Teach Plus

By Prathima Kathiresan

During the first week of May, Portia, a ninth grade student of mine, stepped on stage to deliver a speech in front of 100 students, teachers, and investors from Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Portia was one of 12 students selected...

This blog post is part of "Should I Stay or Should I Go?," a series of teachers' reflections on the factors that keep them in the classroom, or draw them out. Read the first post in the series and stay tuned for more.

Nearly half of teachers leave urban classrooms within their first three years on the job, just as they're beginning to have the strongest impact on student learning. Teach Plus aims to improve outcomes for urban students by ensuring that more students have access to highly effective teachers -- and that...

In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week in May, Teach Plus interviewed six of the many inspiring teachers we know. We decided to keep interviewing (and celebrating!) teachers because ... well ... why not?

In the Teachers' Lounge today, meet Dwight Davis, who has been teaching in the...

By Vibha Sanghvi

Antoine is a soft-spoken second grader with a wide smile, who hugs me every morning. He is quick to unpack his backpack, take out his homework, and complete his morning job. Some mornings when a student is absent, he'll even do an extra job. Antoine completes these...

By Michelle Morrissey

This month in my twelfth grade Civics class, my students and I studied the intersection of race, poverty, and social policy. We read books by two sociologists who study public housing and analyzed them in daily seminars. We studied various theorists of poverty from Daniel Patrick Moynihan...

In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week, Teach Plus interviewed six of the many inspiring teachers we know. Meet them right here in the Teach Plus Teachers' Lounge throughout the week.

In the Lounge today, meet Abby Taylor, a kindergarten teacher at IPS 106, the Robert Lee Frost School...

In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week, Teach Plus interviewed six of the many inspiring teachers we know. Meet them right here in the Teach Plus Teachers' Lounge throughout the week.

In the Lounge today, meet Tyler Malotte, who attended Los Angeles public schools and now teaches in one....

In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week, Teach Plus interviewed six of the many inspiring teachers we know. Meet them right here in the Teach Plus Teachers' Lounge throughout the week.

In the Lounge today, meet Mary Balla, who teaches Spanish at Anacostia Senior High School in Washington, DC....

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, Teach Plus interviewed six of the many inspiring teachers we know. Meet them right here in the Teach Plus Teachers' Lounge throughout the week.

In the Lounge today, meet Jesse Jeff, a second-grade teacher at Delano Optional School in Memphis, Tennessee. He...

In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week, Teach Plus interviewed six of the many inspiring teachers we know. Meet them right here in the Teach Plus Teachers' Lounge throughout the week.

In the Lounge today, meet Jillian Carew, an algebra teacher and ninth grade level head at Johnson College...

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, Teach Plus interviewed six of the many inspiring teachers we know. Meet them right here in the Teach Plus Teachers' Lounge throughout the week.

In the Lounge today, meet Darren Burris, a middle school instructional coach and high school math teacher at...

By Spencer Lloyd

My students' faces lit up as we rounded the corner into Times Square. The ManualAires, an auditioned choir from Emmerich Manual High School in Indianapolis, had come to New York City to sing at Carnegie Hall. If the reality had not yet sunk in for these Midwestern...

By Lillie Marshall

Like other states across the country, mine (Massachusetts) is in the midst of piloting a new teacher evaluation system. I'm a teacher, so this matters deeply to me. But it also matters to anyone with any stake in education, as the impact of how we measure teacher...

By Cara Bucciarelli

I am a teacher, and I cannot imagine my profession without collaboration.

In my first two years as a world language teacher in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), I looked everywhere for opportunities to collaborate with other teachers.

I read -- and continue to read...

By Marcello Sgambelluri

Earlier this month, I attended the International Summit on the Teaching Profession, where the issue of educational leadership was front and center. This setting seemed a long way from my first grade classroom, but I found many points that resonated within the walls of my...

By Meredith Smith

When I first started teaching, I was swimming in data about my students' academic progress. I taught language arts and algebra to students with special needs, and their IEPs were treasure troves of old score reports, test results and teacher observations....

By Sujata Bhatt

For three days last week, I ditched my fifth grade, high-poverty, English Language Learner, Los Angeles Unified School District classroom of 23 boys and 11 girls. No, I didn't run out of the classroom screaming because I couldn't take it anymore; I love my school and my...

By Celine Coggins

Last week, I joined four Teach Plus Teaching Policy Fellows at the International Summit on the Teaching Profession. These teachers came to the table with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the national heads of the AFT and NEA, and education leaders from around the world...

By Lillie Marshall

"Seven years ago I was living in my little house in Haiti. Had anyone told me then that in 2012, I would be climbing the Great Wall of China with a diverse group of Boston students, I would have simply called them a liar!" -