Thank you for coming to Agape Management! As of January 2019, I am phasing out Agape Management. The new organization that I am building in its place is Educators Thriving. Please head here for the latest: www.EducatorsThriving.org
Why I do this work: The core
belief that drives me is the idea that every child is made in the image of God.
I believe that every child has infinite worth and value. And I believe that we
regularly and tragically fail to see the deep and powerful potential that
exists within the people - students, parents, teachers, other staff - who enter our schools each day. Given that, I believe that we must commit ourselves to creating classrooms, schools, and school systems that honor the worth and the potential of every person.A little about my bio: I grew up in the Bay Area and attended Stanford University. One
summer during college, I worked at the Breakthrough Collaborative in San
Francisco, which opened my eyes to educational inequity. That next summer,
seeking to learn more about our educational system, I got a job working at the
U.S. Department of Education in the Bush administration. During the 2008 presidential campaign, I volunteered on then-Senator Obama’s
education policy committee. After
Stanford, I went on to study education policy and politics at Cambridge University.
Convinced that educational inequity is the civil rights issue of our generation
and inspired to make change for young people in California, I joined Teach For
America in 2008 in Southern California. During my second year as a teacher, I was laid off
due to budget cuts, so I moved to Richmond to continue in the classroom as a
high school English teacher. The videos that you can see on this website were
captured during the first days of my fourth year in the classroom. Between 2012 and 2017, I was blessed to serve teachers all across Richmond as the leader of Teach For
America in that community. I am now pursuing a doctoral degree in education leadership at Harvard University.
Getting in touch: Feel free to email me at tyler@educatorsthriving.org. To be transparent, I work long hours, and so I have limited time to correspond regarding Agape Management. For that reason, I apologize in advance for any delay in getting back to you!
Gratitude: Thank you for what you do, God bless you, and keep going strong.