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Hello, I’m Sydney Manning and I am interning for TAF this autumn. I am currently a sophomore at the University of Washington majoring in psychology. I’m interested in neurobiology and I would [...]

Nada Oakley – Excellence and Love By: Carlito Umali In my senior Buddhist Philosophy class, I heard my professor say, “You become a teacher because you cannot thank one enough.” The teacher that [...]

Erin Gruwell began student teaching in 1994 at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California.  She was assigned to a classroom of low-performing and troubled students. When racism became [...]

Marva Collins is a hero for her influence and activism in education. Collins was born in Alabama in 1936.  She eventually worked as a substitute teacher in Chicago where the deficiencies in the [...]

George Washington Carver was born in Diamond, Missouri, around 1864. Carver learned to read and write going on to earn his high school diploma from Minneapolis High school in Kansas. He was [...]

Today is our first Model Monday!  Each Monday during our Back to School Campaign, we will be honoring one of our Educational role models by featuring them on our Blog and on Pinterest.  Our first [...]

TAF and TAF Academy students are being noticed for their hard work, passion, and innovation. Near the end of the school-year, Seattle Urban League Young Professionals (SULYP) hosted a Leadership [...]

Sherry and the TAF holiday committee have made sure that there is no place like TAF for the holidays! While encouraging all staff members to contribute decorations that celebrate and honor their [...]

AJ and Paulo, two sixth graders from TAF Academy, led me on a tour of their school recently.   Before embarking on our tour, TAF’s supplemental service coordinator, Amanda, reminded them of the [...]

Teacher: “An electron is a subatomic particle that is negatively charged” Class:  “YES!” “I knew it!” “Sweet!” Me: “…Wow” I’m new to TAF and visited my first TechStart classroom at Mount View [...]