With the end of the school year, Teach for America Milwaukee has wrapped up the second cohort of its Teacher Pathway Program.

Organizers say this year was even better than the last and the program is on an upward trajectory. 

Teach for America Milwaukee’s Teacher Pathway Program is designed to introduce Milwaukee high school students to the teaching profession through dual-enrollment college courses.

According to Franz Meyer, director of community programming at TFA Milwaukee, the number of participants nearly doubled this school year, and almost all will be earning credits for their participation in the program. 

Of the nearly 140 students across Milwaukee participating in the program, 10 seniors graduating this year have already committed to pursuing education in college. 

“Instead of that being one student saying that they want to study education at one school, these students are now one of 10 that know one another,” Meyer said. 

Final conference

For the final conference of the year, program participants from Milwaukee Academy of Science, Hmong American Peace Academy, Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy, Pathways High School and St. Anthony High School gathered in University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Lubar Hall and had a full day of sessions dedicated to questions they had about becoming educators. 

To wrap up the day, students were randomly assigned to small groups with students from other schools and asked to create a presentation on why they should teach. 

In these presentations students analyzed the financial sustainability of teaching in addition to its importance and how they could live happy, balanced lives as educators. 

One student’s experience

Virginia Madrigal-Duran is a junior at St. Anthony High School and said she is already committed to studying education because being a part of the program helped her develop as a person. 

“Honestly, I only joined the program for the extra credit,” she said. “But I got to the field assignment and started being able to help, and it’s made me want to pursue education.” 

Madrigal-Duran said during her field experience she was able to help a student with a language barrier, and that made her feel good to know she made a difference.

Meyer said field experience looks different for each school, but it allows students to learn about education by doing it through tutoring, shadowing or just helping out in classrooms. 

Meyer said one of the most important things to come out of this year’s program is a partnership with the Center for Urban Teaching. 

The partnership will allow students committed to education more opportunities like mentorship, support and resources as they navigate college. 

For more information

Click here to learn more about the Teacher Pathway Program.

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Update: Teacher Pathway Program serves 140 students this school year 

by PrincessSafiya Byers, Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
June 19, 2025

<h1>Update: Teacher Pathway Program serves 140 students this school year </h1> <p class="byline">by PrincessSafiya Byers, Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service <br />June 19, 2025</p> <p>With the end of the school year, Teach for America Milwaukee has wrapped up the second cohort of its Teacher Pathway Program.</p> <p>Organizers say this year was even better than the last and the program is on an upward trajectory.&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://milwaukeenns.org/2025/02/11/how-one-program-is-reaching-the-next-generation-of-teachers/">Teach for America Milwaukee’s Teacher Pathway Program</a> is designed to introduce Milwaukee high school students to the teaching profession through dual-enrollment college courses.</p> <p>According to Franz Meyer, director of community programming at TFA Milwaukee, the number of participants nearly doubled this school year, and almost all will be earning credits for their participation in the program.&nbsp;</p> <p>Of the nearly 140 students across Milwaukee participating in the program, 10 seniors graduating this year have already committed to pursuing education in college.&nbsp;</p> <p>“Instead of that being one student saying that they want to study education at one school, these students are now one of 10 that know one another,” Meyer said.&nbsp;</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Final conference</strong></h2> <p>For the final conference of the year, program participants from Milwaukee Academy of Science, Hmong American Peace Academy, Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy, Pathways High School and St. Anthony High School gathered in University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Lubar Hall and had a full day of sessions dedicated to questions they had about becoming educators.&nbsp;</p> <p>To wrap up the day, students were randomly assigned to small groups with students from other schools and asked to create a presentation on why they should teach.&nbsp;</p> <p>In these presentations students analyzed the financial sustainability of teaching in addition to its importance and how they could live happy, balanced lives as educators.&nbsp;</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">One student's experience</h2> <p>Virginia Madrigal-Duran is a junior at St. Anthony High School and said she is already committed to studying education because being a part of the program helped her develop as a person.&nbsp;</p> <p>“Honestly, I only joined the program for the extra credit,” she said. “But I got to the field assignment and started being able to help, and it’s made me want to pursue education.”&nbsp;</p> <p>Madrigal-Duran said during her field experience she was able to help a student with a language barrier, and that made her feel good to know she made a difference.</p> <p>Meyer said field experience looks different for each school, but it allows students to learn about education by doing it through tutoring, shadowing or just helping out in classrooms.&nbsp;</p> <p>Meyer said one of the most important things to come out of this year's program is a partnership with the <a href="https://cfut.org">Center for Urban Teaching.</a>&nbsp;</p> <p>The partnership will allow students committed to education more opportunities like mentorship, support and resources as they navigate college.&nbsp;</p> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" /> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">For more information</h2> <p><a href="https://www.teachforamerica.org/milwaukee">Click here to learn more about the Teacher Pathway Program.</a></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://milwaukeenns.org/2025/06/19/update-teacher-pathway-program-serves-140-students-this-school-year/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://milwaukeenns.org&quot;&gt;Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/milwaukeenns.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/cropped-NNS-Favicon.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://milwaukeenns.org/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=116340&amp;amp;ga4=G-HGM4XK3QCM&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://milwaukeenns.org/2025/06/19/update-teacher-pathway-program-serves-140-students-this-school-year/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/milwaukeenns.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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