Join a national community for educators in their first 10 years of teaching who are ready to grow, connect, and lead.
Leaving an indelible mark on the landscape of tomorrow.
Nurturing our future, future-makers.
Ten Forward is a network for early career educators in schools, kura, and beyond, who are shaping what learning looks like.
This is for you if you…
• Are within your first 10 years of teaching
• Want to connect with educators beyond your own school
• Are curious about the future of education
• Want to grow as a leader, thinker, and change-maker
• Believe teachers can help shape systems, not just classrooms
What you’ll experience:
• Interactive online conversations and webinars
• Opportunities to hear from leading thinkers and innovators
• Collaborative projects exploring the future of learning
• A supportive professional network that grows with you
Why join us?
• Connect with other passionate early-career educators across the country
• Engage with mentors and global thought leaders
• Explore future-focused ideas shaping education and learning
• Share your frontline insights and learn from others’ experiences
• Develop your professional voice and leadership
• Collaborate on projects and conversations that extend beyond your own classroom or centre/kura/school
Register to join – it’s free!
Please take a few moments to complete the following form and you’ll be added to the community.
Meet our team
Ten Forward is an initiative of EdRising, and is being developed by a small team of people committed to supporting early career teachers to have access to the same sorts of growing experiences they did.
Derek Wenmoth
FutureMakers
Philly Wintle
Albany Senior High School
Kylie Hogan
Good Ed
Stephen McConnachie
Think Elearning
Our vision
Ten Forward supports and nurtures a network of early career educators across the education ecosystem – schools, kura, and the many places learning happens beyond them – who are shaping the future of learning. Together, we collaborate to design equitable, future-focused solutions and support one another to respond with purpose to a rapidly changing world. In doing so, we develop our future-focused capabilities and those of our students and the communities we serve.
We exist because frontline insight matters, especially in times of change. If you’re in your first decade of teaching, you’ve lived through upheaval and reform. You know what’s working and what isn’t. Ten Forward puts futures thinking and solutions-focused education at the centre of your professional life – and makes sure your voice stays there.
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