Founded by Dr. Emily Feistritzer, TeacherSpeak is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering teachers by giving them a platform to be heard. Through our podcast, educators can share their experiences and insights and work together to inspire positive change. In addition to podcasts, we offer a dedicated Discord channel where teachers can connect, discuss, and support one another in real time. TeacherSpeak fosters a community for educators to share ideas, problem-solve and create the future of learning and teaching.
To utilize Data Science and the transformative capabilities of artificial intelligence, our goal is to forge a new era in education by leveraging the vast troves of data available in the digital age.
“Ensuring that future teachers are equipped to teach in tomorrow’s learning world will require a reimagining of the fundamental role of teachers. In a world where information is readily accessible, the role of the teacher as ‘dispenser of knowledge’ doesn’t work anymore. It is time to rethink the knowledge and capabilities we expect teachers to be endowed with, regardless of where they are in the world.”
Dr. Emily Feistritzer, Founder, Future Teaching Institute
The nonprofit Future Teaching Institute (FTI) is an outgrowth of the work of Dr. Emily Feistritzer, an innovator in the field of teaching for over half a century when she founded the National Center for Education Information (NCEI) in 1979. NCEI published newsletters, 48 reports on education, including surveys of teachers, school administrators, school board presidents, state departments of education, university colleges of education, local school districts and individuals interested in becoming teachers. This research led to her creation of TEACH-NOW/Moreland University in 2011, one of the nation’s largest technology-centric teacher preparation and certification institutions that served thousands of teachers in more than 150 countries over a decade. Dr. Feistritzer sold the company in October 2021, and founded FTI with the proceeds of the acquisition. The Future Teaching Institute (FTI) is a District of Columbia 501(c)(3) Private Operating Foundation focused on education research and policy.
