Taught For America, Pt. 1

Jim’s back!

And he wasted no time in recording a two-part episode that has been on the docket for some time: a conversation about Jim and Marcus’s experiences coming into teaching through Teach For America and then, in follow-up episode that will come out later this week, about how they feel about Teach For America’s broader impact on education.

In this initial part of the conversation, both Jim and Marcus explain how they ended up joining Teach For America and what those initial years of teaching were like for them—what was good and also, of course, what was difficult.

Later this week there will be a Part 2 of this conversation in which Jim and Marcus go back and forth about how they feel now looking back on their experience and Teach For America as an organization overall. (Spoiler: they don’t 100% agree!)

Thanks, as always, to:

Alberto Lugo, one of Jim’s former students, for writing and recording original intro music; Tom Csatari for allowing us to use his band’s recording of “Woodstock” from their 2020 album, Garden; and Courtney Milavec for graphic design.

Find Tom’s work at uncivilizedtom.com, and on Instagram @banduncivilized.

Find Alberto’s work at djsynchro.weebly.com, and on Instagram @djsynchro.

Email us here with feedback or any other questions as well: thebrokencopier@substack.com.

Thanks for listening (and tell your friends)!