How to Incorporate Social-Emotional Learning in Your Classroom
Learn how corps member Alexis Achiah (Greater Chicago-Northwest Indiana, '18) wove social-emotional learning into her lesson plans and saw tremendous change in her students.
The TFA Editorial Team
Developing Chicago’s Principals
Learn how alumna Natasha Patterson is driving change as the deputy chief of schools at Chicago Public Schools.
How Two Special Education Teachers Advocate for Their Students
Learn how special education teachers Becca Hahn and Patrick Kelly advocate for their students.
How One Principal Is Building Student and Teacher Confidence
Andrea Black is going into her seventh year at Schmid Elementary. Learn how this TFA alum is empowering both her students and teachers to realize their full potential.
The Chemistry of Coaching
Learn how Laura McKelvey acts as a coach both for her baseball team and her chemistry students.
Bridging the Success Gap After High School
Transitional programs help high school students earn credentials to enter good-paying jobs and pay for continuing education after graduation.
Laura Zingg
Editorial Project Manager, One Day Studio
A Micro Look into the Macro World of Economics
It’s about more than just numbers. From criminal justice reform and insurance markets, to city government—these alums are putting to use their backgrounds in economics.
Paula Ann Solis
How a Neighborhood Becomes a Classroom
Corps member Nushrat Jahan shares how she celebrates the diversity of her Rogers Park classroom.
Supporting Students' Social and Emotional Growth
In his end-of-year project, corps member Alec Josiah reflects on the importance of social-emotional learning in his early-childhood classroom.
Alec Josiah
A Parent’s Lifelong Friendship with Our Teachers
Learn how parent Wendy Navarro has formed partnerships with her daughter's Teach For America educators.