Avengers Take Part In Teach For America Week
October 27, 2005 - Arena Football League (1987-2008) (AFL I)
Los Angeles Avengers News Release
LOS ANGELES - Avenger assistant head coach Brent Winter, team public relations manager Vince Trotter and Wasserman Foundation director Jamie Mark visited the children at Stevenson Middle School in Los Angeles on Thursday, taking part in Teach For America Week 2005. Winter, Trotter and Mark focused on the need to expand educational opportunities and to inspire students to pursue education to attain their life goals.
Teach For America Week is the annual nationwide event in which leaders from all professions spend an hour of their time teaching children from some of our lowest income communities. Each year, dozens of politicians, business leaders, athletes, performers, community activists, and other prominent individuals serve as guest teachers in the schools where Teach For America corps members teach.
"I think that Teach For America does a lot of fantastic things for the community," said Jamie Mark, who has worked with Teach For America in the past. "I am thrilled that the Los Angeles Avengers and the Wasserman Foundation were able to be a part of this event."
This year an array of prominent Americans, including Assembly Member Jackie Goldberg joined national figures as part of Teach For America Week 2005 in an effort to raise awareness of the academic achievement gap that exists along socio-economic and racial lines. By teaching classes in Los Angeles area public schools, these leaders will stress the importance of academic achievement in school and encourage students to strive to attain their goals.
As part of Teach For America Week, more than 150 leaders from every professional sector were scheduled to teach in classrooms from the Bronx to rural South Dakota, South Central Los Angeles to the Mississippi Delta during the week of October 24-28, 2005. Invited guests include such governmental leaders as New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson; Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich; and U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski; and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Teach For America has been in Los Angeles since its inception in 1990. Teach For America has placed over 1,500 teachers in schools in low-income areas such as South Los Angeles, Lynwood, Watts, Compton, parts of Hollywood and more. This year, Teach For America has nearly 300 teachers working at 80 schools in the Los Angeles and Lynwood Unified School Districts. Together, they are impacting the education of almost 25,000 of Los Angeles' youth growing up in low-income areas. Additionally, over 800 Teach For America alumni currently living in Los Angeles continue to work for educational excellence for all as teachers, principals, school administrators and more.
Since Teach For America Week was launched in 1997, more than one thousand of America's most successful leaders have shared their knowledge, insight, and wisdom with thousands of children.
Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in expanding educational opportunity. Currently, 3,500 corps members are teaching in over 1,000 schools in 22 regions across the country; more than 10,000 Teach For America alumni continue working from inside and outside the field of education for the fundamental changes necessary to ensure educational excellence and equity. For more information, visit www.teachforamerica.org.
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