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Dallas
As members of a new expansion site, Dallas corps members will have the opportunity to influence and lead the region’s movement toward educational equality. There will be numerous opportunities for Dallas’s charter corps members to assume leadership positions within the corps in the region's first year. Charter corps members from other expansion sites have valued the unique experience of leading Teach For America's movement in a new area of the country. Like the charter corps members who preceded them, Dallas corps members will help shape and set the vision for Teach For America’s role within a new community and school system. Additionally, Dallas corps members will join a deeply committed community of reformers looking to Teach For America to play a vital role in education reform in the city.
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| Site Opening: 2009 |
| Corps Size: 94 |
| Average summer temperature: 82° Average winter temperature: 49 ° |
| Car: Access to car is essential |
| Beginning teacher's salary : $40,000-44,000 |
Situated in north Texas, Dallas is the third largest city in Texas, with a population of 1.2 million residents. Despite its large population, most Dallas residents find reasonably priced housing, and teachers commute less than 30 minutes to their school sites. With more than 40 colleges, universities, and professional schools, Dallas caters to young adults with a variety of nightlife and cultural activities. Dallas corps members will find several comfortable and affordable communities to choose from as they settle into Dallas as the charter corps.
Life
Dallas is known as the Southwest's leading business and financial center and as the number one visitor destination in Texas. The downtown is speckled with historic buildings and museums and has a vast array of hotels, shops, restaurants and other businesses. This area is surrounded by the West End, Deep Ellum, McKinney Avenue, Greenville Avenue, and North Dallas areas, all providing unique and exciting cultural, shopping, dining, and entertainment opportunities. While corps members will be placed in high-need schools throughout the city, corps members can choose to live in any of a variety of neighborhoods ranging from vibrant retail areas to small suburban communities.
Whether on field trips with their students or unwinding on the weekend, corps members can explore the range of activities and sights that Dallas has to offer. Dallas has more shopping centers per capita than any other major city nationwide and four times more restaurants per person than New York City. Dallas is home to the famous Dallas Cowboys football team, in addition to the Mavericks basketball team and the Stars ice hockey team. Additionally, the original Six Flags theme park is located in the suburb of Arlington. Corps members visit more than 60 miles of biking and jogging trails, swim in the areas 17 different lakes, and play on more than 600 public athletic fields, as they enjoy the average of more than 230 days of sunshine in Dallas.
Corps Culture
Corps members will be welcomed by the vibrant community of educational and civic leaders in Dallas who view Teach For America as a key lever in eliminating educational inequity and providing quality education to the 160,000 students in the Dallas Independent School District. In addition to building partnerships with school and community leaders, Dallas corps members can directly impact the development of regional programming and corps culture. As with all Teach For America regions, Dallas corps members can expect to participate in all-corps gatherings, exchange best teaching practices with other corps members of the same grade level or content area, and attend cultural and social gatherings with colleagues and friends.
