About Teach For India

Teach For India was founded in 2008. Inspired by Teach For America’s journey, we worked with McKinsey & Company to craft a blueprint around the belief that all children must attain an excellent education.

| History
| People
| Theory of Change
| Innovations

History

2009-2013: Building Momentum

2009 Mumbai and Pune sites launch.
2011 Delhi site launches, Alumni movement starts.
2012 Chennai and Hyderabad sites launch,
InspirED Conference sparks dialogue in education.
Our Students move from elementary to secondary school, and our first Students graduate.
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2013-2017: Deepening Impact

2013 Broadway-inspired Maya Musical sets a new bar.
2014 Redrawing India, the first book about us, published.
2014 Ahmedabad site launches.
2015 Bengaluru site launches.
2016 InnovatEd launches to support early-stage Alumni education entrepreneurs,
Firki, our teacher education platform, launches.
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2017-2022: Balancing Depth, Scale And Innovation

2017 TFIx launches to support education entrepreneurs across India who serve children in need.
2018 The Kids Education Revolution launches to reimagine education in partnership with children.
2019 Grey Sunshine, the second book about us, published,
The Greatest Show on Earth - a musical on the status of India's education staged.
2020 Community support through Covid including ration and device distributions.
2021 Kolkata site launches,
Campaign to re-open schools,
Our Students return to schools.
2024 TFI turns 15.

Today, we are a movement of 900 Fellows teaching 33,000 children and 4,500+ Alumni who are collectively reaching 50 million children across India.

People

Teach For India is a Teach To Lead project governed by a committed Board of Trustees.

Teach For India is a part of the Teach For All Network, a growing group of independent organisations working on expanding educational opportunities in their nations. The 60 countries in the network today share a common vision of an excellent education for all children.

Theory of Change

Meaningful change happens when we cultivate a collective force of leaders. Driven by the vision of an India free of poverty and filled with love, our leaders choose education as the path to get there. Over the next decade, we aspire to build a movement of 50,000 leaders. They will work collectively, with love, to transform the lives of 1 in 10 children from low-income communities in and beyond our regions.

We Build Leaders

We find committed people for our two-year Fellowship. We place them in low-income or government schools where they work relentlessly to transform the lives of their students. We support them as they find careers within and beyond the education sector.

We Nurture A Movement Of Leaders

After the Fellowship, our Fellows have lifelong access to our Alumni movement. This close-knit, supportive community learns and acts together for educational equity.

Within Education

Our Alumni work to transform schools and communities, join or start organisations to support education and work within government.

Beyond Education

Our Alumni work in careers in research, law, media, government and business and find ways to continue to advocate for educational equity.

Transformational Schools: They choose to be teachers, teacher trainers and leaders in schools or community centres.

Enablers of Transformational Schools: They support schools through curriculum, assessment reform, large-scale teacher training, and ed tech.

Policy and Governance: They work on policy and governance issues, supporting governments directly on large-scale systemic reforms in education.

Innovations

While Teach For India's Flagship programme is the two-year Teach For India Fellowship, we also run other programmes to build leadership.

If you are a Pre-service educator, a Teacher, a Teacher Coach or a School Leader:

Firki is an online teacher development portal which has courses aligned to content and pedagogy and carefully curated resources. Firki runs online learning programs for pre-service educators, teachers, school leaders and coaches in partnership with organisations and educational institutions.

If you have completed your Teach For India Fellowship and An Early-Stage Entrepreneur:

InnovatED is a platform for training and supporting entrepreneurs looking to build impactful organisations in education. It helps early-stage education entrepreneurs navigate the complexities of establishing and sustaining a new organisation, enabling them to create an impact.

If you are a Student:

The Kids Education Revolution is a platform for students and educators to reimagine education by building student voice, partnership and leadership.

If you are an Education Entrepreneur:

TFIx is an incubator for education entrepreneurs across India who aspire to launch their own contextualised versions of Teach For India's Fellowship to serve vulnerable children in their region.

If you are a Government Official:

Our Government Relations vertical looks for opportunities to place Alumni within the government to work on education projects. We offer a range of Student and teacher resources that can be used at scale to reimagine education. We thought-partner with the government on educational leadership and Student voice.

About Teach For India

History

2009-2013: Building Momentum

2013-2017: Deepening Impact

2017-2022: Balancing Depth, Scale And Innovation

Today, we are a movement of 900 Fellows teaching 33,000 children and 4,500+ Alumni who are collectively reaching 50 million children across India.

People

Teach To Lead Trustees

National Advisory Board

Our Leadership Team

Regional Advisory Board Bengaluru

Regional Advisory Board Chennai

Regional Advisory Board Delhi

Regional Advisory Board Kolkata

Regional Advisory Board Pune