TSTT students participate in 8 years of teacher training and workshops beginning in 9th grade through college.
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Less than 15% of U.S. teachers are African American or Hispanic.
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More than 35% of U.S. students are members of a minority.
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Over 1/2 of 3 year olds, our future students are children of color.
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Only 2% of 3.5 million U.S. teachers are male teachers of color.
Meet The Staff & Board
Our Founder
Dr. Bettye H. Perkins is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Today’s Students Tomorrow’s Teachers (TSTT).
Dr. Perkins, an educator and former IBM executive, has spent the past 17 years developing and implementing educational programs to enhance the academic achievement of young people in New York and throughout the northeast. She is the recipient of many awards and proclamations acknowledging her outstanding achievement in educational leadership including the Special Parent Honoree Award from the New York State Education Department and the Pathfinder Award from the New York State Association of Women in Administration. Most recently, Dr. Perkins received the Milton A. Williams, Jr. Scholars in Education Award from the Westchester Children’s Museum.
Dr. Perkins earned a Bachelor’s degree in Education from North Carolina A&T State University, a Masters Degree in Education Administration from Pace University, and a Doctorate Degree in Educational Leadership and Urban Policy from Fordham University, where she documented TSTT as a new Regional Collaborative Pre-collegiate Minority Teacher Recruitment Model. Her work was also published as a best practice for Human Capital Management Strategies by the American Association of School Personnel Administrators (AASPA) in July of 2009.
An avid tennis player, Dr. Perkins and her husband, John, live in Hartsdale, NY. They have enjoyed mentoring two teenage brothers, Christopher and Jamal, for the past ten years.
The Board of Directors
Paulette R. Argrette
PRA Enterprise
Lawrence Ault
Citi
Vice President/Treasurer
Deborah Fay
Entergy
Nathaniel M. Fields
Urban Resource Institute
Kay Wright Lewis, Ph.D.
Independent Scholar
Board Chair
Andrea Randolph
MBIA, Inc.
Clarence Williams
Mariner Investment Group, LLC
Bettye H. Perkins, Ed.D.
Today's Students Tomorrow's Teachers
President/Secretary
Board of Advisors
Andrea Randolph
Chief Technology Officer, MBIA
Jane Cecil
Founder, Jandon Foundation
Janice Huff
Meteorologist, NBC Universal, WNBC
Josh Greenburg
Senior Partner (Retired)
Kaye Scholer LLP
Headquarters Team
Edwin Bowman
Director of Human Resources
Walter Dawkins
Director of Development
Thomas Grayman
Chief Operating Officer
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Jessica Hilton-Reader
Administrative Manager
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Beverly Mosquitta
Accountant
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Cynthia Reid, Ph.D.
Program Director
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Linda Taylor
Data Base and Quality Administrator
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Rhetta Vinson
Director of Marketing and Communications
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Bettye H. Perkins, Ed.D.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
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Regional Program Management Team
| Jami Racioppa | Utica, New York |
| Charlene Kyle | Lower Westchester County, New York |
| Sedalia Ledbetter | Prince William County, Virginia |
| Barbara Moscova | Bridgeport, Connecticut |
| Donna Pappalardo | Greater Boston Region, Massachusetts |
| Theresa Alejandro | Rockland, Sullivan and Ulster Counties, New York |
| Cynthia Reid, Ph.D. | Upper Westchester County, New York |
| Prudence Wilson | Rochester, New York |
| Erin Baffuto | Worcester, Massachusetts |
S&I 100 Index
The Social Impact Exchange has selected TSTT as a Member of the S&I 100, the National Index of High-Impact NonProfits!
Event Photos
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Program Progress
We serve 660 students in 44 high school districts and 21 partnering colleges & universities. Operating in four states: New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Virginia, there are 106 TSTT college graduates who have completed the eight year curriculum and are currently teaching in 9 states.