Zelaya, 25, is pursuing a master's degree in education with hopes of earning a doctorate and teaching middle school.

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Her father switched from teaching middle-school Spanish to running a fish store in the Portland suburb of Clackamas, where her mother had a business producing couture dresses.

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Teaching Leaders develops school middle managers such as heads of departments, and Future Leaders aims to develop potential leaders - not necessarily from within education - to work in difficult schools.

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Zuckerberg based his newly-public stance on personal experience with the middle-school entrepreneurship after-school class he started teaching earlier this year.

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Now he is in his second year teaching third-graders at Deerwood Academy in Atlanta, and he coaches football at Coan Middle School with two other corps members.

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