Influencing the Global
Discussion
Teach For All works to elevate the diverse voices and perspectives from across our network to inform the global discussion about what it will take to meet the commitments of the United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Fostering belief and understanding about developing collective leadership as a path to system change in education
We advocate for what it will take to reorient education to develop students holistically as leaders and for the investment in the collective leadership required to reshape systems towards this purpose.
Speaking Up for Students at the Transforming Education Summit
A reflection by Teach For India student alumna, Shruit Belitkar
Advocating for Educational Transformation at the United Nations
A reflection by Enseña por México alumna Daniela González
We Can All Be Leaders of Change In Transforming Education
A blog post by Leonardo Garnier of the UN and Anna Molero of Teach For All
To Transform Education We Will Need to Do a lot of Unlearning
An op-ed by Teach For All’s CEO & Co-Founder, Wendy Kopp
Becoming a global learning hub for how to transform our education systems
Our First Book
Teach For All's first book "What Leadership Do We Need Now? Voices From the Teach For All Network on How We Can Shape a Better Future" comprises 27 essays that explore the kind of leadership we need to develop in our students, teachers, and ourselves through the perspectives of teachers, students, alumni, and staff members from across the network.
Teach For All's first book "What Leadership Do We Need Now? Voices From the Teach For All Network on How We Can Shape a Better Future" comprises 27 essays that explore the kind of leadership we need to develop in our students, teachers, and ourselves through the perspectives of teachers, students, alumni, and staff members from across the network.
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Teach For All Learning Forum
We host regular forums to share what our global network is learning with our supporters and allies. In each discussion, we explore a topic in depth together with a group of leaders from across the network.
We host regular forums to share what our global network is learning with our supporters and allies. In each discussion, we explore a topic in depth together with a group of leaders from across the network.
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Working to shift the international development paradigm through a people-first approach
Teach For All is helping to catalyze the People First Community, a cross-sectoral and globally diverse group of practitioners, academics, and public and private sector actors with a shared belief in the importance of prioritizing investing in collective leadership development as a path for sustainable development.
To learn more, visit the People First Community website and LinkedIn page, and reach out to people@peoplefirstdev.org
Strengthening education systems through government and multilateral partnerships
Teach For All partners with like-minded public and private sector partners working in education and across sectors to transform the systems that hold children back and to ensure that all children are able to fulfill their potential.
- Novice Educator Support and Training (NEST): Launched in February 2021, the NEST project explores the question of what an effective programme for novice teachers and their mentors should look like. The main goal is to demonstrate that the NEST training program for mentors is an effective solution to support novice teachers working in disadvantaged schools, and ultimately influence national policies that enhance education systems. Overall, 450+ mentors from 39 regions are being trained across the EU through the NEST project, who are supporting 1300+ novice teachers. Project partners include Teach For All network partners in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Romania, and Spain; Ministries of Education; educational unions; and a university that is leading the evaluation of the NEST intervention.
- A New Way For Talents in Teaching (NEWTT): This project piloted and tested alternative pathways to teacher certification in five EU Member States to inform EU-wide policy. See the final project results.
- From Innovators in Inclusive Education to Real Scale Transfer (FIERST): The objective of this project is to scale locally generated best practices for inclusive education.
- The USAID Bureau for the Middle East and the Teach For All global organization have been working in partnership since 2018 to support Teach For All network partners in the MENA region. As part of the partnership, Teach For All has been working along prospective partners to launch new network organizations, such as Teach For Morocco, which successfully transitioned to formally becoming the first network partner in North Africa in 2019. Teach For All is also providing technical assistance activities to both Teach For Morocco and Teach For Lebanon to accelerate their long-term growth and sustainability, including support to strengthen their organizational capacity and their monitoring and evaluation systems.
- USAID Latin America and the Caribbean partnership: Through the Leadership for Change in Education Program, Enseña por Colombia, Enseña Ecuador, Enseña por Paraguay, Teach For All's global organization, and USAID are partnering to improve the quality of education for children and youth in Latin America and the Caribbean. To achieve this, network partners focus on cultivating and developing collective leadership across different levels of the region’s education systems and Teach For All promotes cross-border learning and capacity strengthening of network partner organizations.
The objective of this project is to scale-up and study Teach For Pakistan’s model for recruitment, development, and management of teachers and education leaders, and gather evidence that can inform education reform in Pakistan and other similar contexts.
Recent Articles and Publications
Rewiring Education for People and Planet
This Education Commission report features Teach For All and Wendy Kopp and identifies collective leadership as the first critical driver of delivery of a sustained education transformation
A “People-First” Approach to Locally Led, Globally Informed Development
This working paper makes the case for shifting the power to drive development to local stakeholders, and prioritizing their leadership and agency
The Ukrainians teaching in a war zone: bombed-out schools, evacuations and board games
The Guardian highlighted Teach For Ukraine's efforts to keep children learning despite the war
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