Tag: Lee. A Tolbert Community Academy

Teach for America KC celebrating 10 years building entrepreneurs to fight education inequity

By Tommy Felts / November 6, 2018

Dividends from Teach for America KC swelled Rachel Foster’s development as a teacher and community member invested in Kansas City, the leader in innovation-driven education said. “I owe everything, it feels like, to Teach for America,” said Foster, Young Entrepreneurial Spirit program leader at Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy. “The fruits keep coming in for…

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KC entrepreneurial educator: ‘Zip code shouldn’t determine success’

By Tommy Felts / October 17, 2017

Entrepreneurship education should begin as early as kindergarten, said Rachel Foster. “The younger my students are, the more creative they are, and the less the world has had time to tell them that it’s ‘not possible’ or ‘you can’t do that,’” said Foster, entrepreneurship teacher at Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy. “If we are able…

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