Tips for finding educational partners and assembling a team

To reach a wider audience and engage more students, recruiting partners from other schools, community colleges, and professional psychology organizations to join you in hosting an engagement can be helpful. Use the links below to jump to tips for finding educational partners and assembling a team based on your needs and target audience.

• High schools and high school psychology teachers
• Community college psychology educators
• Psychology professionals
• Students

Use the resources below to locate high school(s) in your local area and visit the school website or contact the front office to verify if there is a psychology teacher at the school. Psychology courses are often taught through social studies departments.

• The National Center for Education Statistics directory of public schoolsopens in new window.
• The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) directory of schools on tribal reservationsopens in new window.
• The APA membership directory (available to APA members and affiliates via MyAPAopens in new window) can be used to search for high school psychology teacher members by state.
  • Sign into MyAPAopens in new window, click on “Explore the membership directory,” and type “High school” in the “Search for people box” and location in the “Location box.” Look for people whose membership type is high school teacher.
  • The APA website also has a page where you can find the contact information for leaders of several groups or organizations that serve high school psychology teachers by state or region.
• Contact Bryan Gerber, PhD, executive director of Psi Alphaopens in new window, the International Honor Society for High School Psychology, at executivedirector@psialpha.org to ask for Psi Alpha chapter contacts in your area.

Use these resources to find psychology professionals with doctoral or master’s degrees who represent varied career applications and training areas in psychology.

• Browse the webpages of APA’s 54 divisions to find psychology professionals with a particular interest and expertise in one of the subdisciplines of psychology.
  • From the main APA division webpage, under “View all divisions,” you can click on the links of individual divisions to find their webpages and contact information for divisional leaders.
• Explore the directory of state, provincial, and territorial psychological associations.
• Reach out to leaders of the seven regional psychological associations.
• Consider reaching out to psychology department chairs or psychology faculty at your local college or university.
  • Search the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education directoryopens in new window to find institutions in your area. You can leave the institution name blank and use the filter to browse locations in your state.