The following is a list of organizations and resources that may assist you in your search for other opportunities. Please keep in mind that this list includes both organizations that do and do not have formal partnerships with Teach For America. These links are provided solely for informational purposes and to help you in your pursuit.
Opportunities in Service and Social Change
Opportunities in Service and Social Change
American Camp Association
The American Camp Association (ACA) works to preserve, promote, and enhance the camp experience for children and adults. ACA-Accredited® camp programs ensure that children are provided with a diversity of educational and developmentally challenging learning opportunities. There are over 2,400 ACA-Accredited camps that meet up to 300 health-and-safety standards.
Americorps*NCCC
A full time team-based residential program for men and women age 18-24, AmeriCorps*NCCC strengthens communities and develops leaders through direct, team-based national and community service.
AmeriCorps VISTA
AmeriCorps VISTA is a national service program designed specifically to fight poverty. AmeriCorps VISTA is a full-time, one-year commitment open to US citizens or lawful permanent residents age 18 and older.
Citizen Schools
A national network of apprenticeship programs for youth that connects middle school students with adult volunteers in hands-on learning projects.
City Year
National service program uniting diverse groups of people ages 17-24 for a year of community service, leadership development, and civic engagement. Affiliated with AmeriCorps.
College Summit
An organization that increases college enrollment rates of students in low-income communities.
National Education Foundation
A national non-profit leader in bridging the academic, digital, and employment divides. The NEF has launched national programs to set up CyberLearning Academies in disadvantaged schools in the United States and US Virgin Islands with the goal of providing skills to disadvantaged students in math, science, technology, business, and test prep to close the academic and digital gaps by preparing students for college and the 21st century workforce.
New Sector Alliance
A social enterprise consulting firm with a dual mission of strengthening organizations today while developing leaders for tomorrow. By mobilizing top talent in partnership with the world’s leading management consulting firms and universities, New Sector helps clients address their most pressing challenges and opportunities. Summer and full-time opportunities available for undergraduates, young professionals, and MBAs.
Peace Corps
Peace Corps Volunteers currently work in 77 countries, using skills that are in high demand in countries around the world and providing practical assistance to communities that request it. Approximately 35 percent of Volunteers work in education. Opportunities to depart as early as January 2012 – apply now to the thousands of positions currently open.
Public Allies
National program that advances the leadership skills of its members through full-time, paid apprenticeships in nonprofit organizations. Affiliated with AmeriCorps.
State PIRGs
Alliance of state-based, citizen-funded organizations that help develop leaders for the public interest movement, by offering opportunities in field organizing, advocacy, research, and more.
Opportunities in Education
Achievement First
A nonprofit organization that operates charter schools in urban areas of New York and Connecticut.
Admission Possible
A Minnesota-based nonprofit organization working to make college admission possible for promising, low-income high school students by providing free SAT/ACT test preparation, college admission, and financial aid consulting and guidance in the transition to college.
African-American Teaching Fellows of Charlottesville-Albemarle (AATF)
A Virginia-based nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing a greater diversity to the teaching force in the Charlottesville and Albemarle school districts. The AATF program recruits, develops, and supports qualified African-American candidates seeking a teaching career who will commit to teach in the Charlottesville or Albemarle County public schools. AATF Fellows are provided financial support for tuition, books and fees, academic advising, mentoring, and Professional Development seminars.
Alliant International University – Intern Teaching Program – Early Completion Option – Los Angeles
Provides a comprehensive accelerated certification program for aspiring teachers. The ECO program is a rigorous two-semester design for individuals to receive hands-on teaching experience in Los Angeles classrooms while earning their credentials in nine months.
Aspire Teacher Residency
The Aspire Teacher Residency Program is a teacher training offered by Aspire Public Schools, California’s highest performing urban school system. At the completion of the program, Residents will have earned: a CA teaching credential, a Master of Arts in Education, a $13,500 stipend for the first year plus full benefits and tuition reimbursement opportunities. Residents who successfully complete the first year receive priority hiring for a full-time teaching position at Aspire. Residency placements are available in East Palo Alto, Oakland, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Stockton and Modesto.
Association Montessori International / USA
Provides teacher training to accredit and prepare individuals as Montessori teachers through summer and year-long training opportunities.
Boettcher Teacher Program
An innovative urban teacher residency program for individuals interested in earning a Colorado teaching license and master’s degree from the University of Denver in a full fellowship program.
City on a Hill Charter Public School
A small college-prep charter high school in Boston with a site-based, full-year certification program.
The EnCorps Teachers Program
The EnCorps Teachers Program helps skilled professionals in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math to make the transition into teaching these subjects to younger generations. They work to close the achievement gap through putting passionate math and science professionals into the classroom, so they can pass their knowledge on to future leaders in these industries.
Independent Education
Founded in 1951 as the Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington, an organization supporting independent private schools in Washington, D.C, and its environs, Independent Education has grown to a community of 86 schools educating 35,000 students from early childhood through high school in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Its schools serve many different types of students using many different educational strategies, providing families with a wide range of educational options and helping to make greater Washington one of the most vibrant educational landscapes in the nation. Independent Education offers career opportunities to smart, hard-working individuals interested in teaching in the nation’s capital, whether those individuals have teaching credentials or not.
Kaplan
A provider of educational services that offers full and part-time career opportunities in teaching, coaching, and tutoring.
KIPP
The Knowledge Is Power Program is a network of public schools that serves students in under-resourced communities throughout the United States.
Los Angels Urban Teacher Residency
As the result of an $8.8 million federal grant awarded to California State University Los Angeles (CSULA), LAUTR is preparing future teachers to help close the achievement gap. Teacher residents work side-by-side with a math or science mentor teacher for an entire school year while taking graduate-level classes at CSULA. Upon completion of the 14-month training period, they earn both their preliminary teaching credential and a master’s degree in education. Residents are given a $16,000 living stipend and must commit to teach for 3 years in a high-need LAUSD school. We recruit recent college graduates and career changers. Please visit www.lautr.org for more information, or email LosAngelesUTR@gmail.com.
Mastery Charter Schools
A Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization, Mastery Charter Schools is one of the only turnaround organizations in the country, currently operating four schools serving 1,750 students in grades 7 through 12.
Milton Hershey
A philanthropic boarding school that provides free education, room, and board for children from low-income communities.
Minnesota Reading Corps and Math Corps
AmeriCorps programs that provide trained literacy and math tutors to ensure Minnesota students in preschools through junior high schools achieve reading and math proficiency benchmarks critical for lifelong success.
Mississippi Teaching Corps
A two-year teaching program that recruits non-education majors nationwide to teach in the Mississippi Delta.
Philadelphia Math and Science Coalition
A partnership among businesses, universities, schools, and cultural organizations with the mission to prepare Philadelphia youth to excel in math and science for success in post-secondary education and in an increasingly global workforce that requires math and science backgrounds. The Coalition offers career opportunities for those interested in teaching math and science to 6th-12th grades in Philadelphia public schools, including teacher preparation and professional development programs.
Teach.org
The mission of Teach.org is to inspire and empower the most talented and dedicated Americans to become teachers. Teach.org is a guide for perspective teachers and a resource for those who want to learn more about the best job they’ve never considered. It features an interactive tool that details requirements and provides step-by-step guidance.
Teach4NC
A resource of teaching opportunities in public schools in North Carolina.
Teach Arkansas
A teacher recruitment and training program for individuals interested in becoming teachers in Arkansas public schools.
Teach Kentucky
A teacher recruitment program designed for non-certified college graduates to serve in schools in the Greater Louisville, Kentucky area.
Teachers 2000 Partnership
A full-time partnership between The George Washington University and Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland, where teaching fellows earn 100% tuition assistance for courses required for licensure. Earn teaching certification and a master's degree in two years.
TEAM Schools
A network of open-enrollment public charter schools that has grown from 80 founding students to more than 750 5th through 10th graders on three Newark campuses, as part of the KIPP network.
TNTP Teaching Fellows
TNTP's Teaching Fellows programs streamline the path to teaching for talented professionals and college graduates. Since 2000, more than 26,000 Fellows have begun teaching where they're needed most.
Uncommon Schools
A nonprofit organization that operates charter schools in New Jersey and New York.
The Urban Teacher Center
Pioneering teacher preparation in the D.C. region, the Urban Teacher Center (UTC) is a four-year alternative teacher-preparation program. Each cohort participates in an intensive year-long residency, followed by a three-year teaching commitment in a high-need urban elementary or middle school. UTC’s residents will be fully prepared to become highly competent teachers; in addition to the clinical experience, residents also enroll in a Master’s of Education program that is directly relevant to the urban teacher. All UTC teachers are part of an unprecedented commitment to student performance: only those who can demonstrate that they can improve student learning will complete the program. Over time, UTC teachers will be among the most expert and results-oriented in the nation. For more information, visit www.urbanteachercenter.org or e-mail admissions@urbanteachercenter.org. Upcoming deadlines for the 2012-13 school year are: February 15, April 15, and May 15, 2012. The program begins June 28, 2012.
USC Rossier School of Education
The University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education is dedicated to educating teachers and transforming lives. To extend our passion and the impact our graduates make in the U.S. and around the world, we have brought our Master of Arts in Teaching and Master's of Education programs online. These academically rigorous programs combine interactive online learning with field-based teaching. The overall experience is everything you would expect from USC made available in your own community.
Worldteach
WorldTeach is a well-established NGO founded in 1986 by a group of Harvard students who were motivated by the desire to promote education at the local level in places where teachers and resources were lacking. Each year, we send about 500 volunteers, impassioned by that same desire, to the local schools and the host communities in developing countries around the world that have specifically requested our support. Since our inception, we have placed over 5,000 volunteers, providing them with teacher training, language preparation, and field support, empowering them to affect lasting change on the community they work with so that their influence will survive their experience. Fully and partially funded programs available for year-long and semester programs in American Samoa, Bangladesh, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guyana, India, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Namibia, Panama, Poland, Tanzania, Thailand, and South Africa.
YES Prep Public Schools
A free, open-enrollment public school system committed to improving disadvantaged communities with a mission to increase the number of low-income students who graduate from a four-year college prepared to compete in the global marketplace. Currently serving 2,600 students across five campuses in the Houston area and plans to expand to 13 schools to educate 10,000 students, YES Prep Public Schools combines a highly successful 6th-12th grade model along with high standards for student achievement and parental involvement. Since its inception, YES Prep has been consistently recognized as the best public school in Houston, and since 2001, 100% of YES Prep’s graduating seniors have been accepted to top colleges and universities across the country.
Job Search Resources
50 States' Certification Requirements
Links to detailed state-by-state certification requirements, including information on state alternative certification programs.
50 States' K-12 Employment Opportunities
Links to education job openings by state and by individual school district as well as information on private and independent schools.
Commongood Careers
This organization offers a wealth of services to jobseekers and organizations throughout the hiring process and also provides extensive knowledge about careers in the social sector.
Idealist
Information on over 44,000 nonprofit and community service organizations in 165 countries, as well as a nonprofit career center and nonprofit career fairs.
K-12 Jobs
Nationwide job listings for public and private schools as well as state-by-state information on certification and alternative certification programs.
National Association for Independent Schools
Job listings for member schools of this organization representing approximately 1,350 independent schools and associations in the United States and abroad.
Opportunity Knocks
Search engine for nonprofit job listings nationwide. Offers a resource center that includes resume tips and interview advice.
Partnership for Public Service
Provides information, tips, and resources for individuals interested in internships and jobs with the federal government. Offers tools to assist in your job search including links to current job openings.
