Careers at NCTR
NCTR is a collaborative, mission-driven organization working to ensure that students of color have access to diverse, culturally responsive educators.
In addition to exemplifying our core values, our team emphasizes the importance of building personal relationships with one another and maintaining a strong work/life balance. We prioritize our culture to ensure our team members feel fully supported and satisfied in their roles.
Our Core Values
Continuous Learning
We intentionally revisit and expand our thinking by valuing, respecting, and centering the knowledge and experiences of individuals from historically undersupported communities. We expect ourselves to continue to learn from the education field, other teacher preparation programs, partners, and our colleagues. We are practitioners who are intentionally curious and value learning as catalysts for systemic change and improvement.
Justice
We recognize and respect all aspects of identity including but not limited to race. We work to see that all people are treated equitably and we acknowledge, mitigate, and repair harms when they occur. Furthermore, we are intentional about engaging those who face and experience oppression in our design and decision-making processes, recognizing that their insights are crucial for meaningful systems change. We carefully consider their local context, lived experiences, and the potential impact on their community in our collaborative efforts. By setting a standard where equity is centered in our work, we support the broader transformation of systems that perpetuate inequity.
Collaboration
Grounded in our commitment to inclusivity and recognizing the richness that diverse perspectives bring, we are purposeful in identifying who to involve in the decision-making processes. We intentionally focus on considering whose voice has been excluded and how to invite them to actively collaborate with us. We endeavor to actively seek to understand and honor the assets, knowledge, and expertise of our internal and external partners when finding ways to work together. We build relationships within our organization and with our partners by seeking connections, having brave and open conversations, and creating spaces to show up authentically to promote a shared sense of belonging.
Data Guided
We center the human experience in data collection and analysis. We seek out and find value in all forms of data and knowledge from teacher residency and other relevant programs. We use continuous improvement cycles to inform our work. We share our impact as well as the impact of partners and others to advance teacher preparation and the field of education.
A teacher resident of the Arizona Teacher Residency Program teaching a small group of students.