April 26, 2025
Public Education Foundation's (PEF) ongoing efforts to recruit and train teachers of color is paying big dividends. A prospective new teacher has returned to Orchard Knob Elementary School, where she was a student not that long ago. Shaquita Stalmaker is living the dream, training to be a teacher in the school she attended through fifth grade. She is part of the Public Education Foundation's teacher residency program, Project Inspire.

Public Education Foundation's (PEF) ongoing efforts to recruit and train teachers of color is paying big dividends. A prospective new teacher has returned to Orchard Knob Elementary School, where she was a student not that long ago.
Shaquita Stalmaker is living the dream, training to be a teacher in the school she attended through fifth grade. She is part of the Public Education Foundation's teacher residency program, Project Inspire.