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PHASE 3 STRATEGY
2017-2022
CONTENT
PART 1 THE PHASES OF TEACH FOR INDIA 01
PART 2 THE PROCESS OF PHASE 3 04
PART 3 WHAT WE HOLD SACRED 09
PART 4 OUR 5 YEAR CHOICES 14
PART 5 PHASE 3: A SUMMARY 16
PART 6 2017-2022 - OUR NEXT 5 YEARS 24
TOGETHER
PART 1
THE PHASES OF
TEACH FOR INDIA
THE PHASES OF TEACH FOR INDIA
Teach For India began, eight years ago, as only an idea. It began as a belief,
moreover, that solving Indias educational crisis demanded more than a
compilation of old solutions. Reaching all children in India would demand
leadership, at every level.
In May of 2009, we welcomed our rst batch of 87 Fellows onto the stage of
Symbiosis in Pune, where they began their Institute journey. Overwhelmed
with emotion and anxiety, they held their newly-gifted Firkis, unsure of their
new designation, uncertain of what Teach For India would become. They
knew little about what would soon await them, when they stepped into 34
schools across Mumbai and Pune.
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Seven years later, Teach For India has grown from 2400 children to 38,000,
from 34 schools to 330, from 87 Fellows to 1100, from 5 staff members to 190,
from no Alumni to 1000, from a budget of 3 crores to 64 crores. We have
trained 2451 Fellows over 13 Institutes, generated more than 700,00 followers
through social and print media, built a national focus on Indias educational
crisis through our inspirED conferences, and received starting support from
seven city governments.
Our past seven years have witnessed both successes and failures. Through
all of that, we have gained immense learnings from our most
transformational classrooms - showing us all whats required to put Indias
most disadvantaged children on a different life path. Of our 1000 Alumni,
60% of them are working full-time in the education sector, with an additional
8% studying education in graduate school. Within the educational arena and
beyond, our Aumni work across sectors with one compelling shared vision:
to provide an excellent education to all of Indias children.
Despite that progress, were aware that we still stand only a few small steps
down the long path to educational equity. Hundreds of millions of Indias
children are still in need of an excellent education.
In April of 2015, we began to ask ourselves what those steps should entail. In
Phase 1 (2009 - 2013), we built clear and undeniable momentum. In Phase 2
(2013 - 2017), we diligently focused on the depth of our impact. In Phase 3,
were asking ourselves a seemingly daunting question: How do we do as
much as we can for as many children as we can?
Today, nearly twelve months later, weve grown acutely aware that the
urgency and enormity of Indias educational crisis demand that we be
prepared for that question. On the one hand, we are propelled by the need to
infuse more leaders, with the skills and beliefs needed to effect
transformational change, into Indias vast educational system. Every
additional high-quality leader committed to educational equity is of critical
importance. On the other hand, we are cognizant that the the number of
Alumni next year will outgrow the number of Fellows. Given the sheer
magnitude of our vision - one day, all children in India will attain an excellent
education - we believe that we must focus on both: we must continue driving
depth and impact through our Fellowship, but we must also urgently
accelerate the impact and enormous potential of our Alumni. 2
PART 2
THE PROCESS OF
PHASE 3
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THE PROCESS OF PHASE 3
Under the guidance of our Phase 3 facilitators, Craig Johnson and Joseph
Cubas, and our external consultant Avi Patchava, we constituted a 50
member Planning Committee largely responsible for ideation, as well as a
Core Committee who would drive the Phase 3 process and work closely with
the Teach For India Board. We released a survey to our wider community of
Fellows, Staff and Alumni, held focus groups, and conducted interviews with
external stakeholders. We designed three retreats with our Planning
Committee, received continuous feedback from our Board, and met weekly
as a Core Team to push our collective thinking forward. Through the process,
we held Phase 3 sessions across all Teach For India cities to gather inputs
from Fellows, Alumni and Staff.
Post the Retreat, our Core Team synthesized those inputs to form an initial
consortium of ideas, including an overarching intended impact statement:
Our rst Planning Committee Retreat further explored a set of pre-crafted Big
Goals - a series of ambitious and measurable milestones for Phase 3. The
50-member committee later began generating a list of initial Possibilities -
varying approaches to reach our outcomes - which ranged from partnerships
with graduate schools that could co-lead the Fellowship to even adapting the
Fellowship for key inuencers, such as government ofcials.
A set of four criteria were subsequently used to prioritize and choose from
the list of more than 55 proposed Possibilities.
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To support these possibilities, the Core Committee identied a list of
Enablers that would buttress the long-term health and infrastructure of the
organization -
Team members committed to drafting the strategic plan not only consulted
individual experts, but also conducted independent research to ensure
approaches were informed by best practices. Some of our biggest ndings
and inection points over the past nine months include the following:
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LEARNING, REFLECTION,
BELIEF in POTENTIAL,
OPENNESS to FEEDBACK,
HOPE, PURPOSE DRIVEN,
ALL VOICES MATTER,
KID at CENTRE,
EXCELLENCE,
POTENTIAL, LIGHT
CONTINUOUS LEARNING
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PART 3
As we move into Phase 3, there are some things that we will hold not just
constant, but sacred. These make up our unique organizational identity - one
that we wish to preserve as our journey progresses over the next ve years.
Notably absent from the list below are our core values. While our values, in
many ways, are perhaps most sacred to us, we are currently undergoing an
intensive review to arrive at a revised and simplied set of core values.
Taken together, the Vision and Mission form the bedrock on which our
entire organization is built; they are eternal and immutable - a north star
that will guide our actions for all time.
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Quality and Scale
While these ideals might seem paradoxical, we believe that India demands
that we always strive for both quality and scale.
Teach For Indias leadership philosophy is rooted in the belief that great
teachers are best positioned to impact student outcomes; our philosophy
further states that teaching in impoverished, under-resourced conditions
is, ultimately, an act of leadership. In the pursuit of battling systemic
inequities and ghting against all odds, our Fellows undergo a
transformational experience where deep leadership mindsets and skills
can be forged. These mindsets and skills (e.g. vision-setting; strategic
planning; stakeholder investment) are commensurate with the
competencies todays leaders need to succed. Thus, the fact that teachers
matter and the belief that teaching is leadership will continue to inform all
aspects of our program in the future, even if the nuances and specics of
our approach to Training and Development evolve.
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Academics and Values
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short-term that recruits individuals with leadership potential and facilitates
a powerful grassroots experience where they grow as leaders, while also
supporting them in their life-long journey towards achieving our vision in
the long-term.
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PART 4
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THE FOUR CHOICES TILL 2022
As we think about the next 5 years, we are both cognizant of Indias daunting
need yet equally aware of the limitations underlying our resources and
capabilities. We have therefore made certain overarching choices for Phase
3. These choices are born from our current understanding of what will most
impact our children, Fellows and Alumni.
Geographic Language
We will grow from seven cities, to nine regions We will continue to place predominantly in
that expand the geographic boundaries of English medium schools, but will expand our
where we work. In addition to having a presence reach to semi-English and vernacular schools as
in the North, South and West of India, we will well. Where we place Fellows in English
add two sites in the East. We believe that the medium, we will work to ensure that our
additions will give us a presence across each children have strong second language
major region of India. instruction in their mother tongue. Where we
place Fellows in vernacular medium, we will
work to ensure that our children have strong
second language instruction in English. Our
belief continues to be that while children require
prociency in their mother tongue, English is an
important skill that will increase their chances
of employability and their ability to access
information in a global, interconnected world.
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PART 5
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THE PHASE 3 STRATEGY - A SUMMARY
Our Phase III Strategy, found below, can be best explained through ve
essential components:
We believe those relationships and denitions are only altered when impact
happens, at scale. Phase 3 is therefore rooted in the dual pursuit of depth and
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breadth. On the one hand, were aiming to continuously rene our practice
and deepen our program; on the other, we intended to expand and accelerate
our impact.
Why one million? We believe that the enormity of India's educational crisis
demands thinking that is both bold and ambitious. It is in the pursuit of
accelerating our impact, therefore, that our goal of one million was born. The
'one-million goal,' achieved through our Fellows, Alums, and Partners
together, forces our community to begin thinking about the scale and
complexity of India's educational crisis.
It is our belief that holding this aspirational goal post will enable us to
redene and demonstrate collective action towards an excellent education at
scale.
WHAT
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II. Regional - We will tailor our solutions to the diversity of Indias
children, ensuring that interventions are regional instead of one
standardized national approach.
III. Schools - We will center strategic solutions around a common unit
of change - the school - and accordingly prioritize the development of
a shared vision around children within the school.
IV. Systemic - We will root strategy in a well-researched body of ten key
levers to effect educational change.
To guide our strategic shifts, our initial research has helped us prioritize a list
11 key levers for systemic change in education - early Childhood
of ten
Development, Teaching and Teacher Development, School Leadership and
Community Engagement, Curriculum and Assessment, Technology in
Education, School Finance and Resources, Education Policy and
Management Systems, Student Health and Nutrition, Private Sector
Engagement and Tertiary Education,and Equity and Workforce
Workforce Development.
Development.
Our learnings from the past seven years have been insightful on the diversity
and complexity of India: our impact has undoubtedly been greatest when our
strategy has been tailored to the contexts and voices of the regions and
communities we serve.
We will continue to operate within our current seven cities (Mumbai, Pune,
Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad), but will begin
redening the boundaries to include surrounding semi-rural areas. The newly
envisioned sites will therefore now be called regions.
1. semi-rural/rural settings
2. vernacular medium schools
3. schools that lie outside of our nine regions.
While our Alumni will naturally be working in areas across India, we will
similarly focus 90% of our direct Alumni support on leaders within our
regions and working within one of our ten prioritized puzzle pieces. 10% of
our support will be on Alumni identied as having a high potential for impact
beyond our regions; these projects will simultaneously serve as learnings for
Phase Four.
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HOW
The nine-month planning exercise that encapsulated our preparation for
Phase 3 has largely reinforced a foundational pillar of our approach -
leadership development. Over the next ve years, we will shift and widen our
approach to include four types of leaders working together - Students,
Fellows, Alumni, and Staff - but we will continue honing our abilities to
develop and grow these four bodies.
What: Recruit, select, and develop 6000 Fellow & Alumni Leaders who, in the short
term, transform the lives of their students and, in the long term, become lifelong
advocates for educational equity.
How: We will simultaneously focus on depth and scale. By 2022, we will double the
size of our Fellowship. We will also make dramatic investments in our abilities to
better recruit, select, and develop Fellows that are committed to leading
transformational change in both the short and long term.
What: Develop and cultivate 10,000 Student Leaders who not only act as proof
points of what's possible, but also help other children access an excellent
education.
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THE TALENT INCUBATOR
Why: Alumni within ventures and key prioritized puzzle pieces currently face a
daunting litany of entry barriers that prevent both impact and career interest.
What: Support Alumni to enter key roles or launch new organizations within
prioritized puzzle pieces, particularly where barriers to entry are high but the
potential for impact is large.
How: Together with partners, design and implement leadership development and
skill-building programs tailored to Alumni working within prioritized pathways.
What: Empower Alumni to create collaborative spaces, both virtual and in-person,
to foster a culture of shared inspiration, support, and learning throughout the
Alumni network.
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ENABLERS
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PART 6
2017-2022
OUR NEXT 5 YEARS TOGETHER
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2017-2022
OUR NEXT 5 YEARS TOGETHER
We believe that our ve year vision - ensuring that one million children attain
an excellent education - will necessitate a multidimensional approach that
spans boundaries. On the one hand, we must deepen and expand our
understanding of an excellent education. On the other hand, we must
urgently develop thousands of proof points, while working collectively across
our regions to address a set of key levers that are best positioned to elicit
systemic change.
While the table below attempts to illustrate this vision, we intend to remain
both exible and nimble. Driven by the belief that opportunities will arise and
landscapes will change, we must always ensure we never sacrice our
commitment to our vision and mission.
Total Alumni
2079 2667 3352 4188 5109 6190
Total Student
Maya leaders 400 1200 2800 5900 12300 12300
Total children
our Student NA 4000 14000 33000 70000 1,50,000
Leaders
Impact
Number of 25 75 150 150 200 225
Incubator Alumni
covered
Number of
25 75 150 150 200 225
Accelerator Alumni
covered
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2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Number of
Circle Alumni 600 1200 1800 2000 2500 3000
covered
Number of NA 6 16 31 31 31
TFIx entrepreneurs
Total
leaders Student 1800 6600 14100 22800
impacted
1223 1349 1690 1952 2224 2400
Fellow
*this is illustrative
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We will close Phase 3 having:
Supported
Launched Alumni Accelerated
Alumni startups in the impact of
circles across prioritized our Alumni
the country puzzle pieces
Infused
signicant Developed
partnerships Captured and
talent into the
to raise the shared our
Education and
resources we learning
Development
Sector require
Attracted, Inuenced
developed and Held our
government
retained Core Values
& other
exceptional close to our
key stake
people heart
holders
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