City Teaching Alliance

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 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.

At City Teaching Alliance, we are deeply committed to dismantling systems of racial and socioeconomic inequity in education in order to eradicate the disparities facing children in urban school settings.

Through our highly selective, best-in-class program, we develop aspiring teachers into highly effective full-time teachers who are committed to excellence and equity. After an initial paid residency year alongside a mentor teacher, you will be placed in full-time classroom position with a full teacher salary and benefits.  Across the residency year and subsequent 3 years as a novice teacher, you will receive 85 hours of dedicated 1-on-1 coaching, earn your Masters in Education from American University School of Education and acquire professional dual-teaching certification. You will complete our 4-year program with the skills and confidence for a successful teaching career.

To be an urban teacher is to have the confidence that you are thoroughly prepared and positioned to make a positive impact on the lives and education of the children in your classroom.

We are revolutionizing education. Join the movement.

Join the City Teaching Alliance Team!

We are a mission-driven team dedicated to providing students in urban communities with highly effective teachers. More than half of our staff are former educators, lending our classroom and school experiences to build upon our theory of change. Although we come from different backgrounds, we are all committed to equity, inclusivity and ensuring every student receives a great education. Our mission is what binds us together as colleagues and helps guide every decision.

City Teaching Alliance seeks talented people committed to our mission to train teachers to be highly effective educators who empower students in the nation’s highest-need schools.

We are always looking for talented new leaders in the classroom!