The organization was founded by Adam Geller, who himself was a Teach For America teacher starting in 2006 after he developed the idea for a blog community when he could not find an appropriate place to create a blog to update family and friends about his experiences.
Teach For Us was originally launched under the name TeachFor.Us, but in April 2010, Teach For Us filed with the Missouri Secretary of State and incorporated under the current name as a nonprofit corporation in the state of Missouri.
The site also shows above-average exposure to African American internet users and has a high index of college and graduate-level-educated visitors.
Facebook was still limited to a select set of college campuses, and Twitter was not yet a household term.
[12] As such, Teach For Us made the decision to transition to WordPress 3.0 in 2010 in order to meet the technical needs of running a network of blogs while allowing users a more familiar experience found with WordPress.