(nctresidencies.org)

A teaching residency program here in Chattanooga is partnering with a national effort to recruit, develop and retain Black educators.

Project Inspire - run by Chattanooga’s Public Education Foundation - is participating in the Black Educators Initiative through the National Center for Teacher Residencies.

 

Mark Neal is the director of Project Inspire.

Jonathan Brown is a Project Inspire alum - and he now teaches first grade at Orchard Knob Elementary School.