Mission:
1. To improve the educational outcomes of high achieving minority students by using the collective energies and expertise of former and prospective teachers to provide high school students time and space for self-cultivation and the pursuit of their intellectual passions.
2. To encourage talented undergraduates to enter into the teaching profession, to do so with an understanding of the many possibilities in teaching, and to do so in traditionally underserved communities.
We aim to pursue this mission through a summer institute that will bring high school students, undergraduate prospective teachers, and former teachers together in a program that breaks down traditional school roles and enables the individuals involved to learn more from each other than when given narrower responsibilites. We ask teachers to be students and students to be teachers.
Our project will draw from Stanford University's resources for a pilot program, but our long-term goal is to create a model that can be replicated at other colleges across the country.