SAGA Education reviews

Thank you for sharing your insight and experience. We understand that compensation is a challenge. The Fellowship is designed as a service based opportunity and we let people know about the compensation before applying, during the application process and within their offer letters. We know the stipend is not a high rate of pay; we are looking for people who are driven to serve students who need them, for 10 months, and we are blessed to have 8-23 applicants per year for our positions. This job is not for everyone; but so many of those who do choose to serve with SAGA find the 10-month service among the highlights of their life, and would recommend it to a friend. In prior years, understaffing placed significant stress and pressure on Fellows (because of higher caseloads), and puts us in a position where we are under-serving our students. As a result, we decided to slightly over hire knowing that some natural attrition will occur. Furthermore, we are actively pursuing an additional school in New York City this fall and need additional capacity to serve this potential new site. Although the personalities and style of Site Directors vary, they are all deeply committed to the Fellows and to our students. Fellows rise to become highly effective instructors because of the Site Directors and our intensive daily feedback system. Each Fellow is formally observed roughly twice a week, and more frequently in 5 minute observations. This level of ongoing support is necessary, especially for Fellows who are new to education.