Success Stories

  • “I feel somewhat like a doctor, that what I’m doing is a matter of life and death,” says Marilyn Rhames, a third grade teacher at Chicago’s Sherman School of Excellence. “Education means the difference between a good quality of life for these kids in the future or enduring suffering and poverty for the rest of their lives.”

  • Ellen Lau knew she wanted to teach in a high-need school – but she also knew she needed some direct exposure to the challenges high-poverty schools face. To get that experience, she signed up for ACI’s High-Need Schools Internship while she attended Knox College.