Robin Henderson, Director of MTR, concluded her seven year career at the Memphis Teacher Residency in March. As the MTR family prepares to celebrate her this weekend at the MTR Spring Formal, the time is right to share an open letter to her written by MTR...
The MTR Residency Class of 2017 Application Season opens today, September 1! Tory Lang shares her journey to Memphis in the blog post below. Tory interned at MTR Camp in 2014, graduated from Duke University in May 2014, and began Memphis Teacher Residency in June 2015. The...
New MTR Residents and MTR Camp interns are preparing now for their journey into urban education in Memphis. Ayanna McFarland shares her reflections below regarding her evolving relationship with MTR, which began in 2011 when an MTR resident was placed in her classroom at Whitehaven High School. Ayanna would eventually...
Author: Dr. Robin Henderson | Director of MTR | Article from MTR 2014 Yearbook: Community Matters The education reform movement has revealed that effective teachers can positively influence student achievement; yet working in isolation, they cannot transform schools or districts. At Memphis Teacher Residency, we believe...
Author: Christy McFarland | MTR Pre-Residency Director | christy@memphistr.org The MTR Application season opened a few days ago and our Pre-Residency team quickly shifted into recruiting and selection gears. As we review applications and conduct interviews, there are occasional missteps by applicants that can easily be avoided...
A story of encouragement for first year teachers. Written by Danielle Shelley, MTR Recruiter; wife to Josh Shelley (MTR, '12), mother of Harvey and Verity It was about this time last year that I started feeling guilty about my job as a recruiter for MTR. I was...
Author: Lauren Farris | MTR Camp Staff '14| Calvin College '15 This original post and other brilliant musings from Lauren can be found on her blog: laurenestellfarris.wordpress.com Memphis worked it’s way into my blood this summer. I don’t know if this is a by-product of the absurd Mississippi Delta humidity...
Students who participated in after-school reading coaching with our team of over 80 wonderful volunteers learned on average 383 sight words since August! For many of our students who started the year far below grade level in reading, this is a HUGE difference in their...
Lead Teach is the time residents find out who they are as teachers. -Chandra Perkins The gradual release model informs Memphis Teacher Residency’s approach to teacher training. As residents instruct our students in the classroom using this model, aspiring teachers like me also experience this type of...
[caption id="attachment_1896" align="alignnone" width="600"] Daniel Warner, '14History, East High School[/caption] We are called to faithfulness, not effectiveness. This stands out in a field as data driven as urban education. It flies in the face of the Protestant work ethic. And honestly it just makes me feel...