I strongly believe that Teachers Network builds teacher Leadership for quality education, by shaping education policy and improving teachers' methods of using technology. The organization's affiliate directors provide excellent leadership to teachers throughout the country. In turn, the teachers who participate in our programs are improving the quality of education and reaching out to colleagues to support them in developing their abilities to serve as true educational leaders.

As a high school history teacher in Boston’s public schools in the 1960s, Joan Goldsmith worked toward ending segregation. In 1969, she joined the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and two years later she founded Cambridge College, a graduate school committed to providing high quality teacher education in an ethnically and racially diverse community. For this work, Joan has been awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. Joan is the author of six books that have been published internationally and translated into ten languages. Her books and consulting work address issues of leadership, conflict resolution and organizational change. Her best selling book, Learning to Lead is a standard text for teacher education and her book, The End of Management and the Rise of Organizational Democracy was chosen the best book on leadership in Germany for 2002 and is the guide for democratic reorganization of public schools in many urban environments. Joan has been a supporter of the Teachers Network since 1982 when she first learned of its excellent contribution to quality public education.