Helping Students Thrive in School and Beyond

The New Teacher Project is founded by Michelle Rhee and like-minded educators who believe that all students deserve great teachers.

TNTP launches Teaching Fellows, a program that prepares talented people with deep content knowledge to teach in high-need schools.  We form partnerships with major urban districts, including Baltimore, New Orleans, New York City, and Washington, D.C.

We publish our first policy report, Missed Opportunities, addressing teacher shortages in urban districts.

We publish Unintended Consequences, proposing specific reforms for policymakers to improve the quality of education in city classrooms by enabling the best match of teacher to school.

First lady and former educator Laura Bush donates proceeds from Read All About It to The New Teacher Project.

The New Teacher Project is active in two dozen districts, providing hands-on consulting in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and others.

We publish Mutual Benefits, examining New York City’s shift to mutual consent in teacher hiring.

We release The Widget Effect, revealing how school systems treat teachers as interchangeable parts and exposing the national failure to acknowledge and act on differences in teacher effectiveness.

We begin partnering with state departments of education and charter management organizations.

The organization is renamed TNTP to reflect the shift from a single focus on teacher recruitment and training to a broader, bolder mission.

We add work on school culture and leadership, as well as teacher retention and compensation, to our business portfolio.

Forbes recognizes TNTP as one of seven organizations to incorporate flex time and remote work into their culture.

We publish The Opportunity Myth, documenting why some high school graduates are unprepared for college and a career. In it, we identify four key missing resources: grade-appropriate assignments, strong instruction, deep engagement, and teachers who hold high expectations. More than 360K people, including teachers, school leaders, community partners, and parents, have visited the site or downloaded the report to access our recommendations for improvement.

We launch the COVID-19 School Response Toolkit, containing free resources to help schools navigate challenges related to the pandemic, from at-home learning implementation to planning for the residual effects of the pandemic in upcoming years. More than 70K educators make use of the tools.

We publish Accelerate, Don’t Remediate and Unlocking Acceleration (2022), which demonstrate that giving students grade-level work bolstered by just-in-time supports is key to addressing academic inequities exacerbated by COVID-19.

We celebrate our 25th anniversary. At our org-wide conference, a panel of past and present TNTP leaders reflect on the organization’s history and share their visions for the future.

TNTP’s work is about so much more than recruiting and placing new teachers. We are partners for change in public education, supporting school systems, communities, and families in achieving their goals for young people in and beyond the classroom.