A survey of California teachers by the Inverness Institute Published on February 19, 2021 What is like to be a teacher in California during the pandemic? What are their experiences and challenges? How do they engage their students when they are on-line? How do they revise their curriculum and teaching practices for distance learning? What supports are they receiving (and not receiving)? How do they feel about state and district policies and the re-opening of schools? What if you could talk about all this with one hundred of California’s leading teachers spread across the state? On this page, EdSource presents the findings of the inaugural California Teacher Consultant Response Network. It is a project of the nonprofit Inverness Institute. In late January, researchers enrolled 121 teachers from across the state to be consultant members of the network and report back periodically on their experiences. Members were selected from lists of teachers who have participated in education leadership programs and school improvement and curriculum networks. Those chosen closely match the diversity of the state’s teaching force by ethnicity, gender and geography. Two-thirds teach at the middle and high school levels. Most have more than 10 years of classroom experience.