Tow-Yick taking post with national Teach for America

HEATHER TOW-YICK, Teach for America - Rhode Island executive director, said she is leaving her position early next year to take a position with the national Teach for America organization.  / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY
HEATHER TOW-YICK, Teach for America - Rhode Island executive director, said she is leaving her position early next year to take a position with the national Teach for America organization. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

PROVIDENCE – Heather Tow-Yick is leaving her position as executive director with Teach for America – Rhode Island early next year to take a position with the national Teach for America organization.
In Teach for America – Rhode Island’s fall newsletter, Tow-Yick said a search for a new executive director is under way.
Tow-Yick, in an email, said her new title will be vice president, prospect & early admit engagement.
“I’ll be building out a new team at Teach For America,” she wrote.
Tow-Yick initiated the Teach for America program in Rhode Island in 2010. It has grown steadily over the years.
In her position as executive director for Teach for America – Rhode Island, Tow-Yick oversees a program that places 30 teachers a year into some of the state’s neediest schools.
Tow-Yick explained that the national position is a new one, and she will build upon work already happening on a pilot basis, such as connecting with individuals early in their college career who are thinking about teaching.

Tow-Yick said she will continue to be based in Rhode Island in her new role. She said she felt Teach for America Rhode Island was on a “strong and solid footing,” enabling her to pursue the new opportunity. Teach for America has approximately 150 alumni in Rhode Island.
She said the “entrepreneurial nature” of the new job attracted her to it.

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