Summerbridge Breakthrough Alumni Network Inc

Summerbridge/Breakthrough Alumni Network is a community of graduates and former staff of Summerbridge and Breakthrough "students teaching students" model programs. Its primary purpose is to support minority teacher recruitment and retention efforts of independent and charter schools and to provide college and career readiness resources to the racially and culturally diverse network of over 20,000 Summerbridge and Breakthrough program alumni.

The Summerbridge Breakthrough Alumni Network (SBAN) is the parent organization within which TCPI and other programs exist that are committed to having a positive impact on education, youth development and social justice. The SBAN Teacher of Color Prep Institute (TCPI) seeks to grow a teacher of color workforce that is robust, knowledgeable and diverse as well as to develop a professional pathway for teachers of color who want to improve their craft and become lifelong educators. The TCPI program consists of three critical elements: (1) recruiting aspiring teachers and putting them through a rigorous curriculum that is designed to develop them into Exceptional Teachers and Change Agents, (2) partnering with schools to not only create opportunities for our graduates but also to help those schools become more inclusive, and (3) supporting these teachers as they become an established and integral part of the schools, thus resulting in greater retention.