With
funding from MetLife Foundation, JFF has explored the challenges new
teachers face and their responses to those challenges, as well as how
the challenges intertwine with relationships among students, teachers,
and parents. Stretch, Bend, and Flex documents the experiences of
first-year teachers who graduated from the Urban Teacher Training
Collaborative’s Master of Arts in Teaching program at Tufts in 2002.
Tuft created the Collaborative in 1999 in conjunction with two pilot
schools in Boston, the Boston Arts Academy and Fenway High School. It
is a school-based program that reflects the commitment of the partners
to developing effective, collegial, and reform-minded teachers for
urban schools.
