With the growing demand for early childhood teachers, Teach For America (TFA) is helping college graduates become early childhood educators. This article reports how TFA trains college graduates to be prepared for the demands of early childhood classrooms. TFA, which was founded in 1990 by then-college student Wendy Kopp, has prepared 17,000 teachers through a program that includes an intensive summer training course and four weeks of student teaching. TFA occasionally has had its recruits assigned to prekindergarten in the past, but last summer was the first time the organization specifically trained recruits to work in public pre-K classrooms. The early-childhood initiative adds a dimension to a program that has drawn criticism from some in the more traditional teacher-training community, who question the wisdom of assigning young recruits without extensive educational training to teach urban and rural students who need the most help.