The CEOs of Teach For All's partner organizations
Mission and Model
Partners of Teach For All are dedicated to pursuing a common mission and commit to the following five principles:
- 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
- Training and developing participants so they build the skills, mindsets, and knowledge needed to maximize impact on student achievement
- Placing participants as teachers for two years in regular beginning teaching positions in areas of educational need, with clear accountability for their classrooms
- Accelerating the leadership of alumni by fostering the network between them and creating clear and compelling paths to leadership for expanding educational opportunity
- 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
Teach For All partners share three common organizational design features that are critical to successful implementation of our model and mission:
- 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
- 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
- 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
Organizations that are aligned to our unifying principles, demonstrate the capacity to implement an aligned program, and demonstrate commitment to our core values are eligible to become partners in the Teach For All network. Teach For All provides partners with various types of support, including:
- Deepening understanding of this model and building commitment to it around the world
- Building the network's knowledge base and supporting partners in applying it to their contexts
- Facilitating high-impact direct connections across the network, thus fostering the leadership development of teaching participants, alumni, and staff
- Generating additional resources internationally that individual programs may be unable to access