Houston Annual Report 2022

IGNITE POTENTIAL

Tommy Inglesby

Board Chair

Managing Partner, Accenture

Andrea Alexander

Chief People Officer Rent the Runway

April Bailey

Executive Vice President, Commercial Banking and Marine Finance Amegy Bank

Ben Guill Managing Partner, White Deer Energy

Kristen Habich

Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

James Hernandez

Attorney, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Chris Johnson

Chief Financial Officer, Athlon Solutions

Caitlin Pickard Vice President, Investment Management Division, Goldman Sachs & Co.

Josephine Smith

Founding Board Chair

Community Leader, Retired Educator

Colin Pogge

Partner, Gibbs & Bruns, LLP

Ben Samuels

Community Leader

Former CEO, Victory Packaging

Dr. Robert Satcher

Faculty Physician, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Doug Selman

Community Leader

Retired Vice President, Research and Development ExxonMobil Chemical Company

Lori Vetters

Managing Director, Regions Bank

Farid Virani CEO & President, Prime Communications

DearFriends,

On behalf of Teach for America Houston (TFA Houston), thank you for your support during another year of adaptive yet hopeful times as we continued to make a meaningful impact on Houston’s educational landscape. Despite the persistent challenges of recovering from huge learning losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, during the 2021-22 school year we had much to celebrate, including our 30-year anniversary of recruiting, selecting, and training our city's next generation of educational leaders!

Our leaders saw these challenges as opportunities to determine how to best support all of Houston’s children in this moment We piloted the innovative Ignite Fellowship (Tutoring) program with 178 exceptional, equityoriented college students providing virtual small-group tutoring to nearly 500 3rd-8th grade at-risk students who needed additional support in reading and math to meet their academic achievement goals. We also launchedDream Labs, a set of immersive design spaces where students leverage their imagination and creativity to innovate and solve problems affecting their communities We remain steadfast in our efforts to ignite the potential of our corps members, alumni, and students until we realize the day when every child has an opportunity to attain an excellent education.

Alongside our TFA colleagues across the nation, we are working toward a bold goal that will dramatically expand outcomes for students: By 2030, twice as many children in the communities where we work will reach key college and career readiness milestones indicating they are on a path to economic mobility and a future filled with possibility.

To achieve this 2030 goal, our work last school year centered on deepening our relationships with our partner schools by clustering corps members on campuses, restructuring our organization to align our staff member teams with the school district partners we serve, and retaining our corps members despite record teacher transitions from the field. Our 2021 corps member class was one of the largest in the country and I am proud to share that we retained 92% of our first-year corps members and inducted 87% of our 2020 corps members into alumnihood

As we reflect on the accomplishments of our corps members, alumni, and students, we recognize that we could not have made such a positive impact on the Houston community without your support. We are grateful for your partnership in our efforts to expand the possibilities for our students and create an educational system that prepares all of Houston’s children to learn, lead, and thrive in our ever-changing world

Yours

Tiffany Cuellar Needham Executive Director Teach For America Houston

in the movement,

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TeachForAmericaHouston'snetworkleadsinschoolsandcommunitiestomeettheneedsofstudents.

225 CORPS MEMBERS

19,000STUDENTSIMPACTED

88% of corps members stated they are proud to be part of TFA

88% of corps members stated that they feel part of a community within TFA that is driving toward impact

91% believed they were effectively contributing to the effort to ensure that all children will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education

95% of corps members agreed they are growing in the capabilities they need to play a valuable role in the movement for educational equity

1,754 ALUMNI

CORPS MEMBER STATS

450 TEACHERS

75 SCHOOL AND SCHOOL SYSTEMS LEADERS

41 POLICY ADVOCATES

13 SOCIAL ENTREPRENUERS

IGNITEFELLOWSHIP 470

10 FELLOWS

178

STUDENTS TUTORED BY IGNITE FELLOWS PARTNER SCHOOLS

Teach For America's Ignite Fellowship, a national tutoring corps, remains a bright spot of innovation in expanding access to high-quality tutoring to accelerate student learning while attracting education-focused leaders to our work.

FELLOWS: OUTCOMES: 61% 52% 51% identify as coming from a low-income background of college seniors applied to teach as a Teach For America corps member

identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color

99% 95% 84%

of schools reported that students grew in academic learning and engagement

of students reported that their fellows taught them in the way they learned best

of students felt like they mattered in Ignite

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TeachForAmericaLeadsatAllLevelsatStevensonMiddleSchoolinHoustonISD

Over many years of partnership with Stevenson Middle School, we have created a pipeline of corps members who become alumni educators, instructional specialists, assistant principals, and principals to serve a student population that is 91% economically disadvantaged and 60% “at risk.”

One teacher, Teela Murphy (Houston ‘14), was recently awarded the 2022 Kinder Award for Excellence in Teaching, a $25,000 award for exemplary teaching and commitment to students and families in low-income communities. Another alum, 8th grade administrator Christine Velasquez (Houston ‘16), expanded the Ignite program in spring 2022, partnering students in every 8th grade classroom with Ignite tutors. As a result of these strategic efforts in math, the percentage of Stevenson 8th grade students passing STAAR more than doubled between the winter and spring of 2022, and the percentage of students mastering standards quadrupled.

CORPSMEMBERSLEADIN CLASSROOMS

KUNALKATARIA

(HOU '20, YES PREP NORTHLINE)

Kunal founded his school's first advanced math program for students who have reached mastery, helping them to be college-ready

ALUMNILEADINSCHOOLS

ALISONCUMBLEY (HOU'02,KIPPHOUSTON)

Alison Cumbley (New Orleans ’02) is the founding school leader at KIPP Journey Collegiate. She is excited to spearhead an innovative approach to increasing student outcomes, continuity, and retention in order to achieve bold high school graduation rates for her students

KORYNECAGE (HOU'21,KIPPHOUSTON)

Koryne started a Gay-Straight Alliance group on her campus to support student wellbeing and ensure all kids knew they belonged at the school

CIERRA NICKERSON (HOU '09, ALDINE ISD)

Cierra is the principal of Hall Success Academy, which serves as an 8th-12th grade alternative secondary school that uses blended learning to personalize instruction to students’ needs to ensure they stay on pace to graduate

OURDONORS:SCHOOLYEAR2021-2022

Teach For America Houston is deeply grateful for the support of the following individuals, agencies, corporations, and foundations that contributed $500 – $100,000+ to our efforts in FY22 (June 1, 2021 – May 31, 2022).

$100,000+

AmeriCorps: OneStar Foundation

Dan L Duncan Foundation

Edith and Robert Zinn

Greater Texas Foundation

H-E-B Grocery Company

Samuels Family Foundation

Texas Education Agency

The Brown Foundation, Inc

The Meadows Foundation

The Powell Foundation

The Walton Family Foundation

U.S. Department of Education

$25,000-$99,999

Asha and Farid Virani

CFP Foundation

ConocoPhillips

Cynthia and Ben Guill

EOG Resources

Good Reason Houston

Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

Janet F Clark

John P. McGovern Foundation

MD Anderson Foundation

Sarah and Douglas Foshee

The C T Bauer Foundation

Vivian L. Smith Foundation

$10,000-$24,999

Alice & Terry Thomas Charitable Fund at the Greater Houston Community Foundation

Andrew J. and Lillian A. Posey Foundation

Annie and Bob Graham

Barbara and Louis Sklar

Cathryn and Doug Selman

Cathy Chapman

Eddie and Chinhui Allen

George and Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation

GRITS Foundation

SCHOOLDISTRICTPARTNERS

$10,000-$24,999 (continued)

Jenny and Chris Johnson

Jeri and Marc Shapiro

Lisa and Will Mathis

Macey Reasoner

Melbern G and Susanne M Glasscock Foundation

Pamela Campbell

Susan and Barrett Reasoner

The Clayton Fund, Inc

The Hevrdejs Foundation

The Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Crawford Family Fund of the Foundation for Southeast Texas

The Tapeats Fund

The Willard and Ruth Johnson Charitable Foundation

$5,000-$9,999

Accenture (Texas)

Amegy Bank

Andrea Alexander

Ginny and Ron Nixon

Goldman Sachs & Co

J Squared Family Foundation

Jarrett Whitaker

Jenny and Jim Elkins Family Fund

Jim Adler & Associates

Josephine and Richard Smith

Katherine and Brian Reid

Kathryn and Richard Rabinow

Kimberly J Sterling

Lori Vetters

Mariloli and Marvin Odum

Nancy McGregor and Neal Manne

Patricia and Lawrence Mullen

Rice University

Sangita and Colin Pogge

Sarah Farish

Scurlock Foundation

Strake Foundation

The Jim and Pam Harris Charitable Fund

The Mendelsohn Family Fund

Tommy Inglesby

Vera and Andy Baker

Y. Ping Sun and David Leebron

$1,000-$4,999

April Bailey

Beth Robertson Family Fund

Caitlin and Ryan Pickard

Carla Knobloch

CIBC

Cristina and Morgan Lunt

Kate and Malcolm Hawk

Kristen Habich

Layla and Will Lumpkin

Leah Taylor

Leslie and Jack Blanton, Jr.

Linda and George Kelly

Lois and George Stark

Marianna and Chris Brewster

Mike and Rhonda Stewart

Missy Roe

Mitch Tiras

Morgan and Christopher Hollins

Patricia and Lawrence Mullen

Porter Hedges LLP

Regina Rogers

Richard Loebs

Robert H. Blocker

Robin and Lela Gibbs

Rosanette S Cullen

Sara and Bill Morgan

Shawn L Raymond

The Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Family Foundation

Tiffany and Paul Needham

$500-$999

Aaron Miller Realty

Alexandra Caritis

Ann Kennedy and Geoffrey Walker

James Hernandez

Joe Quoyeser

Kathryn Biron

Margrit Young-Zellweger

Michael and Cece Fowler

Mr and Mrs Donald M Graubart

Nancy P. Thompson

Nella Garcia

Sylvanus Polky

We are grateful for our school district partners: Aldine ISD, BakerRipley Community Schools, Houston ISD, KIPP Texas Public Schools - Houston, and YES Prep Public Schools.

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STATE (TEXASEDUCATION AGENCY&AMERICORPS)

EXPENSES

INDIVIDUALS

CORPORATE

FOUNDATION

STATE (TEA & AMERICORPS)

SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS

FEDERAL

MANAGEMENT,GENERAL, &FUNDRAISING

ALUMNI SUPPORT

ONGOINGTEACHER DEVELOPMENT&SUPPORT

CORPSMEMBER

RECRUITMENT& PLACEMENT

CORPSMEMBER PRE-SERVICETRAINING &PREP

CORPS MEMBER RECRUITMENT & PLACEMENT CORPS MEMBER PRE-SERVICE TRAINING & PREP ONGOING TEACHER DEVELOPMENT & SUPPORT

ALUMNI SUPPORT MANAGEMENT, GENERAL, & FUNDRAISING

LOOKING TOWARDS

2030

& APPRECIATING THE LAST 30

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