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25 years ago, @provcollege took a chance and opened a two-year teacher preparation grad school program. You do not need to have been an education major during undergrad to participate, and the program is recognized for licensure in MA and RI and other reciprocal states.
How it works: Student cohorts live on the PC campus for two summers and do extensive training before teaching at a Catholic school in MA or RI for two full school years. You apply to participating Catholic schools, interview, pray you get hired, and are provided housing and an instant community of faith. While you work, you receive a stipend of your pay and the other half which goes toward your degree is automatically paid to PC, leaving you on graduation day without debt and a Masters Degree (mine in secondary education.
Since its inception in 2000, over 430 teachers have graduated and transformed thousands of students lives in over 70 Catholic schools. I am immensely proud to be a graduate of Providence College’s PACT 9 cohort, (enrolled in ‘09, Class of ‘11) and remain close with my “Pactinas” and first school community @jpiihyannis
Big thank you to Brother Pat Carey for creating this program, to my former principal and now PACT Director Chris Keavy @ckeavy31 for giving me my start, and to my @saintmichaelscollege advisor and Spanish Profesora, Carolyn Lukens-Olson, and Fr. Brian Cummings for introducing me to the program. I had no idea what I would do when I graduated college, but they pointed me in a direction that would change the trajectory of my entire life. Let’s keep this program going and I’ll see you at the PACT 2050 reunion. 🖤🤍
Where it all begins: https://pact.providence.edu
Go Friars!
How it works: Student cohorts live on the PC campus for two summers and do extensive training before teaching at a Catholic school in MA or RI for two full school years. You apply to participating Catholic schools, interview, pray you get hired, and are provided housing and an instant community of faith. While you work, you receive a stipend of your pay and the other half which goes toward your degree is automatically paid to PC, leaving you on graduation day without debt and a Masters Degree (mine in secondary education.
Since its inception in 2000, over 430 teachers have graduated and transformed thousands of students lives in over 70 Catholic schools. I am immensely proud to be a graduate of Providence College’s PACT 9 cohort, (enrolled in ‘09, Class of ‘11) and remain close with my “Pactinas” and first school community @jpiihyannis
Big thank you to Brother Pat Carey for creating this program, to my former principal and now PACT Director Chris Keavy @ckeavy31 for giving me my start, and to my @saintmichaelscollege advisor and Spanish Profesora, Carolyn Lukens-Olson, and Fr. Brian Cummings for introducing me to the program. I had no idea what I would do when I graduated college, but they pointed me in a direction that would change the trajectory of my entire life. Let’s keep this program going and I’ll see you at the PACT 2050 reunion. 🖤🤍
Where it all begins: https://pact.providence.edu
Go Friars!
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