-Addresses issues faced by change of career teachers, particularly fast track certification programs and immigrant teachers whose entry into the school systems is relatively abrupt; -Explores and highlights the impact of primary backgrounds and education on their engagement of students, their collaborations with the administration and parents as well as their receptivity to both formal and informal feedback from a range of constituents in the school system; -Focuses on high need inner city schools with a culturally diverse student body, which most state colleges and fast track alternative programs like the Teaching Fellows and Teach for America programs, serve.