What we do
Sustaining the Next Generation of Community-Connected Educators
We equip teachers with the support and community they need to teach in alignment with their values.
We develop and sustain community-connected educators through a three-part learning and support model designed to build expertise, belonging, and longevity in the profession.
Develop Community Knowledge
Educators engage in immersive, place-based learning experiences that deepen their understanding of the histories, identities, and cultural ways of knowing and being connected to the communities they serve.
Through guided work with community elders, knowledge holders, leaders, and organizations, participants learn to recognize the wisdom and significance of community knowledges. Over time, they build the relationships and understanding necessary to teach through community-based ways of knowing and being, rather than about them.
This work begins with local history, place, and identity and expands to sustained engagement with community cultures different from one’s own.
Learn How to Use Community Knowledge in the Classroom
Community knowledge becomes transformative when educators know how to translate it into practice.
Participants receive structured support to incorporate community-based ways of knowing and being into curriculum, instruction, assessment, and classroom culture. This includes developing culturally relevant teaching practices, adapting existing lessons, and designing new learning experiences grounded in community knowledge.
Learning is supported through summer institutes, inservice workshops, coaching, and collaborative problem-solving with peers who are engaged in similar work.
Sustain Educators Through Relationships, Wellbeing, and Radical Joy
Retention is not a matter of individual resilience. It is a matter of relational support, collective care, and joy in both teaching and life.
TEECH intentionally creates time and space for educators to build supportive relationships with one another, practice wellbeing strategies, and experience radical joy as a sustaining force in their professional lives.
These structures are designed to reduce isolation, interrupt burnout, and help educators remain in the profession with a sense of purpose, connection, and humanity.
Who is this Program for?
We develop and sustain community-connected educators through a three-part learning and support model designed to build culturally responsive teaching skills, as well as belonging and longevity in the profession.
For Educators
TEECH is designed for educators who are early in their teaching journey and want to build a strong, community-connected practice from the start.
This includes:
Teachers within their first ten years of classroom practice
Pre-service teachers in their junior or senior year
Candidates in fifth-year or post-baccalaureate teacher preparation programs
Educators participating in grow-your-own programs who are not yet licensed
As well as more experienced teachers who want to develop culturally responsive and community connected teaching skills
Whether you are preparing to enter the profession or navigating your early years in the classroom, TEECH offers learning, support, and community to help you teach in alignment with your values and remain in the profession.
For Schools, Districts, and Educational Organizations
TEECH partners with schools and educational organizations that are committed to supporting early-career educators and improving long-term teacher retention.
We partner with:
School districts
Charter schools and charter networks
Grow-your-own teacher preparation programs
Colleges and universities
And all educational organizations seeking to strengthen teachers’ culturally responsive practice and reduce early-career burnout
Through partnership, organizations provide their educators with sustained learning, coaching, and relational support during the critical first years of teaching.
What TEECH Participants Are Saying
A real shift in how I view education, community, and even myself
Over the past 6 weeks I had the opportunity to participate in a pilot program called TEECH (Teaching for Equity, Empowerment, and Community Healing). When I first heard about it I didn’t really know what to expect. Honestly, I thought it might just be another summer workshop. But by the end, I walked away with something I didn’t see coming: a real shift in how I view education, community, and even myself.
We dug into the history of our school systems, how they weren’t built with everyone in mind, and what it means to break those patterns. We talked about stereotypes, heritage, and why reading is an act of reclaiming knowledge. We learned Indigenous practices like smudging and reflected on how healing and teaching can go hand in hand and more. One quote that stayed with me was, "I wish I was as wise as the day I was born." It reminded me that everything we’re searching for, like wisdom, resilience, and creativity, has been inside us all along, we just forget it over time. It was exactly the reminder I needed.
A huge thank you to Kandace Logan for leading this program with so much intention and care, and to all the incredible speakers who poured into us. This program planted seeds and I can already feel them growing. 🌱
— Taleah Jones, Student at University of St. Thomas
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