Teach For America

We mourn the loss of Jim Foley, who was not only a journalist committed to bringing to light the lives of those in need, but was also a member of the Teach For All community as an alumnus of Teach For America’s '96 corps in Phoenix, Arizona.

Through social media, there has been an outpouring of love for Jim that shows just how many lives he touched. Our hearts go out to Jim’s family and loved ones.

Inside and outside of the classroom, alumni across the network continue to take on the challenges to educational equity and excellence in their nations and around the world. Grounded in their experiences teaching in high-need schools and under-resourced communities, they are leading innovations to expand opportunity for growing numbers of children and families.

— Wendy Kopp, CEO and Co-founder, Teach For All

This spring, 20 Enseña por Mexico participants (Profesionales de Enseña por Mexico, or PEMs) and 10 corps members from Teach For America’s Dallas, Texas region spent time visiting and learning from each other’s classrooms and communities as part of a unique exchange program between the two organizations.

"You need to lead the community, and you need to follow the community." 

Drawing from her experience as Chancellor of DC Public Schools (“the best job in the world”), Teach For America alumna Kaya Henderson reflected on the benefits and challenges of leading change from inside the education system in a keynote address at the Teach For All Global System Change Conference in Santiago, Chile on April 4. 

"What can we do classroom by classroom, school by school, to prove that every child from every community can succeed in school and succeed in life as well as any child in any other community?"