City Teaching Alliance’s mission is to identify, prepare, and retain exceptional career educators who are empowered and equipped to make a lasting impact on the academic and life outcomes of all learners.
What We Do
We work alongside schools, districts, universities, and communities to build the pathways, supports, and partnerships that help educators enter the profession, grow within it, and stay long-term.
We are an alliance of former teachers, school leaders, and educational experts focused on improving the educational and life outcomes of all children through education.
We do this by answering the national call for talent.
How Our Fellows Stay and Thrive
Whether you are beginning your career, changing careers, or already supporting students as a paraprofessional or school-based professional, City Teaching Alliance offers a rigorous, care-centered path into teaching.
Our Impact
In the last 16 years, we’ve trained more than 2,700 teachers who have served over 450,000 students in Maryland, Texas, Greater DC Metro, and Pennsylvania. This is workforce development, powered by excellence.
Caring For The Adults Who Care For Children
Great preparation includes coursework, coaching, certification, and classroom practice. But a lasting career in education also requires connection, guidance, resources, and opportunities to lead. Our C.A.R.E. Philosophy brings together Community, Advocacy, Resources, and Empowerment.
It is how we help educators navigate the profession, sustain themselves personally and professionally, and grow into the leaders their schools and communities need.
Read more about our C.A.R.E. Philosophy
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Advocacy Resources Empowerment Looking for workforce solutions beyond teacher preparation?
City Teaching Alliance works with schools, districts, charter networks, universities, and other aligned partners to strengthen the educator workforce at every stage—from recruitment and talent strategy to early-career development, instructional coaching, professional learning, and long-term retention.
Whether you are working to fill urgent vacancies, develop a stronger local pipeline, support paraprofessionals on the path to teaching, or help educators stay and grow, our team can help you build a solution grounded in your community’s needs.
Four States To Start Your Journey
When you join the Alliance, you will stay in classrooms, strengthen local school communities, and drive student achievement where it matters most.
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