Teach For All

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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 and President
Nick Canning - Chief Operating Officer
Websiteteachforall.org

Teach For All is a global network of over 35 independent, locally led and funded partner organizations with a shared vision for expanded educational opportunity in their countries. Each partner recruits and develops 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.[1] The organization was founded in 2007 by Wendy Kopp (CEO of Teach For America) and Brett Wigdortz (CEO of Teach First).[2] Teach For All works to accelerate partners’ progress and increase their impact by providing direct support, facilitating connections across the network, accessing global resources for the benefit of the whole, and fostering leadership development of staff, teachers, and alumni.[3]

History

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 opportunity in their own countries. Since its launch at the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2007, Teach For All has grown to include more than 35 partners on five continents who are pursuing a similar approach to working towards educational equity and excellence for all of their nations’ children.[4] It has global hubs in New York, Washington, London, Doha, and Hong Kong.[5] Wendy Kopp, the former CEO and founder of Teach For America, attributes the inspiration to found Teach For All in part to “the inspired, passionate social entrepreneurs in countries, all around the world.”[6]

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

Organization structure

Teach For All is a network of independent organizations with a unifying mission to expand educational opportunity around the world, and a global organization working to increase and accelerate the individual and collective impact of those organizations.[7] 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 countries. In order to achieve this, the organizations recruit young leaders of a variety of disciplines and academic interests, place these leaders in 2-year commitments in classrooms, provide them with training and support, and foster the development of alumni as leaders for educational change and expanded opportunity for the students they teach and communities in which they work.[8]

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. 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.[9] The global network exists to help organizations climb the learning curve more quickly and benefit from a shared knowledge base. It also provides early stage support to new potential partners. Teach For All works with emerging entrepreneurs as they deepen their understanding of the problem of educational inequity in their contexts and consider how Teach For All partners’ shared approach will address it. The network helps these potential partners understand the network’s unifying principles, develop strategic clarity, and build support in their countries.[10]

Teach For All forms partnerships with organizations that share the same theory of change and are committed to eight unifying principles:[11]

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 run on student achievement and 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.[12]


Partners

Teach For All currently has more than 35 partner organizations around the world.[2] Within this network, Teach For All partners have placed over 65,000 teachers and impacted more than 8,000,000 children. In recent years, Teach For All partners support over 16,000 teachers impacting over 1,150,000 children annually. There have been inquiries about joining the Teach For All network from social entrepreneurs in 80 additional countries. The network expects to include partner organizations from more than 45 countries by the end of 2016.

Table of Member Organizations
Organization Name Country Year Founded
Enseñá Por Argentina Argentina 2009
Teach For Armenia Armenia 2015
Teach For Australia Australia 2009
Teach For Austria Austria 2011
Teach For Bangladesh Bangladesh 2012
Teach For Belgium Belgium 2013
Teach For Bulgaria Bulgaria 2010
Enseña Chile Chile 2007
Teach For China China 2010
Enseña Colombia Colombia 2010
Enseña Ecuador Ecuador 2013
Noored Kooli (Youth to School Estonia 2006
Teach First Deutschland Germany 2008
Anseye Pou Ayiti Haiti 2015
Teach For India India 2007
Teach First Israel Israel 2010
Teach For Japan Japan 2013
Iespējamā Misija (Mission Possible) Latvia 2008
Teach For Lebanon Lebanon 2008
Renkuosi Mokyti! (Let's Teach!) Lithuania 2012
Teach For Malaysia Malaysia 2010
Enseña Por Mexico Mexico 2013
Teach For Nepal Nepal 2012
Teach First NZ New Zealand 2011
Teach For Pakistan Pakistan 2011
Enseña Peru Peru 2010
Teach For The Philippines The Philippines 2012
Teach for Qatar Qatar 2013
Teach for Romania Romania 2014
Teach for Slovakia Slovakia 2014
Empieza Por Educar Spain 2011
Teach For Sweden Sweden 2013
Teach for Thailand Thailand 2013
Teach First United Kingdom 2001
Teach For America United States 1990
Enseña Uruguay Uruguay 2014


Requirements

All member organizations must recruit and train young leaders who will both impact students in the short-term and go on to create change through their, work across various sectors, as alumni. The Teach For All theory of change is grounded in 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.”[13] In fact, approximately 50-70% of Teach For All partners’ alumni stay in education long-term.[14] Each local organization is responsible for its governance and funding and is encouraged to develop a distinct brand and logo.[15]

Benefits

Teach For All supports partners’ “growth and development in four main ways: 1. Direct support: We share knowledge and provide direct support around critical topics, including how to build public and private sector support, recruit and select participants, develop strong teachers and alumni, and create strong organizations. As one example, because recruiting the highest-potential candidates requires relationship building, Teach For All’s recruitment specialists help network organizations develop strategies to identify top talent and convince the candidates to apply and join.

2. Facilitating connections: We invest in bringing together representatives of the international network—the CEOs, staff, teachers, and alumni—because they’re a powerful source of support and inspiration for each other. In April 2014, the Teach For All Global System Change Conference brought staff and alumni from 19 partner organizations to Santiago, Chile, for a three-day event on the topic of achieving systems change by empowering our alumni.

3. Accessing global resources: We use our position as a global organization to seek additional resources for our partners. For example: Deutsche-Post DHL provides financial support and fosters local employee engagement at nine network organizations; Credit Suisse, through financial support and via their Global Citizens Program, helps to build the capacity of Teach For All and network partner organizations; and Teach For All connects network organizations to Salesforce so that they can save time developing contact management systems.

4. Leadership development: To develop staff, participants, and alumni across the network, we pull people out of their contexts to advance thinking and expose them to diversity of thought. For example, to support network CEOs, we host monthly CEO workshops on topics such as “building a leadership team with shared ownership” and “determining when and how much to grow.” We also organize an annual retreat for the CEOs to foster relationships and introduce them to new leadership paradigms.”[16]

Andrea Pasinetti, the founder and CEO of Teach For China, 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.”[17]


Funding

Teach For All’s funding comes from five unique streams: • Major Gifts, Individuals & Foundations: Contributions from individuals and foundations at the level of $250,000 and above

• Regional Support: Donations that fund Teach For All’s support of individual partner organizations or organizations in a specified region

• Corporate Partnerships: Contributions from forward-thinking companies and partnerships that include robust engagement across both organizations

• Government & Multilateral Partnerships: Funding from governments and global multilateral organizations

• Friends of Teach For All: Individual supporters who donate up to $250,000 annually [18]

References

  1. ^ http://teachforall.org/en/about/faq
  2. ^ History. (2010). Teach For All. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
  3. ^ http://teachforall.org/en/about/faq
  4. ^ http://teachforall.org/en/about/faq
  5. ^ http://teachforall.org/en/about/faq
  6. ^ Teach For All. Skoll Foundation. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
  7. ^ http://teachforall.org/en/about/faq
  8. ^ http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/empowering_movements_for_global_education_reform
  9. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/30/opinion/friedman-meet-the-makers.html
  10. ^ http://teachforall.org/en/global-organizations
  11. ^ http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/empowering_movements_for_global_education_reform
  12. ^ http://teachforall.org/en/our-network-and-impact/national-organizations#principles
  13. ^ http://www.economist.com/news/international/21643146-programmes-place-bright-and-ambitious-graduates-poor-schools-are-spreading-around
  14. ^ http://www.economist.com/news/international/21643146-programmes-place-bright-and-ambitious-graduates-poor-schools-are-spreading-around
  15. ^ http://teachforall.org/en/about/faq
  16. ^ http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/empowering_movements_for_global_education_reform; http://teachforall.org/en/global-organization
  17. ^ http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/empowering_movements_for_global_education_reform
  18. ^ http://teachforall.org/en/about/faq

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