San Antonio Annual Report 2022

GROUNDEDIN COMMUNITY, POINTEDTOWARD THEFUTURE

Scott Palmer Board Chair Semi Retired, Auto Insurance Industry Consultant

Deborah Amini Vice Board Chair Retired, Real Estate Agent

David Duran Retired, H E B

Cece Frost Griffin

Assistant Vice President, Leadership Stratgey University of Texas San Antonio

Joseph Hoffer

Managing Partner, Schulman, Lopez, Hoffer & Adelstein

Ali Mayahi, PMP Senior Vice President, Wells Fargo

Amanda Rivas

Associate Director, Practice Credit Programs, St. Mary's University School of Law

Priscilla Saldivar Wang Medical Director, US Acute Care Solutions

Scott Weisberg Consultant

Former Chief People Officer, Wendy's

Brenda Zabojnik Controller, VACO

OURLEADERSHIPTEAM

DearFriendsandSupporters,

Thank you for your support during another adaptive, yet hopeful, year; our educators continued responding to new challenges as we emerged from the pandemic last school year Now, after two years of pandemic caused educational disruptions, we continue to see learning loss particularly in reading and math for our San Antonio kids.

Our leaders see challenges as opportunities to take hold of and determine how to best support our city’s children in this moment. Our alumni have opened new schools during the pandemic and lead strategic planning efforts within San Antonio ISD. We launched the Ignite program last school year, with nearly 200 equity oriented college students providing small group tutoring to almost 500 3rd 8th grade students who need additional support in reading and math. All these efforts are to get our students back on track in the classroom and designing their own pathway for success in school and life.

To reach this reality for our students, TFA San Antonio has a bold goal:

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 our 2030 goal, TFA’s role in San Antonio’s education sector is transforming from supporting individual educators to entire school communities. This starts with intentionally concentrating our corps members, alumni, and staff support to a narrowed number of partner schools to deepen our impact. Next school year, we will grow our corps size from 80 to 110, concentrating a higher number of teachers within our partner districts that need our support and share our pursuit of equitable educational opportunities for all children in our city.

Grounded in Community; Pointed Towards the Future,

As we are Grounded in Community; Pointed Towards the Futur we will be a driving force for equitable growth in San Antonio, seeking to change the prevailing narrative around what’s possible for our students and schools I look forward to sharing our progress next year

With Hope, Nick Garcia

Executive Director

Teach For America San Antonio

John Johnson, a corps member at Pershing Elementary School, wanted to engage his students by doing work together outside of the classroom. From his time as a social worker in Philadelphia, he had seen community gardens that were created to provide fresh fruits and vegetables to families that did not have access to these resources, and thought this would be a good fit for Pershing. Since starting a garden at his school in October 2021, he has seen students encouraged by the impact they have on their community, which increases their motivation to want to learn and continue pursuing new things. The community garden gives students the chance to explore, to cultivate understanding, and to build community.

POINTEDTOWARDSTHEFUTURE

TFA San Antonio has set an ambitious goal: that 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 goal, we are concentrating Teach For America talent in San Antonio ISD and charter networks in the urban core to support these school communities and deepen our impact by empowering educators to lead at all levels: corps members, alumni, and Ignite tutors.

IGNITINGPOTENTIAL

200IGNITETUTORINGFELLOWS

FELLOWS: OUTCOMES:

IGNITE is a national tutoring corps designed to accelerate learning and foster belonging with students. It builds on Teach For America’s over 30 years of experience recruiting and developing leaders to partner with schools across the country to help students overcome the systemic barriers to an excellent education. The tutoring corps in San Antonio is the largest in the nation, and achieved outstanding results even in its first year. have a shared background with our students

of schools reported that students grew in academic learning and engagement

of eligible college seniors accepted an offer to teach as a Teach For America corps member of students felt like they mattered in Ignite

of students reported that their fellows taught them in the way they learned best of students said they enjoyed Ignite sessions

gained new insights about the state of education + their role in working towards educational equity

CHARTINGANEWCOURSE-SKEWTHESCRIPT

In 2019, Dashiell Young-Saver (San Antonio ’17) decided to make his AP Stats class relevant. Working at Burbank High School in SAISD, he created lessons on topics his students cared about: policing and race, food deserts, sports, online dating, and much more. That year, more students at the school took and passed the AP exam than in the prior 16 years combined--a pass rate that increased from 2% to 42%.

Since then, he founded Skew the Script: a nonprofit that provides free and relevant math lessons to teachers. Over 15,000 teachers now have accounts on the Skew the Script website, including about 40% of all AP Stats teachers. He also won EduPitch in 2022, a TFA event that helps support innovation in our classrooms and community.

Teach For America San Antonio is deeply grateful for the support of the following individuals, corporations, and foundations that contributed $10 $100,000+ to our efforts in FY22 (June 1, 2021 – May 31, 2022).

$100,000+

AmeriCorps: OneStar Foundation

Charles Butt Foundation

Greater Texas Foundation

H E B Grocery Company

Malú and Carlos Alvarez

Texas Education Agency

The Ewing Halsell Foundation

The Meadows Foundation

The Walton Family Foundation

U.S. Department of Education

$25,000-$99,999

Alan and Barbara Dreeben

Mays Family Foundation

Rex and Deborah Amini

The USAA Foundation

The William and Salome Scanlan Foundation

$10,000-$24,999

Bill and Wendy Atwell

Frost Bank

Marina Corona

Mr. Edward Whitacre Jr.

NuStar Energy Scott Palmer

Scott Weisberg

Sue and Bill Balthrope

1,000-$9,999

Abigail Albritton

Beldon Roofing

Brenda Zabojnik

Brown & Brown Insurance Group

SCHOOLDISTRICTPARTNERS

1,000-$9,999 (cont.)

Cece Griffin

Corinna Holt Richter and JB Richter

David Duran

David Luna

Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation

James Adams

KSL Resources, LLC Mrs. Suzanne Goudge Sanger & Altgelt LLC

Sarah Harte

Schulman, Lopez, Hoffer & Adelstein LLP Stephen and Christina Lecholop Texas Partners Bank

$10-$999

Ali Mayahi, PMP Alyssa Long

Anna Barron

Austin Wiese

Brian Stackhouse

Brigid Pena

Cassidy Griffin

Chrissy Greenhaw

Donna McIlveen

Fennelle Guevara

Garrett Girouard Jade Tate

Jesse Collado

Julia Durodoye

Kathleen Martinez

Kelly Murguia

Lindsay Buzzelli

Nicolas Garcia

Nila Nieto

Priscilla Wang

Ronald Yates Terri Crimmins

Compass Rose Public Schools, Democracy Prep at the Stewart Campus, Edgewood ISD, IDEA Public Schools, KIPP Texas Public Schools San Antonio, and San Antonio ISD.

ONE DAY, ALL CHILDREN IN THIS NATION WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTAIN AN EXCELLENT EDUCATION.