WHO CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE:  Black College Students and Black College Graduates

WHAT'S THE OPPORTUNITY:  Teach for America helps Black College students and graduates get teaching opportunities by placing them into underserved schools as well as giving them the opportunity to help reform education from the inside.  

NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY:  If you are into names of top tier schools, the organizer is from Princeton.  But if you are smarter than you are vain, you will realize that you have the opportunity to join an organization that is currently looking for more diverse instructors would be incredible.  Another advantage: they are looking for diverse (Black) educators to reform education from the inside. Also, they are already actively working with HBCUs. For example, Spelman is also working with this organization.

ONLINE INFORMATION SESSION:  You can join them on June 8th online by clicking here.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Teach For America plans to place the largest and most diverse teacher corps in the organization’s 20-year history in high-need urban and rural public schools across the country this fall. Among Teach For America’s incoming corps of 4,500 new teachers, nearly one-third are people of color. Eleven percent of incoming corps members are African American, which is more than double the percentage of African American graduates at the more than 350 colleges where Teach For America primarily recruits. 

SOUNDBYTE: Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in expanding educational opportunity. This fall, more than 8,200 corps members will be teaching in 39 regions across the country, while more than 20,000 Teach For America alumni continue working from inside and outside the field of education for the fundamental changes necessary to ensure educational excellence and equity. For more information, visit www.teachforamerica.org.