The K-12 Teachers Alliance (KTA) is dedicated to supporting K-12 educators and administrators in their professional growth. KTA serves as a key connector, helping you find high-quality, relevant, and affordable graduate programs that align with your career goals in the K-12 landscape.
The success of this approach is clearly demonstrated by the market dominance of KTA’s university providers, which consistently rank high in awarding graduate teacher master’s degrees among private, not-for-profit institutions.
KTA’s Role in Finding Your Best Program
KTA has developed a highly successful, focused model to address the common barriers to earning an advanced degree faced by K-12 educators:
- Accessibility for Working Educators: KTA identifies and connects educators with universities offering flexible graduate programs (e.g., many are online). As such, working practitioners can continue to be in the classroom while earning an advanced degree to maintain their employment and ability to positively affect students.
- Career-Focused Relevance: KTA ensures that university programs offered are continually updated to meet the current and future needs of K-12 education. This means your studies will focus on practical, in-demand areas like:
- Instructional best practices
- Curriculum development
- Educational leadership
- Affordability: KTA recognizes the financial constraints of educators and negotiates with the universities to secure special tuition discounts and scholarship opportunities for K-12 educators. This makes advanced degrees significantly more affordable, ensuring that financial concerns don’t limit your professional potential.
Demonstrating the Impact
KTA’s model directly benefits educators by creating a network of top-tier, yet accessible, programs. Here’s what the data shows about our providers:
Market Leadership: With regard to the graduate teacher education market, KTA’s university provider partners hold a leading position nationwide. For example, in the last reporting cycle:
- Four universities ranked first or second for private non-profit graduate master’s degrees in their states.
- Three universities ranked first for private non-profit graduate master’s degrees in their states.
| University | State | Market Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gardner-Webb University | North Carolina | 26% | #1 |
| CSP Global | Minnesota | 33% | #1 |
| University of Saint Joseph | Connecticut | 23% | #1 |
| Concordia University Chicago | Illinois | 20% | #2 |
*Data from Lightcast 2024 Preliminary Dataset Emsi databases.
This widespread success demonstrates that by focusing on K-12 educator needs: enhancing resources and educational pathways, and improving teacher quality, KTA and our university providers become the preferred destination for educators like you, seeking to enhance their careers and create positive impacts on their students.