How one local teacher works with big dreams and small contributions
The average person might say the days of elementary school children should be filled with learning, after-school activities, and time to be carefree. However, as a teacher at Lucy Ellen Moten Elementary School in Fort Stanton, Raymond Pyle sees first-hand the harsh realities that some school-age children face growing up in Southeast D.C.
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AmeriCorps Partnership Continues in 2020-2021 School Year
Urban Teachers is pleased to announce that our partnership with AmeriCorps will continue in the 2020-2021 school year. This coming school year will be the second year of a three-year partnership with AmeriCorps and the Corporation for National and Community Service. In May 2019, Urban Teachers was awarded the opportunity to offer a Professional Corps program to our participants. […]
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Robert Simmons joins Urban Teachers as Executive Director of the Black Educators Initiative
(BALTIMORE, MD) — Urban Teachers announced today that esteemed educator and author Robert Simmons III, Ed.D. will lead the Black Educators Initiative (BEI), an ambitious $25 million effort to place nearly 1,000 new Black educators in classrooms by 2023. Simmons, who started his education career as a classroom teacher, is joining one of the nation’s […]
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A profile on Edgar Otero, a member of Urban Teachers Cohort 2020
With a semester still remaining before he graduates, sociology major and education studies minor Edgar Otero ’20 has already lined up a job that will further is long-term career goal — he will be joining Urban Teachers in Washington, D.C. As part this program, Otero will complete a residency to become certified to teach full-time and obtain […]
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NBA Clippers owner’s foundation gives $25M grant to Urban Teachers, money they plan to parlay into 1,000 black educators
WASHINGTON — Going on 10 years, Urban Teachers has used statistical data, cultural common sense and plucked every person in love with teaching they could find to prove a point: When your child is taught by people who look like them, who grew up in much the same way they did, chances are your kids […]
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Group with Dallas ties launches multi-million-dollar effort to add more black teachers to classrooms
With help from ex-Microsoft exec Steve Ballmer, Urban Teachers – a rigorous teacher training program which has trained and placed teachers in Dallas since 2016 – is embarking on the $25 million Black Educator Initiative.
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Urban Teachers to invest $25 million to recruit and retain Black educators
(BALTIMORE, MD) — Urban Teachers, a national teacher recruitment, preparation, development, and retention program serving Baltimore, Washington, DC, and Dallas, is launching the Black Educators Initiative, an ambitious $25M effort to diversify the teacher workforce. Through the generosity and support of Ballmer Group, Urban Teachers will place 1,000 new Black educators in classrooms by 2023. […]
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Urban Teachers Receives $1.5 Million Grant from the Texas Instruments Foundation
Dallas students to gain more STEM teachers (DALLAS, TX) – Urban Teachers, a national teacher preparation program that trains aspiring teachers for careers in the field, announced today that it has received a $1.5 million grant from the Texas Instruments (TI) Foundation to enhance Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) learning in the Dallas Independent […]
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Baltimore Teacher of the Year Finds Purpose in the Classroom
Finding Your Purpose is its Own Validation By: Kyair Butts When I first started teaching, I wasn’t very good. I didn’t go to college to be an education major. I didn’t take any education classes. I had scholarship money to go to Drake University because I was an All-American Mediator. I liked debating. I was […]