Teach For All: An Overview Teach For All is working toward the day when, in every community, a critical mass of leaders is working collectively to ensure all children can fulfll their potential. CONTENTS 2 A Proven Approach 3 A Thriving Global Network 4 Our Impact 6 Accelerating Progress 7 The Future Learn more about our work at teachforall.org Teach For All: An Overview 1 A Proven Approach A Global Problem What We Do Every child has the potential to shape a brighter future. But Teach For All is a global network of 50 independent partner around the world millions of children lack the education, support, organizations and a global organization that works to accelerate and opportunity they need to thrive. The obstacles they face— the progress of the network. Each network partner recruits and poverty, hunger, discrimination, trauma, and school systems that develops promising future leaders to teach in their nations’ are unequipped to meet their needs—are overwhelming. under-resourced schools and communities and, with this foundation, to work with others, inside and outside of education, to ensure all children are able to fulfill their potential. There’s no single solution Our approach is designed for immediate impact in classrooms to such a complex and long-term collective impact in communities: problem. To change the status quo for children in marginalized communities, we have to address their needs both within and beyond the classroom. All Children Deserve: 1. RECRUIT 2. PARTNER WITH SCHOOLS • Schools that meet Network organizations recruit These organizations work with their needs and select their nations’ diverse, schools, communities, and local promising future leaders governments to place participants • Family support to channel their energy into as teachers for at least two years and engagement expanding opportunity for in areas where there is children in their countries. educational need. • Advocates in and outside of school • Early childhood education • 21st century skills • Healthcare and nutrition 3. SUPPORT AND DEVELOP 4. CUTIVATE LEADERSHIP Partner organizations support Network partners cultivate and develop participants to work long-term collective leadership together with community members, among alumni, allies, and families, and local leaders towards community members in A Systemic Solution a shared vision for student success pursuit of progress towards and to gain the foundation for a the vision for student success. lifetime of leadership for children. To transform the systems that hold children back, we need many people pioneering many solutions and working together at all levels—in schools, in government, and in communities. And we need leaders who are both rooted in their local culture, challenges, and opportunities and informed by successful ideas and practices beyond their borders. Teach For All is developing this collective leadership— 5. SHARE AND 6. COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING leadership that is collaborative and inspires others ADAPT SOLUTIONS CHILDREN TO THRIVE to act and lead—to improve education and expand The global organization provides Communities all over the world opportunity for all children, so they can shape a better a platform for staff, teachers, alumni, provide all children the education, and allies around the world to share support, and opportunity future for themselves and the world around them. solutions to accelerate progress. to fulfill their potential. Teach For All: An Overview 2 A Thriving Global Network In 2007, Teach For All launched in response to interest from social entrepreneurs around the world who were inspired by its founding partners Teach For America and Teach First (UK) and + = believed a similar approach could help eliminate educational inequity in their countries. Strong, independent A global organization A thriving network Today, there are Teach For All network organizations in 50 countries organizations united facilitating connections, working to ensure by a shared purpose and sharing solutions, and all children fulfill across six continents—and the network continues to grow. approach and innovating building capacity their potential in diverse contexts Teach For All Network Partners AFGHANISTAN CHILE INDIA NEW ZEALAND SLOVAKIA Teach For Afghanistan Enseña Chile Teach For India Teach First NZ Teach For Slovakia ARGENTINA CHINA ISRAEL NIGERIA SPAIN Enseñá por Argentina Teach For China Teach First Israel Teach For Nigeria Empieza por Educar ARMENIA COLOMBIA JAPAN PAKISTAN SWEDEN Teach For Armenia Enseña por Colombia Teach For Japan Teach For Pakistan Teach For Sweden AUSTRALIA DENMARK LATVIA PANAMA THAILAND Teach For Australia Teach First Danmark Iespējamā Misija Enseña por Panamá Teach For Thailand AUSTRIA ECUADOR LEBANON PARAGUAY UGANDA Teach For Austria Enseña Ecuador Teach For Lebanon Enseña por Paraguay Teach For Uganda BANGLADESH ESTONIA LITHUANIA PERÚ UKRAINE Teach For Bangladesh Noored Kooli Renkuosi Mokyti! Enseña Perú Teach For Ukraine BELGIUM FRANCE MALAYSIA THE PHILIPPINES UNITED KINGDOM Teach For Belgium Le Choix de l’école Teach For Malaysia Teach for the Philippines Teach First BRAZIL GERMANY MEXICO PORTUGAL UNITED STATES Ensina Brasil Teach First Deutschland Enseña por México Teach For Portugal Teach For America BULGARIA GHANA MOROCCO QATAR URUGUAY Teach For Bulgaria Teach For Ghana Teach For Morocco Teach For Qatar Enseña Uruguay CAMBODIA HAITI NEPAL ROMANIA VIETNAM Teach For Cambodia Anseye Pou Ayiti Teach For Nepal Teach For Romania Teach For Vietnam Teach For All: An Overview 3 Our Impact A Generation of Changemakers Grounded in their experience in the classroom, network teachers are becoming leaders who, in partnership with communities and other stakeholders, are taking on the challenges facing marginalized children from inside and outside of the education system. Many alumni of Teach For All partners go on to become career Across the network: educators, while others continue to challenge inequity as school and district leaders, policymakers, advocates, and social innovators. 14,000+ teachers in classrooms Across the network: 900,000+ students reached 67,000+ network alumni Supporting Students to Learn and Lead 72% working in education In classrooms across the network, teachers are helping their or with disadvantaged students achieve academic success and develop the skills and communities mindsets they’ll need to navigate and lead the world they’ll inherit. Meet Teach For All Network Alumni Madhukar Banuri Veronica Palmer Marcia Rivas Founder and CEO, Leadership For Equity Co-Founder and CEO, RISE Colorado Director, Special Education Ministry of Primary Education, Peru 2009 alumnus, Teach For India 2006 alumna, Teach For America 2011 alumna, Enseña Peru Joaquim Sabria Mayorga Felicia Yoon and David Chak Lihi Goss-Avital Co-founder and CEO, EDpuzzle Co-Founders, Arus Academy Principal, Ramat Itzhak Alef School 2010 alumnus, Empieza por Educar (Spain) 2013 alumni, Teach For Malaysia 2010 alumna, Teach First Israel MEET MORE ALUMNI Teach For All: An Overview 4 Our Impact We’ve Seen the Extraordinary Role Teach For All’s And Across the Network, Founding Partners Have Played in Expanding We See Evidence That Collective Opportunities Within Communities Leadership is Building UNITED STATES INDIA Teach For America Teach For India Washington, D.C., Est. 2003, 125 current teachers, 3,000 alumni Pune, Est. 2009, 230 current teachers, 200 alumni Outcomes have improved: Enrollment, graduation rates, and • Teach For India alumni are working to develop 20+ new proficiency levels have all increased since 2005. Three times English language secondary schools in five years, helping as many 4th graders are proficient in reading and math today ensure thousands of students complete secondary education based on the National Assessment of Education Progress • Others are training thousands of educators through innovative Alumni have played a critical role: programs like iTeach and India School Leadership Initiative • Teach For America alumni make up 20% of D.C.’s principals, • Alumni-launched Leadership For Equity brings together were the last five teachers of the year, and lead numerous schools, policymakers, NGOs, and community members local education non-profits to develop shared goals for Pune’s children • Alumni have led the school system as Chancellors, Deputy Mayors of Education, and Superintendents of Education BULGARIA for 11+ years Teach For Bulgaria Est. 2011, 111 current teachers, 262 alumni UNITED KINGDOM • Together with local partners, alumni are leading an initiative Teach First to improve outcomes in a Roma community London, Est. 2003, 1125 current teachers, 2,640 alumni • Alumnus Emiliyan Kadyisyski co-founded Vratsa Software Outcomes have improved: Between 2002 and 2013, the to help his hometown become a regional tech hub percentage of inner London students gaining five GCSEs grew • Alumna Zlatka Dimitrova manages Education Bulgaria 2030 from 22% to 48% to align diverse stakeholders around shared goals for Alumni have played a critical role: improved education outcomes • Teach First has placed more than 5,000 teachers in the • An alumni-founded initiative shares Teach For Bulgaria’s capital, and today its participants and alumni account for tools and practices to help principals and teachers improve nearly one in 14 of all teachers working in schools serving student outcomes low-income communities in inner London • Nearly 900 Teach First alumni are currently working in CHILE middle or senior leadership positions in London schools Enseña Chile Est. 2009, 183 current