As Relay’s provost, Brent Maddin advises on the vision for our curriculum and institutional research and leads programmatic innovations. From 2003-2005, Maddin served as a founding teacher at I.D.E.A. College Prep—a public charter school dedicated to getting students from the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas into top colleges. Maddin moved to Texas from Louisiana where, as a 1999 Teach For America (TFA) corps member, he taught high school science in his TFA placement school for four years. During his six years in the classroom, he trained new teachers at TFA Summer Institutes, TNTP content seminars, and regional science learning teams. He also co-wrote a national chemistry curriculum for TNTP. In 2002, Maddin received his National Board Certification.