Welcome!

If you are from a minority background, are from another country, or you speak the language of one of Rhode Island's many immigrant communities, we hope you are interested in becoming a teacher! We've designed this website to help you succeed on the journey to becoming a teacher in the public schools in Rhode Island.

This website offers help in several ways:

• by presenting the voices of others like yourself who have taken this journey into teaching and want to share their success stories;
• by presenting explanations of the current pathways to teaching;
• by presenting information about how to pay for teacher education with financial assistance;
• by presenting links to all of the schools offering teacher education programs in Rhode Island ;
• by providing links to the Rhode Island Department of Education's website, which presents information about the criteria for certification;
• by providing information and links for a wide range of services, programs, and information sources that help with everything from preparing to take required tests, to improving English fluency, to finding a local organization that provides advocacy and mentoring. This information is all assembled together under the category of support networks;