ISTA Aspiring Educators' annual community partnership event is Outreach to Teach (O2T). This annual event rewards a deserving public school with a makeover. Aspiring Educators, in partnership with education community members, spends a day cleaning, painting, decorating, landscaping and more!
Outreach to Teach 2026 Nomination
ISTA Aspiring Educators organization seeks your valuable input as we begin our search for the school for our annual Outreach to Teach project. The tentative date for this project is April 11, 2026. Most of our work will be focused indoors, but weather permitting; we may be able to accomplish some outdoor tasks.
Selection Criteria:
- Feasibility of tasks to be completed in one day by volunteers
- School demographics and needs
- Community support available
- Accessibility to school from major highways
- Accommodation availability for volunteers traveling great distances
- Variety of projects to distribute volunteers throughout campus
- School corporation and local association investment to the project
A school within ISTA AE Region 5 will be selected.
After sharing this information with your District Council and having decided on a school that you would like to nominate, please describe the needs of the building as specifically as possible.
Complete the nomination form:
THANK YOU
Thank you to all the volunteers who made Outreach to Teach 2025 at Southwestern Elementary School a success! View photos from O2T 2025 on Flickr.