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About the Organization

Teach For All is a growing global network of independent partner organizations in over 50 countries united by the purpose of developing collective leadership to ensure all children have the opportunity to fulfill their potential. Each network partner recruits and develops promising future leaders to teach in their nations’ under-resourced schools and communities and, with this foundation, to work throughout their lives, from inside and outside of education, to ensure all children are able to fulfill their potential. Teach For All’s global organization works to increase the network’s impact by capturing and spreading learning, facilitating connections among partners, accessing global resources, and fostering the leadership development of partner staff, teachers, and alumni. By 2030, the network expects to include partner organizations in over 90 countries, developing more than 20,000 teachers and over 150,000 alumni leaders who, working collectively with many others, will reshape the systems that impact children’s lives.

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The world’s most disadvantaged children have the least access to quality education.

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Teach For All extends Teach For America’s innovations to developing countries.

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Wendy Kopp seeks to provide disadvantaged students with a new source of talented, committed teachers while building a corps of leaders to support excellence.

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TFA has 20 national organizations with 11,000 teachers and 26,000 alumni worldwide.

Ambition for Change

The Teach For All network’s long-term vision is that by 2040, communities in every part of the world are equipping all of their children with the education, support, and opportunity to shape a better future for themselves and all of us—and that these communities are inspiring and informing a worldwide movement to achieve this everywhere.

Path to Scale

Teach For All’s global organization fosters the growth of the network by building awareness of the network’s approach and supporting local entrepreneurs to launch new organizations. Since 2007, the network has grown from two partners to over 50. Partners scale through a shared approach to developing collective leadership.

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Wendy Kopp

CEO & Co-Founder, Teach for All

Wendy Kopp founded Teach For America in 1989 to marshal the energy of her generation towards expanding opportunity for marginalized children in the United States. After 24 years as the organization’s CEO, she moved out of the role to devote her attention to Teach For All, which she launched in 2007 in response to social entrepreneurs interested in pursuing a similar approach in their countries. Teach For All is a global network of organizations in more than 50 countries that seek to develop collective leadership to ensure all children fulfill their potential by recruiting promising leaders to teach, investing in their training and development, and fostering their ongoing leadership as a force for systemic change.

Impact & Accomplishments
  • Together, Teach For All network organizations are deploying more than 14,000 teachers in the midst of their initial two-year commitment to teach nearly 1,000,000 children.
  • More than 65,000 alumni have emerged from network partner organizations, of which more than 70 percent are still contributing to education systems in various ways (e.g. as teachers, government officials, social entrepreneurs, and more) while others are tackling related systemic issues such as policy and health. A growing body of research highlights that the students taught by Teach For All partner organizations’ participants are showing significant academic and non-academic gains in the classroom, that Teach For All partner organizations are changing mindsets and career choices of their teaching participants in order to build a force of leadership committed to ensuring all children can thrive, and that Teach For All partners are contributing to system-wide change.
Affiliated
Henry Anumudu
Strategic Communications, Teach for All
Anna Molero
Chief Government Officer, Teach for All
Vongai Nyahunzvi
Head of Africa and Chief Network Officer, Teach for All
Lucy Ashman
Director, Social Innovation, Teach for All
Diane Robinson
Global Special Projects Lead, Teach for All
Wendy Kopp
CEO & Co-Founder, Teach for All
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