City Teaching Alliance is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Rahesha S. Amon as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Dr. Amon is an award-winning career educator and executive with more than 25 years of leadership experience. She joins City Teaching Alliance from New York City’s Department of Education, where she most recently served as Senior Executive Director of School Support and Operations.
“I’m honored and excited to lead City Teaching Alliance into its next chapter,” said Dr. Amon. “City Teaching Alliance has set an incredible benchmark for teacher development and certification. Hundreds of thousands of students have already benefited from the talented career educators carefully nurtured by our program. However, with our nation facing a widespread teacher recruitment and retention crisis, our work is more critical than ever. It’s time to push for a new standard of excellence for teacher preparation in the United States, with City Teaching Alliance the standard bearers.”
City Teaching Alliance operates teacher development and certification programs in Baltimore, Washington DC, Philadelphia, and Dallas. With a residency year in a live classroom environment followed by three subsequent years of teaching, its programs provide practical in-class experience, sustained coaching, and a Master of Arts in Teaching— producing career educators who are deeply committed to making a lasting impact in urban classrooms.
City Teaching Alliance Board Chair, Sekou Biddle, said: “Dr. Amon embodies our mission and values. That, coupled with her deep professional experience and expertise across the public and nonprofit sectors, makes her the perfect fit for City Teaching Alliance. With uncertified and inexperienced teacher numbers rising nationally due to critical classroom shortages, we need to collectively challenge the status quo of how we prepare our educators for the unique challenges and opportunities of classroom teaching. I’m thrilled Dr. Amon will be leading this critical work for City Teaching Alliance.”
Dr. Amon began her career as an award-winning classroom teacher and progressed to roles including Educational Coach, Assistant Director of Early Childhood, and Assistant Principal. Eventually, she became the founding Principal of Frederick Douglass Academy III in the Bronx, New York, before advancing to the positions of Deputy Superintendent and Superintendent of Community School District 16 in Brooklyn. Dr. Amon has received numerous awards and accolades, and holds a doctoral degree from New York University, a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from Fordham University, and a Bachelor of Arts from North Carolina Central University.
She fills the CEO position vacated by Peter Shulman in February 2024, who had held the role for six years.
