Teach For America Hawai'i

Our Mission: Teach For America finds, develops, and supports equity-oriented leaders–individually and in teams–so they can transform education and expand opportunity with children, starting in the classroom.

Our Why: We envision a world where educators, policymakers, parents, and students are working together to ensure that their communities’ children have the foundation they need to learn, lead, thrive, and shape a better future for themselves and all of us.

In Hawai‘i, our network includes more than 500 diverse leaders, who are teaching nearly 17,000 students on both O‘ahu and the island of Hawai‘i, leading schools, working in important roles at the district level, running educational non-profits, and serving as elected officials. Each enhances the well-being of our community and contributes to the long-term systems level change we collectively seek to effect to improve public school education.