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This year, Teach For America • Greater Boston is preparing to welcome a corps of approximately 50 of the nation’s most promising future leaders, who will be teaching next year in our city’s lowest-income classrooms and working to ensure their students have the educational opportunities they deserve. Alumni living in the Boston area are a leadership force, working from within education and every professional sector to effect broader change. Learn about living and teaching in Boston.
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Corps Impact
During the 2009-10 school year, approximately 50 corps members will be directly impacting the lives of approimately 3,000 students in Greater Boston.
Principal Satisfaction
- 95 percent of recently-surveyed principals (in schools with Teach For America corps members) reported that they would like to hire another Teach For America teacher.*
- 95 percent of principals surveyed regard Teach For America teachers as effective as, if not more effective than, other beginning teachers in terms of overall performance and impact on student achievement.*
*"Teach For America 2009 National Principal Survey,” Policy Studies Associates, July 2009
Impact on Student Achievement
A growing body of research shows that corps members have a positive impact on their students' achievement. Read more about our impact.
Greater Boston : Projected Corps Member Placement
| Assignment | % of Corps |
|---|---|
| Mathematics | 24% |
| Science | 20% |
| Social Studies | 4% |
| English | 12% |
| Elementary | 14% |
| English as a Second Language | 12% |
| Special Education | 14% |
| Total | 100% |
*Percentages are rounded; corps members who teach bilingual, ESL, or special education are also accounted for in the grade-level/subject placement percentages. Numbers are accurate as of August 20, 2009.
Characteristics of the National 2009 Corps
| Corps Profile |
|---|
| Average GPA: 3.6 |
| Average SAT: 1344 |
| Held leadership roles on campus: 89% |
| People of color: 30% |
*Percentage of senior classes who applied to Teach For America
Alumni Impact
Fostering Alumni Leadership for Systemic Change
Nationally, more than 60 percent of corps members continue to work in education,
including more than 360 who are school leaders. Of all alumni, 93 percent report they are supporting Teach For America’s mission through their career, volunteer activity or graduate study.
Regional Supporters
We are grateful to have many supporters who generously contribute to our movement in Greater Boston. The foundations, corporations and individuals listed below have made it possible for Teach For America to continue to recruit, select, train, and support teachers who are working to eliminate educational inequity in our city.
Contact
To support Teach For America • Greater Boston with a gift or to request additional information about our impact or finances, please contact:
Teach For America • Greater Boston
Josh Biber
Executive Director
60 Canal Street 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02114
617.956.0924
joshua.biber@teachforamerica.org
Executive Director
Josh Biber is the founding executive director of the Greater Boston region, where he also served as director of new site development, laying the groundwork to establish this new site. Josh first joined Teach For America staff in 2006 as a recruitment director, garnering 20 percent growth at his portfolio of universities, including Harvard, Brown, the University of Rhode Island, and Providence College, and 50 percent portfolio growth in 2007. A 2004 Phoenix corps member, Josh was the regional recipient and national semi-finalist for the Sue Lehmann Excellence in Teaching Award after he led his fifth graders to two years of reading growth and more than 80 percent mastery of math content in each year of teaching. Josh graduated with honors from Brown University and earned a M.Ed. from Arizona State University.
