Registration is now open for the 2025 EDGE Cohort.
The application deadline is February 20, 2025. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so apply soon for the best chance of acceptance.
Application Requirements:
- A degree in math, science, history, or English is preferred (or other STEM field). Otherwise a general degree with a minimum of 12 math, 16 science, 16 history, or 12 English credits.
- Interest in a full-time teaching career in the Chicago community schools and yeshivas.
2025-2027 Cohort Application Process
Submit the following application items by email to [email protected], or by mail to EDGE 3050 W. Touhy Ave. Chicago IL 60645.
- Resume
- Three references with contact information (at least one professional reference)
- Transcripts of all relevant university coursework, including degrees and/or evidence of requisite coursework in your discipline (including AP scores).
- Two written essays, detailed below
Please note that acceptance into EDGE is subject to successful placement in a Jewish school, which will be determined after the application is submitted.
Application Essays:
The admissions committee is interested in getting to know each applicant better. In answering the essay questions, consider some of the following qualities of a professional educator as possible approaches or frameworks to your response:
- learning from obstacles
- challenging a belief
- solving a complex problem
- personal growth
- what captivates you
- your personal and professional growth as part of a changing profession
- your contribution to the greater profession
Each essay should be 500 – 1000 words each.
Here are the 3 essays to complete and submit with your application:
1. Please select one of the three questions below.
A. What is impossible to do in secondary math, science, history, or English education today, but if it became possible, would fundamentally change what you would do as a professional classroom teacher?
B. Select a controversial issue in secondary math, science, history, or English education and suggest a solution.
C. What do you see as the greatest threat to math, science, history, or English education in our Chicago community schools today? How would you address this threat?
2. What are your expectations for the EDGE program? If possible, incorporate how you hope EDGE will help you achieve a realization of the subject of your response to the second question.
Questions?
Contact us at [email protected] or 773.649.5355