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TEACHER QUALITY
AND RETENTION
PROGRAM (TQRP)
From its first Summer Institute in 2009, the Teacher Quality and Retention Program (TQRP) has provided high-caliber training and mentoring to new and aspiring teachers from publicly-supported HBCUs and PBIs across the country. The result of lessons learned from a 2006 Gates School Reform grant, as well as the Teacher Prep Program Pilot in 2008, TQRP has emerged into a robust, research-based program that has influenced over 600 program fellows over the last 11 years across 20 different states and 45 TMCF member schools. TQRP fellows have impacted over 31,000 K-12 students in high-need urban and rural areas across the nation. In the year 2020 alone, TQRP fellows have educated over 3,400 K-12 students across the nation in 47 cities, 17 states, 40 districts and 40 Title I Schools.
The 2023 TQRP cohort features over 80 new and aspiring Black teachers, 33 percent of which are Black males, representing over 60 cities, and 25 HBCUs, with an average GPA of 3.6. This includes undergraduate students from HBCUs who are preparing to teach in K-12, in-service K-12 teachers who graduated from an HBCU and are in their first three years of teaching, and Black male K-12 teachers in their first five years of teaching.
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SIGNATURE PROGRAMS