Teach For America Uses CloudLock to Increase Operational Efficiency

Teach For America, a national corps of top college graduates and professionals who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools, faced a challenge during their intensive summer training program. The program, which involves approximately 5,800 first-year teachers, required a solution that allowed for collaboration, homework completion, and document access anywhere and anytime. The challenge was particularly pronounced when it came to sharing documents externally during this training time. Although Teach For America has a limited number of laptops and workstations, most teachers choose to bring their own device to the summer training program, thus requiring the team to find a solution that is secure, externally shareable, and accessible. Additionally, after the summer training institute and every year when staff transition, Teach For America needs to audit hundreds of accounts to ensure that documents and sites remain secure.

Teach For America is a national corps of top college graduates and professionals who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity. Teach For America’s network for the 2012-13 school year includes more than 10,000 teachers in 46 regions across the country, and nearly 28,000 alumni working in education and many other sectors to create the systemic changes that will help end educational inequity. The organization has a total of 2,300 employees.