Melanie Reeds (Cohort 2021, Baltimore), a kindergarten teacher at Henderson Hopkins, transformed her passion for teaching into a powerful tool for change in her community. She believes in creating a culture where students are encouraged to embrace failure as a stepping stone to success. Through her innovative approach, Melanie teaches her students not just academics, but the importance of character and resilience. Your support makes stories like Melanie's possible. Together, we’re shaping the future, one student at a time. Learn more about her inspiring journey: https://bit.ly/3XimfFu
City Teaching Alliance
Education Administration Programs
Baltimore, Maryland 8,223 followers
Empowering educators, transforming futures
About us
At City Teaching Alliance, we train teachers to be highly effective educators who empower every child through learning. Our teachers become career educators committed to equity and inclusivity, ensuring every student receives a great education. We believe access to a quality education gives young people the tools to become forces of change in their communities. In partnership with American University, City Teaching Alliance participants earn a Master's of Arts in Teaching. The curriculum is hands-on, practical, and specifically designed for urban schools. Our program emphasizes literacy and math skills, and includes coursework and dual certification in special education and a content area—ensuring our teachers can meet the needs of all children. Only City Teaching Alliance offers a highly-selective, rigorous program that includes three years of intensive coaching. During the first year in our program, known as the residency year, our participants work in the classroom alongside a host teacher getting over 1,500 hours of real classroom experience. Residents devote their time to developing their clinical practice during the day in their assigned school and developing their content and instructional knowledge through coursework in the master’s program at night. In year two, our residents become fellows and step into classrooms of their own. They continue their training as a teacher of record with continued coursework and coaching support. Three-quarters of our first-year teachers complete all four years of the program.
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http://www.cityteachingalliance.org
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- Industry
- Education Administration Programs
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2009
- Specialties
- special education, urban teaching, secondary math and literacy, residency, Masters of Education, job placement, early childhood and elementary education, classroom management, education reform, teacher evaluation, teacher preparation, diversity, equity and inclusion, and Cultural competency
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1800 Washington Boulevard, Suite 411
Baltimore, Maryland 21230, US
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722 I Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003, US
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1825 Market Center Boulevard
Dallas, TX 75207, US
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Baltimore, Maryland 21230, US
Employees at City Teaching Alliance
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Loren Kuznetsov
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Marce Scarbrough
Helping employees learn and use new technology, implementing change management and user adoption.
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Kenneth McCants-Pearsall, Ed.S
Education and Nonprofit Leader | People Development, Professional Learning, Strategy Design | Enhancing performance in mission-driven organizations
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Abel (AJ) Davila
#Diversity & Inclusion #Innovation #HumanResources #ERG Developer #President of the Prospanica Chicago
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🎓 From youth mayor to math teacher: Shana Grant (Cohort 2024, Philly) has a passion for empowering underserved communities that began in high school when she ran for youth mayor, aiming to boost math and literacy rates in DC. Now, she’s ready to bring that same dedication to Philly as a secondary math teacher! 📚➗
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The back-to-school season is here, and it's time to celebrate the start of a new adventure! 🎉📚 While the days may be packed with lesson plans, creative activities, and a bit of classroom chaos, the joy of seeing eager faces and sparking curiosity makes it all worthwhile. Sure, we’re running on coffee and dreams by the end of the day, but every minute is filled with laughter, learning, and those little moments that make teaching so incredibly rewarding. Here’s to embracing the hustle, enjoying the fun, and loving every bit of this year!
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Senior Professorial Lecturer | The 4 Dimensions of Cultural Identity | Cultural Leadership Growth Competencies | Leadership Coach | The Black STEM Teacher Pipeline | Author
I had another City Teaching Alliance alumni stop by my office on his was to teach as an adjunct with American University School of Education! Didn’t I say our alumni are amazing? I love their visits. I’m so proud of you Joseph!
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We're #hiring a new Teacher in Baltimore, Maryland. Apply today or share this post with your network.
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(9/10) “Education is in a really interesting place right now. We are coming out of such a difficult time with the pandemic. We're seeing the effect that it had on kids, socially and academically. Anybody who's teaching right now is still trying to figure out what post-COVID education is supposed to look like. We're still trying to figure out, ‘What is this new era of education?’ We have this entirely digital age, where everything has looked so different from even the youngest teacher's educational experience, and it feels so awkward. We're the ones who have to figure out the way to make it right. If we don't, if we kind of leave it to somebody else, if we don't keep trying our best to find a way to find our niche and do what we can for these kids, then our future is not too bright. I want to be part of their experience. I feel like everybody has at least one or two teachers, when they think back, where they remember, ‘Oh, I had this English teacher this one year that changed me.’ It kind of fills me with hope, knowing that there are young people here where I made a difference in their lives, whether they realize it or not. Sometimes it's hard because they're so young, and they don't really get it. They don't get what's so special about their experiences that they're having right now, but in the future, they will. They're gonna be fine. They're gonna push through just like every other generation did. They're going to get to that point where they're adults, and they're going to be making decisions, and then we're gonna be good. We just gotta keep fighting.” –Keshawn Bostic Ms.Ed Teacher in Dallas Independent School District City Teaching Alliance Fellow, Cohort 2021 Dallas, TX #teachersintheirpower #postcovid #digitalage teachersintheirpower.com
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Rudy Arellano, M.S. Ed. (Cohort 2017, Dallas) continues to make a lasting impact in the education space. Rudy recently completed an Education Pioneers fellowship where he has supported school improvement work with OSSE. "The work surrounding school improvement is one that is personal for me as I’ve seen educational inequities during my own K-12 journey, as well as my meaningful and impactful time as an educator in historically under-resourced and culturally rich communities." We're proud of your continued impact, Rudy, and appreciate your commitment to equitable education.
Invest in talent. Host an EP Fellow! Our partners not only get the support they need on projects but also offer invaluable experiences for the next generation of education systems leaders. We asked 2024 EP Impact Fellow Rudy Arellano, M.S. Ed. to reflect on his experience: “As an Education Pioneers Impact Fellow at the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE), I’ve had the privilege of supporting a variety of school improvement-related work streams as OSSE aims to improve guidance and supports for schools designated for improvement under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Whether I was researching school improvement best practices in varying states and large urban school districts, supporting the monitoring and evaluation of school improvement plans for schools designated for improvement in DC, planning for and conducting listening sessions with varying stakeholders across the DC landscape to gain insights on the perceived sources of school underperformance or contributing to the redesign of the state education agency’s fundamental school improvement resources, I am most proud of the collective impact that I was able to contribute towards each project in service of helping move the needle towards achieving equitable outcomes for all students. The work surrounding school improvement is one that is personal for me as I’ve seen educational inequities during my own K-12 journey, as well as my meaningful and impactful time as an educator in historically under-resourced and culturally rich communities. == Partners - don’t miss out on your opportunity to get the dedicated support you need. Submit your application to host an EP Impact Fellow by the Final Deadline, TODAY, August 28!
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(8/10) “Something I'm struggling with right now is that I don't feel I have the support that I need as a teacher. They expect you to move mountains. But nobody's even moving a pebble for you. At times, that's what it feels like. At my last school, I was the only English II teacher in the building during my first year as a teacher. I did pretty well. I learned near the end of the year that my kids actually did super well. But I didn't have the support. This year, I am struggling much more with behavior than I am with content. I still don't feel like I have the support. I feel like I'm kind of left over here on the island, even though I’ve out-and-out expressed that I need help with this. I'm struggling with this. The comments I get are, ‘It's one of them years,’ or ‘You got a bad group.’ They give you so little, partially because the salary has been up. This is a very hard job, and you want me to have all this stuff done every single day. But you're not coming to my aid when I need you. And I think that's really the biggest thing that burns teachers out. My kids are improving across the board. It's like going to the gym or being on a team. But now I'm seeing gaps — I'm seeing where kids start off right next to each other, but Person A is putting in effort and Person B is not. Then Person A becomes much more confident, which then makes them do even better. I'm seeing students who are actively buying in or improving, so I know I'm doing something right. But some days it feels like I'm doing everything wrong. Some days, it feels like I just can't get right. The lessons suck, nobody is learning, and nobody cares. I'm pulling my hair out and stressing out. Then there are days where I'm seeing how students who struggled last week are now getting it. I’m seeing growth. And that is what I think keeps most teachers here: growth.” –Keshawn Bostic Ms.Ed Teacher in Dallas Independent School District City Teaching Alliance Fellow, Cohort 2021 Dallas, TX #teachersintheirpower #teachingandlearning #publicschools teachersintheirpower.com
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