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Teach For All is an international non-profit organization. The organization coordinates a network of over a dozen non-profits from across the globe; all the non-profits are united under a common mission of providing an excellent education to all students while simultaneously building a movement for education reform. The organization was founded in 2007 by Wendy Kopp (CEO of Teach For America) and Brett Wigdortz (CEO of Teach First)<ref name="HISTORY"/>. While all member organizations are independently staffed and funded, they benefit from the knowledge and experience complied by Teach For America, Teach First and other members.<ref name="CHANGE"/> Teach For All is funded through donations from both corporations and individuals as well as grants.<ref name=FUNDS>[http://teachforallnetwork.org/aboutus_supporters.html]Supporters. (2010). Teach For All Network. Retrieved 14 November 2010.</ref>
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'''Teach For All''' is a global network of 61 independent, locally led and funded partner organizations<ref name="BROOKINGS">[http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports2/2016/04/millions-learning Perlman Robinson, Jenny & Winthrop, Rebecca (April 2016). “Millions Learning: Scaling up Quality education in Developing Countries”. Brookings Institution.] Retrieved April 18, 2016</ref> whose stated shared mission is to "expand [[education]]al opportunity around the world by increasing and accelerating the impact of [[social enterprise]]s that are cultivating the leadership necessary for change."<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-woodburn/teach-for-all_b_5327286.html Woodburn, Greg (September 15, 2014). “Teach For All’”. Huffington Post Blog.] Retrieved April 4, 2016</ref> Each partner aims to recruit and develop diverse graduates and professionals to exert [[leadership]] through two-year commitments to teach in their nations' high-need classrooms and lifelong commitments to expand opportunity for children.<ref name="REUTERS">[https://web.archive.org/web/20160513123642/http://www.reuters.com/article/co-western-union-idUSnBw135149a+100+BSW20150813 Reuters (August 13, 2015). “Western Union Foundation Announces Grants Supporting Teach For All Education Programs across Several Countries”.] Retrieved April 4, 2016</ref> The organization was founded in 2007 by [[Wendy Kopp]] (founder and former CEO of [[Teach For America]]) and [[Brett Wigdortz]] (founder and former CEO of [[Teach First]]). Teach For All works to accelerate partners' progress and increase their impact by capturing and sharing knowledge, facilitating network connections, provisioning global resources, and fostering leadership development of staff, teachers, and [[alumni]].<ref name="TEPSIE">[http://www.tepsie.eu/images/documents/d72final.pdf Davies, Anna (May 2014) “Spreading Social Innovations: A Case Study Report”. The theoretical, empirical and policy foundations for building social innovation in Europe (TEPSIE), European Commission.] Retrieved April 4, 2016.</ref>

==History==
==History==
Teach For America founder Wendy Kopp and Teach First founder Brett Wigdortz co-founded Teach For All after fielding numerous requests from [[Social entrepreneurship|social entrepreneurs]] around the world who wanted to create similar organizations that would expand educational opportunities in their own countries.<ref>[https://www.scribd.com/doc/216807585/Nota-Teach-for-All-y-Wendykopp-Somos Machuca Castillo, Gabriela (April 5, 2014). “Modelo a Seguir”. Somos.] Retrieved April 18, 2016</ref> Since its launch at the [[Clinton Global Initiative]] in September 2007,<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/education/22teach.html?_r=0 Dillon, Sam (September 21, 2011). “Global Effort to Recruit Teachers Expand”. The New York Times.] Retrieved April 18, 2016</ref> Teach For All has grown to include 59 partners on six continents as of February 2021 who are pursuing a similar approach to working towards educational equity and excellence for all of their nations' children. The organization has global hubs in New York, Washington, London, Doha, Pune, and Hong Kong. It has an annual budget of $19.9 million<ref>[http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.profile&ein=262122566#.Vx4RTlYrLIV Charity Navigator (September 2015). “Teach for All Inc” - Form 990 Revenue Amount.] Retrieved April 5, 2016</ref> provided by global foundations, corporations, and individuals.
Teach For All was founded in 2007 through a collaboration of Teach For America (an educational non-profit in the U.S.) and Teach First (an educational non-profit in the U.K.). <ref name="HISTORY">[[http://teachforallnetwork.org/aboutus_history.html]] History. (2010). Teach For All. Retrieved 14 November 2010.</ref>Teach For All Network. A year prior, 12 different social entrepreneurs in different countries had solicited advice from either Teach For America or Teach First as they tried to create educational non-profits in their respective countries.<ref name="HISTORY"/> The organization was initially incubated within Teach For America but is currently a separately funded and staffed organization.<ref name="HISTORY"/> It is headquartered in New York, NY. <ref name="NEWPROFIT"> [[http://newprofit.com/cgi-bin/iowa/do/invest/25.html]] Teach For All. NewProfit Inc. Retrieved 21 November 2010.</ref> It has an annual operating budget of $8.6 million provided by global foundations, corporations and individuals.<ref name="CHANGE"> [[http://changeobserver.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=14028]] Beck, E. (2010) Project: Teach For All. Change Observer. Retrieved 14 November 2010</ref> Wendy Kopp, the CEO and founder of Teach For America, attributes the part the inspiration to found Teach For All to, “the inspired, passionate social entrepreneurs in countries, all around the world.”<ref name="SKOLL"> [[http://www.skollfoundation.org/entrepreneur/wendy-kopp/.]] Teach For All. Skoll Foundation. Retrieved 17 November 2010.</ref>
[[File:Wendy Kopp 2008.jpg|thumb|Wendy Kopp, Founder of Teach for America, Co-founder of Teach For All]]
[[File:Wendy Kopp - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012.jpg|thumb|Wendy Kopp, Founder of Teach for America, co-founder of Teach For All]]


==Organization Structure==
==Organization structure==
All the member organizations of Teach For All are unified by a common mission. They are all working to improve the education of students in classrooms now while simultaneously working to build the long-term movement for educational equity in their country. <ref name="GLOBAL">[[http://teachforallnetwork.org/network_challenge.html]]Global Challenge. (2010). Teach For All Network. Retrieved 14 November 2010.</ref> In order to achieve this, all the organizations recruit and invest young leaders of a variety of vocational interests, place these leaders in 2-year commitments in classrooms, provide them with training and support and foster alumni development. <ref name="MISSION">[[http://teachforallnetwork.org/network_mission.html]]Unifying Mission. (2010). Teach For All Network. Retrieved 14 November 2010.</ref>
Teach For All is a network of organizations with a unifying mission to expand educational opportunity. Teach For All partner organizations work to improve the education of students in classrooms now, while simultaneously working to build the long-term movement for [[educational equity]] in their countries. In order to achieve this, Teach For All partner organizations recruit outstanding graduates and professionals from a range of academic disciplines to commit two years to teach in high-need schools and communities and to work throughout their lives to ensure more students are able to fulfill their potential.<ref>[http://skoll.org/organization/teach-for-all/ “Teach For All”. Skoll Foundation.] Retrieved April 5, 2016</ref> Teach For All network partners provide participants with ongoing training and support throughout their initial two-year commitments, and foster the development of alumni as leaders for educational change.<ref name="BROOKINGS"/>


In a 2017 lecture at Princeton University reported in the [[The Daily Princetonian|Daily Princetonian]], Teach For All co-founder Wendy Kopp said, "In actuality, the organization’s primary aim is to find solutions for 'the big, complex, systemic challenges that can’t be solved in classrooms alone'."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2017/05/wendy-kopplecture|title=Wendy Kopp '89, founder of Teach for America, discusses undergraduate inspirations|website=The Princetonian|access-date=2019-09-10}}</ref>
Teach For All is based on the concept of global-local practice – meaning that members have grassroots organizations in their country and belong to a global network of organizations. <ref name="CHANGE"/>. The global network exists to help organizations climb the learning curve more quickly and benefit from a shared knowledge base. <ref name="NEWPROFIT"/> The Teach For All model is also demand driven; the organization does not seek out social entrepreneurs to take up the cause in different countries but instead must be solicited to come and help an already established effort.<ref name="CHANGE"/>.


Teach For All is based on the concept of global-local practice-partners which launch grassroots organizations in their countries and belong to a global network of organizations.<ref name="DESIGNOBSERVER">[http://designobserver.com/feature/teach-for-all/14028 Beck, E. (June 19, 2010). “Project: Teach For All”. The Design Observer Group.] Retrieved April 18, 2016</ref> It is described by [[Thomas Friedman]] as "a loose global network of locally run teams of teachers, who share best practices and target young people in support of a single goal."<ref>Friedman, Thomas (October 29, 2013). [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/30/opinion/friedman-meet-the-makers.html "Meet the Makers".] ''[[The New York Times]]''. Retrieved April 5, 2016</ref> The Teach For All approach is demand driven; in almost all cases, the organization is approached by already established efforts interested in joining the network, rather than proactively spreading the approach.<ref name="DESIGNOBSERVER" />
Because Teach For All is based around the concept of global-local practice, each organization makes adaptations to the original model in order to accommodate their local culture and context. The growth strategy and development managing director for the Middle East and Asia, Reem Marto, said, “The program would be tailored to suit each country”.<ref name="STAR">[[http://thestar.com.my/education/story.asp?file=/2010/10/31/education/7309720&sec=education]]Cahpman, K. (2010) Teaching challenge for fresh grads. The Star. Retrieved 21 November 2010</ref> In Germany, for example, teachers who sign on with Teach For Germany are not called corps members because on the titles association with government; instead they are referred to as fellows. <ref name="GERMANY">[[http://www.tapmag.net/wordpress/2009/03/06/teach-for-germany/]]Binsch, J. (2009) Teach For Germany. TAPMAG. Retrieved 21 November 2010.</ref> Also in Germany, fellows are not full-time teachers with there own classrooms (due to legal restrictions on who can become licensed to teach) but provide additional and supplemental support services for students. <ref name="GERMANY"/> Teach For India has also tweaked the model as the adapt it to their own cultural context. Because of the negative stigma attached to the teaching profession in India, Teach For India provides a supplemental monetary incentive to their teachers to draw more competitive applicants. <ref name="INDIA">[[http://www.good.is/post/teach-for-india]]Mongeau, L. (2010). Teach For India tackles Mumbai’s slums. Good. Retrieved 21 November 2010 </ref>


The organization cites diverse cultural contexts across its different network partners as one of its major strengths,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mediamax.am/en/news/interviews/29026/|title=Wendy Kopp: We're excited to see the impact Teach For Armenia has made|website=mediamax.am|language=en|access-date=2019-09-10}}</ref> allowing partner organizations to make an impact within their own spheres of influence and socio-political structures.
==Membership==
Teach For all currently has 13 member organizations (not including Teach For America or Teach First) in 13 different countries. <ref name="CHANGE"/>. Within this network, Teach For All is supporting 8,000 teachers that are impacting over 560,000 students. <ref name="SKOLL"/>. There have been inquiries about joining the Teach For All network from social entrepreneurs in 80 additional countries. <ref name="CHANGE"/> Wendy Kopp, CEO and founder of Teach For America and co-founder of Teach For All, speculates that the Teach For all network will grow to 50-60 organizations within 5 years. <ref name="CHANGE"/>.


Teach For All forms partnerships with organizations that share the same theory of change and are committed to eight unifying principles, quoted here:<blockquote>1. Recruiting and selecting as many as possible of the country's most promising future leaders of all academic disciplines and career interests who demonstrate the core competencies to positively impact student achievement and become long-term leaders able to effect systemic change
====Requirements====
All the member organizations must adhere to a similar philosophy of educational change, must recruit and train young leaders who will both impact students in the short-term and go on to create systemic change in various sectors as alumni. <ref name="NEWPROFIT"/>. In order to become a member of the Teach For All network organizations must first participate in a 2-year start-up phase; during this phase Teach For All will help them understand the model, gauge the feasibility and make a business plan. <ref name="CHANGE"/>. After completing the 2-year start-up phase organizations become full fledged members who receives one Teach For All staff member on the ground and a virtual support team.<ref name="CHANGE"/>.
[[File:TeachForAllOrgs.jpg|thumb|TeachForAllOrgs]]
Each local organization is responsible for its governance and funding and is encouraged to develop a distinct brand and logo. <ref name="NEWPROFIT"/>
Ryan Wise, the managing director for growth strategy at Teach For All, describes the network as “a network of independent organizations with locally staffed and funded groups but which align to a core series of principles that are adapted to the local context.” <ref name="CHANGE"/>.


2. Training and developing participants so they build the skills, mindsets, and knowledge needed to maximize impact on student achievement
====Benefits====
Once members the organizations are supported in 5 ways. They are: recruitment and selection, training and developing, placing participants, accelerating the leadership of members and alumni and driving measurable impact in both short and long term. <ref name="NEWPROFIT"/>. Andrea Pasinetti, the founder and CEO of China Education Initiative, praises the network saying, “We feel lucky to have a thought-partner with the collective experience , resourceful staff and penetrating managerial insight necessary to help our organization grow.”<ref name="CHINA">[[http://www.chinaeducationinitiative.org/about-cei/about-teach-all]]About Teach For All. China Education Initiative. Retrieved 21 November 2010</ref>


3. Placing participants as teachers for two years in regular beginning teaching positions in areas of educational need, with clear accountability for their classrooms
==Funding==
Teach For All has received a number of grants and donations from global foundations and corporations that have enabled them to grow. An initial founding partner was McKinsey & Company who helped establish the pilot organizations in Chile, Germany, South Africa, India, Australia, Lebanon and Israel. <ref name=HARVARD>[[http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/news/alumni/recart-mpa.id-profile]]Kohut, M. (2010) Bringing Teach For America to Chile. Harvard Kennedy School News. Retrieved 21 November 2010</ref> In 2009, the Skoll Foundation gave Teach For All the Award for Social Entrepreneurship and a three year guarantee for an annual donation of $765,000. <ref name=SKOLL2> PR Newswire. (2009). Skoll foundation adds seven organizations to its portfolio of leading social entrepreneurs. Retrieved 21 November 2010 from LexisNesix</ref> The award is given to organizations that have already demonstrated significant impact.


4. Accelerating the leadership of alumni by fostering the network between them and creating clear and compelling paths to leadership for expanding educational opportunity
In 2010 Teach For All received the Oracle Commitment Grant. The grant was to help with expansion into the new countries, help develop tools, systems and process to help local programs adapt to the model and totaled 1$ million. <ref name="ORACLE"> [[http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/citizenship/teach-for-all-150889.html]]Oracle commitment grant: Teach For All. Oracle. Retrieved 21 November 2010</ref> Also in 2010, Deutsche Post DHL and Teach For All announced a global partnership that would provide Teach For All with financial support, mentorship programs and career services . The primary goal of the purpose is to expand the enterprises in Argentina, Chile, Peru and India. The partnership will also foster development of organizations in Spain and Brazil. <ref name="DHL">[[http://finchannel.com/Main_News/Business/75833_Deutsche_Post_DHL_and_Teach_For_All_launch_global_partnership/]]Deutsche Post DHL and Teach For All launch global partnership. Financial. Retrieved 21 November 2010.</ref> Frank Appel, CEO of Deutsche Post DHL, said the partnership made perfect sense considering, “Teach For All and Deutsche Post DHL both share the same basic principle of assuming global responsibility for future generations“. <ref name="DHL"/> Wendy Kopp, founder and CEO of Teach For America and co-founder of Teach For all, says the partnership will help the organization expand to 30 countries by 2013. <ref name="DHL"/>

5. Driving measurable impact in the short term on student achievement and in the long term on the development of leaders who will help ensure educational opportunity for all

6. A local social enterprise that adapts the model thoughtfully to the national context, innovates and increases impact over time, and possesses the mission-driven leadership and organizational capacity necessary to achieve ambitious goals despite constraints

7. Independence from the control of government and other external entities, with an autonomous Board, a diversified funding base, and the freedom to make operational decisions, challenge traditional paradigms, and sustain the model in the face of political changes

8. Partnerships with the public and private sectors that provide the teaching placements, funding, and supportive policy environment necessary to achieve scale and sustain impact over time, while increasing accountability for results<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://teachforall.org/en/our-network-and-impact/network-partners|title=Network Partners|website=Teach For All|access-date=August 23, 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170608170800/http://teachforall.org/en/our-network-and-impact/network-partners|archivedate=June 8, 2017}}</ref><ref>[https://citiesofpromise.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/som-case-study.pdf Rosalind Wiggins Z., Rosalind (November 2013). “PromiseNet: Toward A More Unified Network?” Yale School of Management Case Study.] Retrieved April 18, 2016</ref></blockquote>

==Partners==
Teach For All currently has more than 60 partner organizations around the world. Within this network, Teach For All partners have placed over 65,000 teachers and impacted more than 6,000,000 children.<ref>[http://www.delivered.dhl.com/en/articles/2015/03/a-different-class.html Rayner, Christine (March 2015). “A Different Class”. DHL Magazine.] Retrieved April 18, 2016</ref> In recent years, Teach For All partners support over 16,000 teachers impacting over 1,150,000 children annually.<ref name="REUTERS"/> There have been inquiries about joining the Teach For All network from social entrepreneurs in a number of additional countries.

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|+ Table of Member Organizations
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Organization Name'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Country'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Year Founded'''
|-
| Teach For Afghanistan||Afghanistan||2017
|-
| Enseñá por Argentina||Argentina||2009
|-
| [[Teach For Armenia]]||Armenia||2013
|-
| [[Teach For Australia]]||Australia||2009
|-
| Teach For Austria||Austria||2011
|-
| Teach For Bangladesh||Bangladesh||2012
|-
| Teach For Belgium||Belgium||2013
|-
|Enseña por Bolivia
|Bolivia
|2020
|-
| Ensina Brasil||Brazil||2016
|-
| Teach For Bulgaria||Bulgaria||2010
|-
| Teach For Cambodia||Cambodia||2017
|-
| Enseña Chile||Chile||2007
|-
| Teach For China||China||2010
|-
| Enseña por Colombia||Colombia||2010
|-
| Teach First Danmark ||Denmark||2015
|-
| Enseña Ecuador||Ecuador||2013
|-
| Noored Kooli (Youth to School)||Estonia||2006
|-
|Teach For Ethiopia
|Ethiopia
|2021
|-
| Le Choix de l'école||France||2015
|-
| Teach First Deutschland||Germany||2008
|-
| Lead For Ghana||Ghana||2016
|-
| Anseye Pou Ayiti||Haiti||2015
|-
| [[Teach For India]]||India||2007
|-
| Teach First Israel||Israel||2010
|-
|Teach For Italy
|Italy
|2019
|-
| Teach For Japan||Japan||2012
|-
|Teach For Kenya
|Kenya
|2020
|-
| Iespējamā Misija (Mission Possible)||Latvia||2008
|-
| Teach For Lebanon||Lebanon||2008
|-
|Teach For Liberia
|Liberia
|2019
|-
| Renkuosi Mokyti! (Let's Teach!)||Lithuania||2012
|-
| Teach For Malaysia||Malaysia||2011
|-
| Enseña por Méxìco||Méxìco||2013
|-
|Teach for Mongolia
|Mongolia
|2022
|-
| Teach For Morocco||Morocco||2019
|-
| Teach For Nepal||Nepal||2012
|-
| Ako Mātātupu: Teach First NZ||New Zealand||2012
|-
| Teach For Nigeria||Nigeria||2017
|-
| Teach For Pakistan||Pakistan||2018
|-
| Enseña por Panamá||Panama||2015
|-
| Enseña por Paraguay||Paraguay||2019
|-
| Enseña Perú||Peru||2010
|-
| Teach for the Philippines||The Philippines||2012
|-
| Teach For Poland||Poland||2020
|-
| Teach For Portugal||Portugal||2019
|-
| Teach For Qatar||Qatar||2013
|-
| Teach For Romania||Romania||2014
|-
|Teach For Senegal
|Senegal
|2021
|-
|Teach For Sierra Leone
|Sierra Leone
|2020
|-
| Teach For Slovakia||Slovakia||2014
|-
|Teach The Nation
|South Africa
|2020
|-
| Empieza por Educar||Spain||2011
|-
| Teach For Sweden||Sweden||2013
|-
|Teach For Tanzania
|Tanzania
|2019
|-
| Teach For Thailand||Thailand||2013
|-
| Teach for Uganda||Uganda||2017
|-
| Teach For Ukraine||Ukraine||2017
|-
| [[Teach First]]||United Kingdom||2001
|-
| [[Teach For America]]||United States||1990
|-
| Enseña Uruguay||Uruguay||2014
|-
| Teach For Vietnam||Vietnam||2017
|-
|Teach for Zimbabwe
|Zimbabwe
|2020
|}

==Requirements==
The Teach For All theory of change is based on developing "leaders in any sector who have seen the battlefield [of educating in under-served communities and] will become powerful allies in the quest to improve the worst schools."<ref name="ECONOMIST">[https://www.economist.com/news/international/21643146-programmes-place-bright-and-ambitious-graduates-poor-schools-are-spreading-around (February 14, 2015). “High-fliers in the classroom”. The Economist.] Retrieved April 18, 2016</ref> Approximately 50-70 percent of Teach For All partners' alumni stay in education long-term.<ref name="ECONOMIST"/> Some alumni continue to work toward improving education systems and outcomes in other ways, such as by developing online teaching resources.<ref name="ECONOMIST" /> Upon joining the network, each local organization is responsible for its governance and funding and is encouraged to develop a distinct brand and logo.<ref name="TEPSIE"/>

==Impact & Initiatives==

=== Novice Educator Support and Training ===
In February 2021 Teach For All announced the commencement of a three-year policy experimentation partnership with the [[European Commission]]. Co-funded through a European Union Erasmus+ Key Action 3 grant, The Novice Educator Support and Training (NEST) partnership focuses on mentoring for new teachers in under-resourced schools. NEST is intended to design, implement, and evaluate a system of adaptive mentoring for new teachers in under-resourced schools in Bulgaria, Austria, Belgium, Spain, and Romania. Teach For Bulgaria leads the consortium, with other Teach For All partners working alongside Ministries of Education, other public authorities, a teacher union, and a university. The NEST initiative draws on the experience of the previous Erasmus+ A New Way for New Talents in Teaching (NEWTT) project also led by Teach For Bulgaria.


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Teach For All
Founded2007
FounderWendy Kopp, and Brett Wigdortz, Co-founders
TypeNonprofit organization
FocusEliminate Educational Inequity
Location
Key people
Wendy Kopp - Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer
Brett Wigdortz - Co-founder
Websiteteachforall.org

Teach For All is a global network of 61 independent, locally led and funded partner organizations[1] whose stated shared mission is to "expand educational opportunity around the world by increasing and accelerating the impact of social enterprises that are cultivating the leadership necessary for change."[2] Each partner aims to recruit and develop diverse graduates and professionals to exert leadership through two-year commitments to teach in their nations' high-need classrooms and lifelong commitments to expand opportunity for children.[3] The organization was founded in 2007 by Wendy Kopp (founder and former CEO of Teach For America) and Brett Wigdortz (founder and former CEO of Teach First). Teach For All works to accelerate partners' progress and increase their impact by capturing and sharing knowledge, facilitating network connections, provisioning global resources, and fostering leadership development of staff, teachers, and alumni.[4]

History[edit]

Teach For America founder Wendy Kopp and Teach First founder Brett Wigdortz co-founded Teach For All after fielding numerous requests from social entrepreneurs around the world who wanted to create similar organizations that would expand educational opportunities in their own countries.[5] Since its launch at the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2007,[6] Teach For All has grown to include 59 partners on six continents as of February 2021 who are pursuing a similar approach to working towards educational equity and excellence for all of their nations' children. The organization has global hubs in New York, Washington, London, Doha, Pune, and Hong Kong. It has an annual budget of $19.9 million[7] provided by global foundations, corporations, and individuals.

Wendy Kopp, Founder of Teach for America, co-founder of Teach For All

Organization structure[edit]

Teach For All is a network of organizations with a unifying mission to expand educational opportunity. Teach For All partner organizations work to improve the education of students in classrooms now, while simultaneously working to build the long-term movement for educational equity in their countries. In order to achieve this, Teach For All partner organizations recruit outstanding graduates and professionals from a range of academic disciplines to commit two years to teach in high-need schools and communities and to work throughout their lives to ensure more students are able to fulfill their potential.[8] Teach For All network partners provide participants with ongoing training and support throughout their initial two-year commitments, and foster the development of alumni as leaders for educational change.[1]

In a 2017 lecture at Princeton University reported in the Daily Princetonian, Teach For All co-founder Wendy Kopp said, "In actuality, the organization’s primary aim is to find solutions for 'the big, complex, systemic challenges that can’t be solved in classrooms alone'."[9]

Teach For All is based on the concept of global-local practice-partners which launch grassroots organizations in their countries and belong to a global network of organizations.[10] It is described by Thomas Friedman as "a loose global network of locally run teams of teachers, who share best practices and target young people in support of a single goal."[11] The Teach For All approach is demand driven; in almost all cases, the organization is approached by already established efforts interested in joining the network, rather than proactively spreading the approach.[10]

The organization cites diverse cultural contexts across its different network partners as one of its major strengths,[12] allowing partner organizations to make an impact within their own spheres of influence and socio-political structures.

Teach For All forms partnerships with organizations that share the same theory of change and are committed to eight unifying principles, quoted here:

1. Recruiting and selecting as many as possible of the country's most promising future leaders of all academic disciplines and career interests who demonstrate the core competencies to positively impact student achievement and become long-term leaders able to effect systemic change

2. Training and developing participants so they build the skills, mindsets, and knowledge needed to maximize impact on student achievement

3. Placing participants as teachers for two years in regular beginning teaching positions in areas of educational need, with clear accountability for their classrooms

4. Accelerating the leadership of alumni by fostering the network between them and creating clear and compelling paths to leadership for expanding educational opportunity

5. Driving measurable impact in the short term on student achievement and in the long term on the development of leaders who will help ensure educational opportunity for all

6. A local social enterprise that adapts the model thoughtfully to the national context, innovates and increases impact over time, and possesses the mission-driven leadership and organizational capacity necessary to achieve ambitious goals despite constraints

7. Independence from the control of government and other external entities, with an autonomous Board, a diversified funding base, and the freedom to make operational decisions, challenge traditional paradigms, and sustain the model in the face of political changes

8. Partnerships with the public and private sectors that provide the teaching placements, funding, and supportive policy environment necessary to achieve scale and sustain impact over time, while increasing accountability for results[13][14]

Partners[edit]

Teach For All currently has more than 60 partner organizations around the world. Within this network, Teach For All partners have placed over 65,000 teachers and impacted more than 6,000,000 children.[15] In recent years, Teach For All partners support over 16,000 teachers impacting over 1,150,000 children annually.[3] There have been inquiries about joining the Teach For All network from social entrepreneurs in a number of additional countries.

Table of Member Organizations
Organization Name Country Year Founded
Teach For Afghanistan Afghanistan 2017
Enseñá por Argentina Argentina 2009
Teach For Armenia Armenia 2013
Teach For Australia Australia 2009
Teach For Austria Austria 2011
Teach For Bangladesh Bangladesh 2012
Teach For Belgium Belgium 2013
Enseña por Bolivia Bolivia 2020
Ensina Brasil Brazil 2016
Teach For Bulgaria Bulgaria 2010
Teach For Cambodia Cambodia 2017
Enseña Chile Chile 2007
Teach For China China 2010
Enseña por Colombia Colombia 2010
Teach First Danmark Denmark 2015
Enseña Ecuador Ecuador 2013
Noored Kooli (Youth to School) Estonia 2006
Teach For Ethiopia Ethiopia 2021
Le Choix de l'école France 2015
Teach First Deutschland Germany 2008
Lead For Ghana Ghana 2016
Anseye Pou Ayiti Haiti 2015
Teach For India India 2007
Teach First Israel Israel 2010
Teach For Italy Italy 2019
Teach For Japan Japan 2012
Teach For Kenya Kenya 2020
Iespējamā Misija (Mission Possible) Latvia 2008
Teach For Lebanon Lebanon 2008
Teach For Liberia Liberia 2019
Renkuosi Mokyti! (Let's Teach!) Lithuania 2012
Teach For Malaysia Malaysia 2011
Enseña por Méxìco Méxìco 2013
Teach for Mongolia Mongolia 2022
Teach For Morocco Morocco 2019
Teach For Nepal Nepal 2012
Ako Mātātupu: Teach First NZ New Zealand 2012
Teach For Nigeria Nigeria 2017
Teach For Pakistan Pakistan 2018
Enseña por Panamá Panama 2015
Enseña por Paraguay Paraguay 2019
Enseña Perú Peru 2010
Teach for the Philippines The Philippines 2012
Teach For Poland Poland 2020
Teach For Portugal Portugal 2019
Teach For Qatar Qatar 2013
Teach For Romania Romania 2014
Teach For Senegal Senegal 2021
Teach For Sierra Leone Sierra Leone 2020
Teach For Slovakia Slovakia 2014
Teach The Nation South Africa 2020
Empieza por Educar Spain 2011
Teach For Sweden Sweden 2013
Teach For Tanzania Tanzania 2019
Teach For Thailand Thailand 2013
Teach for Uganda Uganda 2017
Teach For Ukraine Ukraine 2017
Teach First United Kingdom 2001
Teach For America United States 1990
Enseña Uruguay Uruguay 2014
Teach For Vietnam Vietnam 2017
Teach for Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 2020

Requirements[edit]

The Teach For All theory of change is based on developing "leaders in any sector who have seen the battlefield [of educating in under-served communities and] will become powerful allies in the quest to improve the worst schools."[16] Approximately 50-70 percent of Teach For All partners' alumni stay in education long-term.[16] Some alumni continue to work toward improving education systems and outcomes in other ways, such as by developing online teaching resources.[16] Upon joining the network, each local organization is responsible for its governance and funding and is encouraged to develop a distinct brand and logo.[4]

Impact & Initiatives[edit]

Novice Educator Support and Training[edit]

In February 2021 Teach For All announced the commencement of a three-year policy experimentation partnership with the European Commission. Co-funded through a European Union Erasmus+ Key Action 3 grant, The Novice Educator Support and Training (NEST) partnership focuses on mentoring for new teachers in under-resourced schools. NEST is intended to design, implement, and evaluate a system of adaptive mentoring for new teachers in under-resourced schools in Bulgaria, Austria, Belgium, Spain, and Romania. Teach For Bulgaria leads the consortium, with other Teach For All partners working alongside Ministries of Education, other public authorities, a teacher union, and a university. The NEST initiative draws on the experience of the previous Erasmus+ A New Way for New Talents in Teaching (NEWTT) project also led by Teach For Bulgaria.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Perlman Robinson, Jenny & Winthrop, Rebecca (April 2016). “Millions Learning: Scaling up Quality education in Developing Countries”. Brookings Institution. Retrieved April 18, 2016
  2. ^ Woodburn, Greg (September 15, 2014). “Teach For All’”. Huffington Post Blog. Retrieved April 4, 2016
  3. ^ a b Reuters (August 13, 2015). “Western Union Foundation Announces Grants Supporting Teach For All Education Programs across Several Countries”. Retrieved April 4, 2016
  4. ^ a b Davies, Anna (May 2014) “Spreading Social Innovations: A Case Study Report”. The theoretical, empirical and policy foundations for building social innovation in Europe (TEPSIE), European Commission. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
  5. ^ Machuca Castillo, Gabriela (April 5, 2014). “Modelo a Seguir”. Somos. Retrieved April 18, 2016
  6. ^ Dillon, Sam (September 21, 2011). “Global Effort to Recruit Teachers Expand”. The New York Times. Retrieved April 18, 2016
  7. ^ Charity Navigator (September 2015). “Teach for All Inc” - Form 990 Revenue Amount. Retrieved April 5, 2016
  8. ^ “Teach For All”. Skoll Foundation. Retrieved April 5, 2016
  9. ^ "Wendy Kopp '89, founder of Teach for America, discusses undergraduate inspirations". The Princetonian. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
  10. ^ a b Beck, E. (June 19, 2010). “Project: Teach For All”. The Design Observer Group. Retrieved April 18, 2016
  11. ^ Friedman, Thomas (October 29, 2013). "Meet the Makers". The New York Times. Retrieved April 5, 2016
  12. ^ "Wendy Kopp: We're excited to see the impact Teach For Armenia has made". mediamax.am. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
  13. ^ "Network Partners". Teach For All. Archived from the original on June 8, 2017. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
  14. ^ Rosalind Wiggins Z., Rosalind (November 2013). “PromiseNet: Toward A More Unified Network?” Yale School of Management Case Study. Retrieved April 18, 2016
  15. ^ Rayner, Christine (March 2015). “A Different Class”. DHL Magazine. Retrieved April 18, 2016
  16. ^ a b c (February 14, 2015). “High-fliers in the classroom”. The Economist. Retrieved April 18, 2016
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