“I talk about Breakthrough and every time, I cry…. because it has given me so much. I am starting a teaching career because of what I learned there, over the best summers of my life.”  - Bria Watson, Founding Teaching Fellow, Somerville Campus When a classmate...

"Breakthrough is a collection of memories and lessons that I carry into my classroom each year - a constant reminder of the community I wish to build and the relationships I desire to forge with students." - Kiara Boone, Breakthrough Teaching Fellow 2013 and 2014 In...

"At my interview, the program director asked me: how far are you willing to go for our kids? And I told her, I’ll put on a chicken suit if that’s what it takes to get them to learn. Later in the summer she told me that that was the moment when she hired me. And I...