In order to secure access to quality education for all children, Teach For India catalyses a movement of leaders working to ensure that circumstances do not dictate a child’s opportunities in life. This is our two-part theory of change.

Our Theory of Change

Our two-part theory of change aims to create a sustainable movement of leaders committed to educational equity in the long run, the foundation of which is the Fellowship.

1

Find promising leadersWe recruit and select high-potential candidates to serve as Fellows who commit to teach for two years, full-time, in India’s under-resourced schools.

2

Impact schools and communitiesOur Fellows not only provide their students with a quality education that fulfils their academic needs, but also impact their schools and communities through targeted initiatives and projects that make for their holistic development.

3

Cultivate lifelong leadershipFaced with diverse challenges in their classrooms and schools, our Fellows gain leadership skills and values, and commit to leveraging these skills to continue working towards educational equity.

4

Infuse Alumni across puzzle piecesServing in positions of leadership and influence at every level of the system, our Alumni are impacting children and effecting change across India in different capacities.

Innovate and scaleOur innovation cell was put into motion to realize our vision more effectively, and scale with greater speed. We not only recruit and select promising leaders, but we also support their leadership journeys as they work to provide India’s children with greater opportunity. Over time, we accelerate their collective leadership towards the vision of an excellent education for all children.

short-term

In the short-term, through our Fellowship program, we provide an opportunity to India’s brightest and most promising individuals, from the nation’s best universities and workplaces, to serve as full-time teachers to children from low-income communities in some of the nation’s most under-resourced schools. Through this experience of teaching in classrooms and working with key education stakeholders like students, principals, and parents, our Fellows get exposed to the grassroots realities of India’s education system and begin to cultivate the knowledge, skills, and mindsets necessary to attain positions of leadership in the education system and identify their role in building a larger movement for equity in education.

long-term

In the long-term, we engage these leaders, our Alumni, and support this growing community to advocate for change. Our Alumni work in diverse roles within the education sector, as teachers, teacher-trainers, school principals, curriculum designers, and education policy researchers, as well as in the ecosystem surrounding and supporting the education sector, as journalists, lawyers, health experts, entrepreneurs, and corporate leaders, all with a shared purpose to build a broad people’s movement for educational equity that will accelerate progress towards that day when all children in India have the opportunity to attain an excellent education so that we, as a nation, can find our light and our true potential.

Why we do
what we do

Education is fundamental to an equitable society. An excellent education equips youth with the knowledge, skills, values, and mindsets needed to be empowered individuals and responsible citizens. The truth is that today, the socio-economic circumstances that children are born into determines the type of school they attend, the kinds of co-curricular opportunities that are available to them, the quality of life outcomes they attain as an adult, and the kinds of opportunities passed onto the next generation.

30%

30% OF THE WORLD’S POOREST CHILDREN, 116 MILLION CHILDREN, LIVE IN INDIA

47%

47% OF 14 YEAR OLDS IN INDIA CANNOT READ ENGLISH SENTENCES

67%

67% OF KIDS IN INDIA DO NOT MAKE IT TO GRADE 10

75%

75% OF YOUTH IN INDIA ARE NOT ENROLLED IN COLLEGE

There is a severe deficit of people at all levels of the education system who are committed to working together to improve the capacity and quality of our nation’s schools. The fact is that teachers alone cannot solve this crisis; we also need excellent school principals to support those teachers, informed parents to stay engaged with the teaching-learning process in schools, visionary bureaucrats and politicians to create an environment that enables principals and teachers to thrive, active civil society leaders to hold stakeholders accountable, and committed corporate leaders to mobilize MOBILISE the necessary resources to support school systems. Teach For India exists precisely to fill this deficit of leadership in education.

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