Here to make a difference for Arizona teachers
Our goal at Tucson Values Teachers is to raise awareness of Arizona’s teacher workforce crisis while also providing programs that offer teachers professional and financial support and that give community members a way to show that they care.
Please join us and honor all of those teachers who are developing today’s students to become tomorrow’s workforce, community leaders, and citizens.
2025 Teacher Discount Card
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Join us for a day of golf!
Fore the Love of Tee-chers is scheduled for Sunday, April 6th at 9:00AM!
Teacher Appreciation Week Recap
We honored five Southern Arizona educators during Teacher Appreciation Week with the Teacher Excellence Award.
Teachers in Industry
Teachers in Industry is the innovative business-education partnership that places experienced classroom teachers in your workforce during the summer.
Learn MoreWhy we do this
Teachers have a powerful and lasting influence on the students they teach – more than any other aspect of schooling. Yet today’s teachers are challenged like never before.
Fewer teachers are entering the profession and fewer are staying. Arizona is losing more teachers than it is producing from its three universities. Nearly one in four teachers leaves teaching in the first year, and more than 40 percent are gone after just three years.
Not only are teachers underpaid, they also feel they aren’t valued or respected by the community, that they’re not trusted to do their jobs without micromanagement, and that the time commitment is overwhelming. It’s time to change that!
Sources: ASU Morrison Institute 2017 study; TVT 2015 Teacher Workforce Study, MAP AZ Dashboard
