practices to co-create racially affirming environments for Black, Indigenous, and educators of color (BIPoC).
System Organization
This system is
organized by ten Regional Educator Networks (REN)/Sponsoring Organizations with
an emphasis on local context to ensure training and support are responsive to
the local strengths and needs of educators and students of their region. The identified regions include:
