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Making Space for Youth Activism

Schools can be safe environments for students to explore ways to improve the world and the communities they live in.

Laura Zingg

Editorial Project Manager, One Day Studio

Erik Jansen

Illustrator

An illustration of students standing on books with picket signs

Creating A Path Toward Healing in the Classroom

How schools have adapted their social-emotional supports to help students cope with the emotional toll of the pandemic.

Laura Zingg

Editorial Project Manager, One Day Studio

A close up of a dark-skinned student wearing glasses and looking down.

When Will History Be Taught Honestly?

If students are to explore America's unvarnished history and grapple with its consequences, teachers must dislodge long-held narratives. Will it take a generation?

Samantha Hernandez

An old painting of a battle with soldiers on horseback

Building Indigenous Futures for Ourselves and Our Nations

How Native educators are combatting the erasure of Indigenous perspectives in the classroom, and ensuring Native students are seen and heard.

Laura Zingg

Editorial Project Manager, One Day Studio

A Native teacher works with young students in the classroom.

Advocating in Partnership With Alumni and Students

Recently, TFA staff and alumni—as well as some Seattle students—gathered in Olympia, Washington, to meet with state legislators and advocate for their education priorities.

The TFA Editorial Team

Called to Speak: The Struggle to Ensure an Indigenous Language Lives On

In the next 100 years, half of the world’s languages could go extinct. A family and a school in Washington are committed to saving one of them.

Joel Serin-Christ

Author

Rajah Bose

Susanna Chapman

A group of students with black shirts and handprints painted over their faces in red hit a large drum while singing.

Alumni Assemble!

What do Teach For America alumni boards do? Here are insights from alumni who serve on leadership councils and on regional boards of The Collective and Prism in Alabama, Massachusetts, Washington and Kansas City.

Laura Zingg

Editorial Project Manager, One Day Studio