The San Francisco Bay Area is the founding region of our Teacher Residency. Please review the program details for this region below.
Residents in our Bay Area program pursue a California Preliminary Single Subject Teaching Credential. You can choose from the following subject areas:
During the application process, you will share preferences for both the credential you want to pursue and the locations of your placement. You will be placed in schools according to preference and the availability of a Cooperating Teacher in your related content area. Our program current places Residents in schools in the following cities:
Additional locations may be available at partner schools.
The Summit Learning Teacher Residency provides an affordable and supportive path to a rewarding and successful teaching career. In California, we currently offer coursework towards a California Preliminary Single Subject Teaching Credential. We are pursuing partnership opportunities that could allow you to apply your coursework towards some of the requirements of a Master’s degree upon completion of the program. Additional details will be available during the 2019-20 school year.
Tuition and certification costs for Residents enrolled in the program during the 2020-21 school year:
$20,000
$14,000
Access to needs-based scholarships
Information regarding loan options
You should plan to spend approximately $750 in fees prior to the start of the program and in the first month of the program. These include fees for required credentialing exams (CSET and CBEST), fingerprinting and background checks, a TB test, and other admissions and credentialing requirements. Additional fees may be incurred if you need to take any exams multiple times.
We do not want cost to be a concern for candidates who are dedicated to and passionate about teaching. We award a limited number of needs-based scholarships towards the program tuition.
To be eligible to enroll in the Teacher Residency, candidates need to complete the following testing requirements:
We strongly suggest you get started on these testing requirements as early as possible, so you are not delayed in enrolling and joining our program!
Molly brings 10 years of experience in education to her work leading the Bay Area region of the Teacher Residency. She has led programs to train and support new educators since 2013 and collaborated on the design and launch of the Residency program at Summit in 2016. She holds a Master’s in Learning and Organizational Change from Northwestern University and a Bachelor’s in Child Development and Community Health from Tufts University. In her free time, you’ll find Molly exploring the Bay, traveling to new places, and enjoying time with family and friends.
Prior to joining the Summit Learning Teacher Residency, Grace served as a principal, assistant principal, and teacher for ten years in the Dallas/Fort Worth Area. Grace holds a Master’s in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Texas at Arlington and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Florida. She enjoys watching sports, spending time with her children, and cheering them on in all of their after-school activities.
Emily joined Summit as an English teacher in 2013 — just as Summit transitioned its instructional model. In 2017, she joined the Teaching Residency as a founding mentor to inspire, educate, and support a new generation of educators. When not focusing on figuring out how to communicate strategies for personalized learning to new teachers, she enjoys baking, traveling, and learning new languages.