As a new Saga Fellow, I wondered about how much support I would receive inside and outside the classroom–especially since I work remotely.

What does it take to be a star? For ninth-grader Genora Gray, who attends Anacostia High School in Washington, DC, the answers are down-to-earth.

Saga Education sat down with Lindsay Lopez, an AmeriCorps member in Broward County (FL), to talk about what it's really like to serve with Saga.

As a Saga Fellow, we go through an extensive training program focused on the best ways to teach and build relationships with our students. What I didn’t expect was that I would learn four key life lessons from them.

Coming from a home where education was a top priority, Kaila Epps set her goals toward college at an early age. She originally wanted to pursue medical school, but what began as an initial gap year of service changed the course of her professional career forever.

For our first segment of this series, we focused on Fellows that chose to take a break between their undergraduate and graduate studies. Known as a gap year, this space has allowed for Fellows like Jourdan Vann and Elizabeth Garcia to train and develop important teaching skills, build personal connections, and gain insight into themselves—and the communities they serve—through the shared experience of tutoring in underserved schools.