Kelsie Johnson '10 is putting her T-shirts to good use

Kelsie Johnson ’10 shared her Horned Frog pride — and her extensive collection of TCU shirts — with her class of second graders at the Houston-area school where she is teaching for Teach for America.

Kelsie writes: My classroom theme is the "Fantastic Frogs," allowing me to put all my Frog paraphernalia to good use. Today was College T-shirt Day at my school and my college-bound second graders didn't have T-shirts to wear. Naturally, I put my millions of free TCU shirts to good use and brought all 25 of my students a shirt to wear today.

Kelsie was the TCU student body president last year.

According to the organization’s website, Teach For America's network has grown to over 28,000 individuals. They are one of the nation’s largest providers of teachers for low-income communities, and have been recognized for building a pipeline of leaders committed to educational equity and excellence.

The 2010 corps is made up of more than 4,500 recent college graduates, graduate students, and professionals from all 50 states, over 500 colleges and universities, and a variety of career backgrounds.

This school year, more than 8,200 first- and second-year corps members are working to raise the achievement and change the life trajectories of over 500,000 students in low-income communities.