Boettcher Teachers Program

Make a difference where it matters most.

Established in 2003, the Boettcher Teachers Program is a dual licensure and Master’s degree fellowship designed to prepare a highly-skilled workforce of professional educators who make a difference in the individual lives of low-income students and communities and the schools that serve them. Boettcher Teaching Fellows are specially trained and endorsed to work with culturally and linguistically diverse students, and earn a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Denver, as well as a Colorado teaching license from the Colorado Department of Education.

The program takes five years to complete, and fellows are awarded full tuition in exchange for a committment to teach in low-income schools in the metro Denver area. In the first year of the program, the teacher residency year, fellows receive a stipend and complete licensure requirements. In years two through five, they are full-time, salaried teachers. By the end of year three, fellows have earned their Master’s degree; and by the end of year five, they have satisfied their teaching service obligation.

The Boettcher Teachers Program is generously funded by the Boettcher Foundation, which teamed with the Public Education & business Coalition (PEBC), the University of Denver College of Education, and two Colorado school districts, Mapleton Public Schools and Adams 12 Five Star Schools, to create this innovative teacher preparation program.

For more information on the Boettcher Teachers Program, please visit http://boettcherteachers.org.