The Ewing Marion Kauffman School is a free public charter school founded in 2010 by alumni Hannah Lofthus. The Kauffman School is three-school campus that serves over 1,000 students in grades 5-12 in two middle schools and a high school. Students are accepted by a lottery that prioritizes the six highest-need zip codes within the district, and they are on track to achieve extraordinary outcomes. Ewing Marion Kauffman School was selected for Teach For America’s 2018-2019 Schools To Learn From program to serve as a “learning laboratory” on pedagogical best practices and vision for other educators across the nation.

School Leader: Hannah Lofthus (New York '07)

University Academy was founded by Tom Bloch, Lynne Brown, and Barnett and Shirley Helzberg with the belief that students living in the Kansas City Missouri School District deserve the opportunity to have an excellent college preparatory education. University Academy became the first public charter school in Missouri to be named a National Blue Ribbon School from 2013-2017. Forty percent of their teachers, leadership, and staff are Teach For America corps members or alumni.

School Leader: Tony Kline

At Carver Dual Language, students develop proficiency in their second language by hearing and using it to learn all of their school subjects rather than just by studying the language itself, and they’re expected to be bilingual and bi-literate in both Spanish and English by the end of the sixth grade. In 2019, five Teach For America Kansas City alumni teachers from Carver Dual Language were recognized as finalists for the Sue Lehmann Excellence in Teacher Leadership Award for their rigorous multi-year work to reinvent the school's curriculum, teacher support, and staff training.

School Leader: Mike Coulter

In 2016, Teach For America Kansas City launched the Green Fellowship to attract talented TFA alumni teachers from other regions to move to and teach in KC, while also providing high-performing local alumni with opportunities to expand their leadership beyond the classroom. Green Fellows receive professional development that helps them connect with local leaders, learn together and work toward a capstone project that benefits their community.

Every year, teachers across the country spend $1.6 billion out of their own pockets to support their classrooms. That’s why Teach For America Kansas City launched Shark Tank: Teachers Edition in 2016 to help bring together educators and community leaders to fund different projects conceived by corps member and alumni. Now an annual event, Shark Tank: Teacher Edition gives Teach For America Kansas City teachers the opportunity to pitch ideas for projects to improve their classrooms, schools, and communities. A panel made up of local corporate and civic leaders help by directly investing in these projects. Past sharks have included: Mayor Sly James, Hailee Bland-Walsh, Shirley Helzberg, Julee Jonez, Angela Cervantes, Kansas City Royals All-Star catcher Salvador Perez, and many more distinguished guests.

Co-founded by math and coding teacher David Persley (Kansas City ‘14), Code the Block’s mission is to provide high-quality computer science education programs to underrepresented students in Kansas City and increase minority representation in the Kansas City tech landscape.