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Supporting Your Growth Building Your Skills CTA offers top-notch professional development opportunities designed to improve the quality of teaching and learning. Whether it's attending one of our conferences, participating in a training or workshop, or applying for a scholarship or grant, CTA can help you be the best educator you can be! Events & Conferences Our statewide conferences deliver knowledge and skills for CTA members on a variety of topics including teaching and learning, racial justice and equity, LGBTQ+ issues, education advocacy, new and veteran educator issues and regional conferences. When you attend a CTA conference, you experience engaging workshops and sessions, perspective from some of the best content experts and thought leaders in public education, and opportunities to network with colleagues. Innovations in Student Learning CTA members are at the forefront of innovative ideas for student learning and transforming the profession. Here are a few ways: Instructional Leadership Corps: Educators, statewide are improving teaching and providing educator-led professional development. Institute For Teaching: Members can receive grants for innovative ideas whether, in one classroom or school wide. Think Tanks: Members come together to discuss and collabo- rate on critical educational issues. Learn more at cta.org/IPD In 2014, CTA partnered with the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Educa- tion (SCOPE) and the National Board Resource Center (NBRC) at Stanford to launch the Instructional Leadership Corps (ILC). The partnership has built a success- ful statewide network of professional development offerings created by and for educators, all designed to enrich teaching and learning. The project is currently deepening investments in existing communities and expanding into rural and geographically isolated sites to sustain partnerships that support our educator-led model of ongoing learning. Learn more at cta.org/ILC The Instructional Leadership Corps Since 2014, the Instructional Leadership Corps has served over 120,000 educators representing more than 2,000 California public schools in at least 504 districts. 3 MEMBERSHIP MANUAL