Our placement regions

Teach For America currently places corps members in 35 urban and rural areas where they are needed most - and will be expanding to additional regions in 2010. You will find unique cultural opportunities, challenging professional experiences, and corps member friends and colleagues in every site. To learn more about each region, click on a name below.

Regional assignment

Expansion sites

Regional assignment

Applicants invited to attend a final interview indicate their preferences for regions, grade levels, and subject areas, and receive their assignment once they are accepted to Teach For America. Teach For America works to meet applicants' preferences while meeting districts' needs and adhering to district and state requirements.

Applicants invited to an interview day submit their regional preferences in one of two ways:

• Individuals who are flexible can choose options such as “send me to any region” or “send me to any rural region”. We encourage individuals to evaluate their personal level of flexibility and to consider choosing one of these options, which allow us to assign them where they are most needed. Click here to learn more about rural regions.
• Individuals with more specific regional preferences can rank each region separately as highly preferred, preferred, or less preferred and can numerically rank regions in order of preference. They also can indicate any special circumstances they would like us to consider, such as being placed in a region with a spouse. We ask all applicants who rank regions separately to give special consideration to the Mississippi Delta, South Louisiana, and Greater New Orleans, as each of these regions has a particularly urgent need for corps members. We also encourage applicants to consider being part of an expansion site.

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Expansion sites

School districts are asking Teach For America to bring more corps members to their communities because of their impact in the classroom and their ability to lead long-term reform efforts. Given the enormity of the problem we are addressing, we intend to expand our efforts. Starting in the 2009-10 school year, we will be placing corps members in Dallas, Greater Boston, Milwaukee, Nashville, Twin Cities, and Tulsa. In the 2010-11 school year, we may add San Antonio as well as other regions to be determined.

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