Teach For America Greater Baton Rouge

We are so grateful to Big Buddy Program for being our summer New Teacher Training partner and helping create a meaningful learning experience for our corps members.

Throughout practicum, corps members worked alongside Big Buddy mentor teachers and staff, supported students from K-8th grade, and had the opportunity to strengthen their pedagogy and content knowledge in a real classroom setting. These moments of practice, feedback, and collaboration are essential as our newest teachers prepare to lead classrooms of their own.

Special thanks to Mrs. Gay and Mrs. Simmons for helping plan all the details and ensuring corps members, mentor teachers, staff, and students had what they needed for a strong summer practicum experience. Thank you, Big Buddy, for investing in students and in the development of new teachers across Greater Baton Rouge.

🎉 Thank you, Air Products, for joining us at TFA GBR STEM Day at Lowery Middle School in Donaldsonville! Your demonstration taught students about CO2, hydrogen production and storage, and how gases are used in everyday items like chip bags. Students left eager to learn more about argon and climate change, with some now dreaming of careers in engineering and even working for Air Products! 🔬💡

The TFA GBR AI Workshop during Practicum gave corps members the chance to think creatively about the real challenges that arise to meet student needs and provide additional differentiation opportunities to advance student outcomes.

Led by Mike Yates from the Reinvention Lab, corps members explored how PlayLab can help teachers design practical tools to support their students and classrooms. We were also grateful to have Langston and Astha, two Teach For America Houston corps members, share the tools they built and used this past school year to help solve challenges in their own classrooms.

By the end of the session, corps members had started building their own tools and received feedback from others in the room. It was exciting to see our newest teachers use innovation, collaboration, and classroom-centered problem-solving to prepare for the year ahead.

We loved seeing our newest teachers alongside some of our partners including LSU College of Human Sciences and Education, Cox, TFA Board of Directors, & Thea, lean into innovation, collaboration, and practical problem-solving as they prepare to meet the needs of students in their classrooms. 💡

Congratulations to last week’s KREWE winners! 🎉
Each week, corps members are nominated by their peers for living out our KREWE values: Keep Students First, Relationships, Excellence, Willingness to Grow, and Energy. We’re proud to celebrate the impact they’re already making throughout Practicum.