How We Learn from Our Teachers

Teach For America’s size and reach gives it a unique vantage point on educational inequity in America. Since its inception in 1990, Teach For America has recruited, selected, trained, and supported over twenty thousand teachers in urban and rural low-income communities across the country. Currently hundreds of Teach For America program staff, many of whom were highly effective teachers themselves, have responsibility for training and supporting corps members.1 These teachers and staff also work with an extensive network of veteran teachers in summer and regional school placements, as well as the faculty of university partners in the several dozen regions where we place and support teachers.