City Teaching Alliances’ program is designed for individuals who want to be career teachers. The program includes a residency in which residents serve as co-teachers in urban classroom settings before assuming responsibility for their own classroom.

Once participants begin to lead their own classrooms post-residency, district and charter school leaders affirm that they are ready for their roles. In 2021–22, Dallas-Fort Worth principals reported that 94% of first-year City Teaching Alliance teachers were prepared for the classroom.

City Teaching Alliance was founded on the core belief that every child deserves a great teacher, every year, regardless of where they live.

In Dallas-Fort Worth, 83% of participants identify as a person of color, and 37% are first-generation college students.

City Teaching Alliances' Black Educators Initiative is designed to remove barriers inhibiting the recruitment and retention of Black educators. Learn more.

City Teaching Alliance is committed to provide teachers with culturally relevant social-emotional learning tools, with our Transformative Social-Emotional Learning initiative. Learn more.

In addition to 3 years of coaching, participants spend a residency year in a classroom with a host teacher.

In the 2021–2022 school year, 100% of residents’ host teachers (with whom they co-teach, and from whom they learn on the job) reported that their residents provided additional value to student learning, and 100% indicated that their residents demonstrated cultural competency in their emerging teaching practice. 

City Teaching Alliance recognizes that the transition into becoming a high-quality educator can be demanding and challenging.  We offer a number of forms of support through community partnerships to help our teachers thrive during their time in the program, such as:

Housing Partnerships

City Teaching Alliance DFW partners with the Apartment Association of Greater Dallas and their members to offer affordable housing options to Urban Teachers residents, with a streamlined application and leasing process. Urban Teachers Housing Partners offer benefits such as discounted rent and waived fees. Our Housing Partnerships are designed to make finding an apartment as easy and stress-free as possible, and are one way the Dallas community has committed to welcoming new teachers to the area!

YNAB

City Teaching Alliance DFW partners with YNAB (You Need a Budget) to offer two free years of access to YNAB’s award-winning budgeting software, along with their full suite of financial education resources. On average, new budgeters with YNAB save $600 in their first two months and more than $6,000 their first year. Unlike most budgeting software, YNAB is built around simple financial rules that help new budgeters be successful.

Summit Climbing & Yoga

City Teaching Alliance DFW is partnering with Summit Gyms to offer free climbing and yoga classes specifically designed for teachers as an opportunity to relax and socialize with their fellow cohort members. Classes are free of charge and fit to an City Teaching Alliance teacher’s schedule.