Teach for America – “A powerful program aiming to eradicate educational inequities that plague our nation by going right at the root cause.”

Pros

- Abliity to work with other like-minded individuals who have extremely strong backgrounds
- Very strong professional development
- Collaborative group work enviroment (especially considering teaching tends to be very individual)
- Solutions-Oriented management
- Managers are always looking to improve your performance
- Very challenging work - but ultra-rewarding

Cons

- Not everyone is fit to be a teacher... and teaching is much harder than anyone ever tells you
- Long work hours - very easy to over work yourself and lose balance

Advice to Senior Management

Nothing major - but doing your best to help corps members find balance early on would be helpful... it is easy to burn out.