HFT Teacher Leaders Program, at its core, is about empowering and celebrating educators to lead, innovate, and inspire. Our purpose is to shape leaders who will champion the future of education here in Hartford, Connecticut, our mission to provide these educators with the tools and platforms to effectuate real change, and our vision to foster communities where teachers are recognized as the true architects of progress in our schools, and by extension in our communities of families and children in Hartford, Connecticut.