Teach For America

There are many barriers to political participation in the US. Three TFA alumni discuss just a few of these barriers. Please VOTE! #breakingdownbarriers

This week's #FeatureFriday teacher is Michael Mather, a Special Education Teacher at North Broadway Elementary School in Escondido. In the spirit of #Halloween week, we wanted to share how he gave some of his students quite the scare recently when the school transitioned to a hybrid schedule. After weeks of #distancelearning, they didn't realize Michael is over 6' tall in person! #zoomlife

This week's #FeatureFriday teacher is AiVi Tran. AiVi is a Special Education Teacher at Bell Middle and Valencia Park Elementary, both in the San Diego Unified School District.

This week's #FeatureFriday teacher is Cam Perdido, who is a K-8 Special Education Teacher in the San Diego Unified School District and a 2020 TFA corps member. Shout out to Cam for the positive feedback she has already received about her leadership and facilitation style! #TFASanDiego #DistanceLearning

Meet Noemi Delgadillo, who is a 2020 TFA San Diego corps member and Education Specialist (7-12th) at the Charter School of San Diego. Over 85% of our 2020 corps call San Diego home, including Noemi! #FeatureFriday

Meet Lily Martinez, 2020 TFA corps member and Special Education/Science teacher at Orange Glen High School in Escondido! Lily is this week's #FeatureFriday educator. Make sure to check out her fun fact! #TFASanDiego

Registration for TFA's LGBTQ+ Brave Education Summit is now open to all corps members, alumni, educators, students, and community members! The event is virtual and FREE and will include a series of 90 minute online sessions held in the evenings throughout the month of October. Sessions will cover a variety of topics including LGBTQ+ Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC), policy, student support, and trans/non-binary/gender non-conforming. Register here: https://teachforamerica.org/brave-2020

We are excited to share that our Executive Director, Dr. Randy Ward, will be on the advisory council for the Black Community Investment Fund.

Meet Mathew Mansoor, our #FeatureFriday educator this week! Mathew is a San Diego native and is teaching math and psychology at Health Sciences High and Middle College. 85% of our 2020 corps have San Diego ties and are excited to teach in the community where they grew up or went to school in. #TFASanDiego

Today is #NationalVoterRegistrationDay! National and local races, from your senators to your elected school board members, can have an enormous impact on the quality of our schools and the education our students receive.

"When a curriculum leaves out perspectives and narratives, all students miss out on building context and meaning around the role that racism has and continues to play across our systems." https://www.teachforamerica.org//examining-learning-throug

It's #FeatureFriday and this week we would like to introduce you to Delphine Pastiaux-Murphy, a 2020 TFA San Diego corps member. Delphine is teaching Special Education in the San Diego Unified School District. Just over 60% of our incoming corps members are SPED teachers, working with some of our county's highest need students. #TFASanDiego #OneDay

Meet this week's #FeatureFriday educator and 2020 TFA San Diego corps member Albert Serna, who is starting as a 10th and 11th grade math teacher at Guajome Park Academy. #TFASanDiego #OneDay #welovemath