OUR MISSION
Powerful parents cultivate lifelong learners in every neighborhood
Currently, 38% of children entering kindergarten in Boston are unprepared.
First Teacher was deliberately founded in Roxbury and Dorchester where people are living under the insidious footprint of both the historical and daily impacts of racism. At First Teacher, we seek to actively dispel the myth that Black and Brown children need to be saved; rather, their powerful parents need to be supported and loved through a powerful community that, together, fights systems which may harm their children.
FIRST TEACHER IS A GAME-CHANGER ON 3 LEVELS:
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Our youngest citizens from our most dismissed communities will be prepared for school because parents/caregivers are supported to teach and learn together. We simultaneously...
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Shift people's mindsets from social-service model to a social-capital model, while offering...
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An effective and sustainable solution to a problems that circumvents the major resource constraints facing early childhood education field. We are tapping the most value and untapped stakeholders, parents/caregiver!