PRESS RELEASE Memphis Teacher Residency (MTR) today announced the creation of the Memphis Literacy Institute, founded with a vision to further efforts to build literacy across the MidSouth by developing, understanding, and sharing methods for effectively teaching literacy skills. The Institute will provide robust strategy and...
Jeremy Griffin (left), 7th grade ELA resident at The Soulsville Charter SchoolJordan Johns (right), 2nd grade resident at Frayser-Corning Achievement Elementary Jeremy and Jordan, residents in the Class of 2021, reflect on some serious and silly aspects of their teaching journey. WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO BECOME...
Click the image or link to listen to MTR Executive Director David Montague share how he views the intersection between faith and vocation and aspects of his story that brought him to MTR. PODCAST SUMMARY:"As of 2019, the gap is increasing between rich and poor children...
Click the image or link to listen to the Driven By interview with Larissa Gregory, MTR's Social Emotional Learning Department Chair PODCAST SUMMARY:"Educational inequality is a significant problem today. Last week’s episode covered what it takes to make a positive impact on this problem. When you...
Neven Holland, MTR Class of 2015, wrote a piece for The Hechinger Report about how he creates a safe and supportive virtual classroom for his 4th-grade students. The article entitled, "TEACHER VOICE: My students will want to talk about Chadwick Boseman" was also shared in...
MTR staff and alumni visited BEAM in New York, NY in summer 2019. Fellowship Supporting STEM Education and Developing Teachers of Color OverviewMTR is launching The Marjorie Lee Browne STEM Education Fellowship. Set to begin in Summer 2020, the fellowship is designed to inspire, encourage, and support undergraduate...
Instruction at MTR revolves around a set of "maturities," or skills, attributes, and understandings that MTR expects all of its teachers to demonstrate effectiveness in. The very first maturity, out of the nearly 60, is "Students as Image Bearers"; clearly, it is foundational to what...
Students in Ms. Paredes' classroom “Oh, pobrecita Ely, she doesn’t understand you.” Her classmates would tell me since day one. She would look up at me with her big, brown eyes and nod. “Ely has to go to the bathroom!” Her classmates would scream out loud...
Madeleine Gibson (Class of 2020) received this note from her mentor, Rory Hatchel (Class of 2014) on the first day of her lead teach in their 11th grade English classroom at Kingsbury High School. Many positive experiences have already defined my MTR experience thus far, but...
Rebekah Kennedy's residency placement classroom As I take a step back to reflect on the past four months, I am reminded of why I made the move to Memphis, Tennessee to join MTR. In Acts 20:24 Paul states, “But I do not account my life of...