Teach For Us is the free blog community for Teach For America teachers which provides a place to document the experience work ... ing to close the education achievment gap. Teach For Us was developed during the founder's time at the Teach For America training institute and publicly launched July 23, 2006. The concept stemmed from the idea that if he had the inclination to blog about his experience, it was likely that others did, too. It was his belief that the collective voice of a community could resonate louder than blogging alone, however there was no existing site or mechanism for this to happen. Sometime in between lesson planning and copy-room runs, the site was born. In 2008, Teach For America began publicly recognizing TeachFor.Us as a source of finding out “what it’s truly like to be a Teach For America corps member.” read more