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Our recruitment team will be traveling to colleges and universities all over the nation in search of top talent for Match Corps. Click here to see where they will be traveling this year!
Match Corps, an AmeriCorps program, is a one-year urban education fellowship. Recent college graduates from top universities across the country commit a year to closing the achievement gap in Boston, one student at a time. Match Corps Members tutor small groups of students in grades 1-12 and partner closely with families. Tutors are integral members of high-performing school teams in some of the best schools in America and discover what it takes to change the lives of kids.
$15,000 living allowance
$5,775 education award (upon successful completion of service term)
Subsidized housing with other Corps members (offered on a first come, first serve basis; not guaranteed to all Corps members)
Eligibility for health insurance coverage
Student loan forbearance (on qualifying loans)
Experience at a nationally-recognized organization
Lifelong friendships with other Corps members
Preparation for Life after Match Corps:
- If you would like to become an outstanding classroom teacher in a high performing urban school, you may apply now to enroll in the Sposato Graduate School of Education during your Match Corps year. If you're interested, click here to learn more about Sposato and the opportunity it offers.
If you're not planning on teaching, we will support you with job placement or graduate school admissions. Many of our alumni pursue careers in medicine, law, business, government, the non-profit sector, and other fields. Match Corps has a strong alumni network eager to help you as you embark upon your career.
Learn more through our Frequently Asked Questions.
Match Corps is a one-year urban education fellowship focused on our tutoring and mentoring program. This is our original, flagship tutoring program which began in the fall of 2004.
Elite recent college graduates from top universities across the country commit one year to public service designed to close the achievement gap in Boston, one student at a time. It is possibly the most competitive such program in the nation, more competitive than admission to the Harvard Graduate School of Education or Teach For America.
Our school's goal is clear: success in college and beyond for each student. Most of our students will become the first in their families to achieve this milestone. Therefore, the demands on our students, teachers, staff and the Match Corps tutors, are intense.
Corps members are assigned a personal caseload of 6 to 10 students at the beginning of the year. Match Corps members work with their students in small-group or individual tutorials over the course of each day, providing close academic support, mainly in math and English Language Arts, and supporting habits that foster the academic success of their tutees. Unlike traditional tutoring models that happen outside of school hours and only target failing students, all students at the Match Charter Public School participate in stand-alone class periods of tutoring that are built into the school day.
Match Corps members work relentlessly to build in-depth relationships that transcend tutorial boundaries with their students, acting as mentors, and helping their students reach specific goals. Corps members maintain close contact with students' parents and guardians, building the strong bridge between home and school that is an important part of the Match philosophy. The school environment is small enough that every Corps member knows every student by name.
Corps members receive compensation for their services and housing is available to interested Corps members for a fee. After their year of employment, some Corps members remain in the field of K-12 education and direct service with youth, others go back to medical, law or other graduate school, and another subset gets involved in public policy or education reform.
Match Corps is often compared to Teach For America or City Year. Like those programs, Match Corps allows idealistic and dedicated young people to invest their time and energy in helping disadvantaged youth. Match takes a "No Excuses" - high expectations, "whatever it takes" - approach to pursuing measurable gains in student achievement. The biggest contrast between the Match Corps and other programs is depth over breadth. First-year teachers in a program like TFA interact with more students at one time, and spend most of their time trying to master classroom management - getting kids focused and working hard. By contrast, Match Corps members are able to focus their attention on the learning needs of each of their students from the first day onward.
Through the Match Corps, we challenge stereotypes every day. Some people believe that urban students lack the ability or discipline to become outstanding critical thinkers and successful high school and college graduates. Some also say that many college graduates lack a sense of responsibility toward their communities.
We know this is not true. Every day, we do what many consider impossible--we bring together idealistic, dedicated college graduates and hard-working, disciplined urban youth. We have created a program that allows Match students to achieve what so many consider impossible for low-income urban youth: success in college and beyond.
Learn More about our Match Corps members:
- Take a look at the 2015-2016 Match Corps rosters to see where this year's tutors attended college:
- Check out our Match Corps Alumni Directory to learn about the paths that Match Corps Members take after their year of service:
Discover other opportunities:
- Want to get involved while you're still in college? Here are some opportunities to serve with our mission-aligned partners for current college students:
- In the Boston Area:
- During Summer Vacation:
- Look into post-graduate opportunities offered by these mission-aligned partners working alongside us in the education reform movement: