Leadership Traits of a First Year Corps Member

  • Critically Conscious and Emotionally Resilient

    Build Community. I know how to build a strong and healthy communities in which I feel nurtured. I have a community that supports me

    Celebrate and Appreciate: I understand how gratitude and celebration contribute to my resilience, and I engage in appreciation practices

  • Innovators for Systems Change

    Continue to develop a genuine commitment to reimagine learning for students who are furthest away from opportunity.

    Center on what is possible by affirming the assets of children - and the opportunities aligned to their dreams

    Pool knowledge of how various policies and practices address and perpetuate inequity in order to determine which root cause(s), if addressed, would most strategically advance systems change

  • Rooted In Las Vegas

    Teachers attend 2-3 community events outside of TFA LV events aligned with their interests.

    Teachers can name one community they feel a connection to outside of TFA LV.

    Teachers actively share a few things they love about Vegas with others.

  • Centered on Student Excellence

    Teachers learn to provide opportunities for discourse, make connections from prior experience to new knowledge, enable collaboration and participation, generate evidence of learning, seek feedback from instructional leaders, facilitate two-way communication with families, and engage their students in metacognition.