Teach For All

Teach For All
Founded 2007
Founder Wendy Kopp, and Brett Wigdortz, Co-founders
Type Nonprofit organization
Focus Eliminate Educational Inequity
Location
Key people
 Wendy Kopp - Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer
Brett Wigdortz - Co-founder
Nick Canning - Chief Operating Officer
Slogan One day, all children will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.
Website teachforall.org

Teach For All is a global network of 40 independent, locally led and funded partner organizations[1] whose stated shared mission is “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 (CEO of Teach First). Teach For All works to accelerate partners’ progress and increase their impact by capturing and sharing knowledge, facilitating connections across the network, accessing global resources for the benefit of the whole, and fostering leadership development of staff, teachers, and alumni.[4]

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.[5] Since its launch at the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2007,[6] Teach For All has grown to include 40 partners on six continents 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

Teach For All is a network of independent, locally led and locally funded 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. 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 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 and expanded opportunity for the students they teach and the communities in which they work in.[1]

Teach For All is based on the concept of global-local practice–partners launch grassroots organizations in their countries and belong to a global network of organizations.[9] 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.”[10] The global network exists to help organizations climb the learning curve more quickly and benefit from a shared knowledge base.[1] The Teach For All approach is demand driven; the organization almost universally is approached by already established efforts interested in joining the network rather than proactively spreading the approach.[9]

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

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[11]

Partners

Teach For All currently has 40 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.[12] 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
Enseñá por ArgentinaArgentina2009
Ensina BrasilBrazil2016
Teach For ArmeniaArmenia2015
Teach For AustraliaAustralia2009
Teach For AustriaAustria2011
Teach For BangladeshBangladesh2012
Teach For BelgiumBelgium2013
Teach For BulgariaBulgaria2010
Enseña ChileChile2007
Teach For ChinaChina2010
Enseña por ColombiaColombia2010
Teach First DanmarkDenmark2015
Enseña EcuadorEcuador2013
Noored Kooli (Youth to School)Estonia2006
Teach For FranceFrance2015
Teach First DeutschlandGermany2008
Teach For GhanaGhana2016
Anseye Pou AyitiHaiti2015
Teach For IndiaIndia2007
Teach First IsraelIsrael2010
Teach For JapanJapan2012
Iespējamā Misija (Mission Possible)Latvia2008
Teach For LebanonLebanon2008
Renkuosi Mokyti! (Let’s Teach!)Lithuania2012
Teach For MalaysiaMalaysia2011
Enseña por MéxìcoMéxìco2013
Teach For NepalNepal2012
Teach First NZNew Zealand2011
Enseña por PanamáPanama2015
EnseñaPerúPeru2010
Teach for the PhilippinesThe Philippines2012
Teach For QatarQatar2013
Teach For RomaniaRomania2014
Teach For SlovakiaSlovakia2014
Empieza por EducarSpain2011
Teach For SwedenSweden2013
Teach For ThailandThailand2013
Teach FirstUnited Kingdom2001
Teach For AmericaUnited States1990
Enseña UruguayUruguay2014

Requirements

All member organizations must recruit diverse and outstanding leaders who will both impact students in the short-term and go on to create systemic change in various sectors as alumni.[13] The Teach For All theory of change is based on raising up “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.”[14] In fact, approximately 50-70% of Teach For All partners’ alumni stay in education long-term.[14] 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]

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 system change by empowering our alumni.

3. 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.”[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Perlman Robinson, Jenny & Winthrop, Rebecca (April 2016). “Millions Learning: Scaling up Quality education in Developing Countries”. Brookings Institution. Retrieved 18 April 2016
  2. ↑ Woodburn, Greg (15 September 2014). “Teach For All’”. Huffington Post Blog. Retrieved 4 April 2016
  3. 1 2 Reuters (13 August 2015). “Western Union Foundation Announces Grants Supporting Teach For All Education Programs across Several Countries”. Retrieved 4 April 2016
  4. 1 2 3 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 4 April 2016.
  5. ↑ Machuca Castillo, Gabriela (5 April 2014). “Modelo a Seguir”. Somos. Retrieved 18 April 2016
  6. ↑ Dillon, Sam (21 September 2011). “Global Effort to Recruit Teachers Expand”. The New York Times. Retrieved 18 April 2016
  7. ↑ Charity Navigator (September 2015). “Teach for All Inc” - Form 990 Revenue Amount. Retrieved 5 April 2016
  8. ↑ “Teach For All”. Skoll Foundation. Retrieved 5 April 2016
  9. 1 2 Beck, E. (19 June 2010). “Project: Teach For All”. The Design Observer Group. Retrieved 18 April 2016
  10. ↑ Friedman, Thomas (29 October 2013). “Meet the Makers”. The New York Times. Retrieved 5 April 2016
  11. ↑ Rosalind Wiggins Z., Rosalind (November 2013). “PromiseNet: Toward A More Unified Network?” Yale School of Management Case Study. Retrieved 18 April 2016
  12. ↑ Rayner, Christine (March 2015). “A Different Class”. DHL Magazine. Retrieved 18 April 2016
  13. ↑ Cumsille, Belen, and Fiszbein, Ariel (20 April 2015). “Crème de la Crème: The Teach For All Experience and its Lessons for Policy-Making In Latin America”. Education Policy Analysis Archives. Retrieved 18 April 2016
  14. 1 2 (14 February 2015). “High-fliers in the classroom”. The Economist. Retrieved 18 April 2016
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