Twin Cities

This year, Teach For America • Twin Cities is preparing to welcome a corps of approximately 40 of the nation’s most promising future leaders, who will be teaching next year in our city’s lowest-income classrooms and working to ensure their students have the educational opportunities they deserve. Alumni living in Minnesota are a leadership force, working from within education and every professional sector to effect broader change. Learn about living and teaching in Twin Cities.

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Corps Impact

During the 2009-10 school year, approximately 40 corps members will be directly impacting the lives of more than 2,500 students in the Twin Cities.

Principal Satisfaction

• 95 percent of recently-surveyed principals (in schools with Teach For America corps members) reported that they would like to hire another Teach For America teacher.*
• 95 percent of principals surveyed regard Teach For America teachers as effective as, if not more effective than, other beginning teachers in terms of overall performance and impact on student achievement.*

*"Teach For America 2007 National Principal Survey,” Policy Studies Associates, July 2007.

Impact on Student Achievement
A growing body of research shows that corps members have a positive impact on their students' achievement. Read more about our impact.

Twin Cities : Projected Corps Member Placement

Placement	% of Corps*
Elementary	23%
English as a Second Language	23%
Mathematics	16%
Science	16%
English	14%
Spanish	8%
Total	100%

*Percentages are rounded and do not add up to 100 percent; corps members who teach bilingual, ESL, or special education are also accounted for in the grade-level/subject placement percentages.

Characteristics of the 2008 Corps

Corps Profile
Average GPA: 3.6
Average SAT: 1344
Held leadership roles on campus: 89%
People of color: 30%

*Percentage of senior classes who applied to Teach For America

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Alumni Impact

Fostering Alumni Leadership for Systemic Change
Nationally, more than 60 percent of corps members continue to work in education,
including more than 360 who are school leaders. Of all alumni, 93 percent report they are supporting Teach For America’s mission through their career, volunteer activity or graduate study.

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Regional Supporters

We are grateful to have many supporters who generously contribute to our movement in the Twin Cities. The foundations, corporations and individuals listed below have made it possible for Teach For America to continue to recruit, select, train, and support teachers who are working to eliminate educational inequity in our city.

Corporation, Foundation and Public Support Show more +
$200,000 - $499,999
Medtronic (x3 years) General Mills (x3 years)

$100,000 - $199,999

The Carlson Family Foundation (x3 years) The Minneapolis Foundation (x3 years) The McKnight Foundation (x3 years) Robins, Kaplan, Miller and Ciresi (x3 years)

$50,00 - $99,999

The Frey Foundation (x3 years) Best Buy (x3 years) The Bigelow Foundation The Phillips Foundation

$20,000 - $49,999

TCF Bank (x3 years) The Saint Paul Foundation The George Family Foundation

$10,000 - $19,999

The Carolyn Foundation

 

Individuals Show more +
$25,000 and above
Stephen and Kathi Mahle
$10,000 - $24,999
Lucy Hartwell

$5,000 - $9,999

Addison (Tad) Piper (x3 years) Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation Patrick and Alice Rogers Foundation