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About National Center for Grow Your Own

The National Center for Grow Your Own (NCGYO) is a 501c3 non-profit organization which provides technical assistance to state education agencies and local education agencies (school districts) that are interested in launching or expanding “Grow Your Own” (GYO) programs and registered apprenticeships for aspiring teachers, lead teachers and principals. GYO and registered apprenticeships in teaching are able to help address staff shortages and build long-term teacher and school leader pipelines by removing financial barriers. Our founder created the "Grow Your Own" work in Tennessee in his previous role as the Chief of Human Capital for the Tennessee Department of Education. In addition, he led the application process to the U.S. Department of Labor to establish the occupation of a K-12 teacher as eligible for apprenticeship.