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THE COLORS
OF REIMAGINING
EDUCATION
A Decade of Teach For India
My skin is kind of sort of brownish, pinkish yellowish white.
My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I'm told they look orange in the night.
My hair is reddish blondish brown, but it's silver when it's wet.
And all the colors I am inside, have not been invented yet.
- “Colors,” by Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends.

A decade of Teach For India
and the road ahead
This deck outlines how Teach For India has grown to be the largest, most
aspirational Fellowship for the social sector. Over the last decade, we’ve set up
a Fellowship program that has proven impact for accelerating both
student learning and Fellow leadership development. 75,000
people have applied to the Fellowship and 3600 have
been selected. Our 2500 Alumni who have completed
the Fellowship serve at all levels of the
educational ecosystem, from leading
change in classrooms to leading change
in policy.
The road to the

end of educational
inequity is curved and long.
In our next five years we aspire to double the number of Alumni we
are fueling into the system, educating one million children directly and
millions more indirectly.
Table of contents
WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO
WHAT WE DO
OUR IMPACT
WHERE WE ARE GOING
WHY SUPPORT TEACH FOR INDIA

Embedded in our constitution is a social
contract founded on the promise of
justice, liberty, equality and fraternity
for all Indian citizens. We believe that this
promise forms the bedrock of our nation’s
ideals and must first be delivered within
our classrooms; the place where every
Indian’s journey begins. We believe that
our classrooms must mirror the social
justice we hope to see across the country.
We believe that the purpose of education
is to fully unleash every child’s potential.
We believe that India will not only be more
free and just, but also more equitable and
more compassionate.
“ What will it take to build a young leader for India with the intellect of Nehru,
the moral fibre of Gandhiji, and the compassion of Mother Teresa? ”
- Tarun Cherukuri, Teach For India Alumnus
and Founder, INDUS action
India’s education crisis

runs wide and deep
SIZE OF THE PROBLEM DEPTH OF THE PROBLEM
30% 25% 47% 57% 67% 75%
OF THE WORLD’S POOREST CHILDREN, OF THE GLOBAL OF 14 YEAR OLDS OF 14-18 YEAR OLDS IN OF KIDS IN INDIA OF YOUTH IN INDIA
116 MILLION CHILDREN, WORKFORCE BY IN INDIA CANNOT READ INDIA CANNOT SOLVE DO NOT MAKE ARE NOT ENROLLED
LIVE IN INDIA 2025 WILL BE INDIAN ENGLISH SENTENCES SIMPLE DIVISION IT TO GRADE 10 IN COLLEGE
Our education crisis will have severe repercussions

Our children today fail to receive the academic foundation or the 21st century skills
required to succeed. With more than 172 million Indians living under $2 (₹ 136) a day, our
children face severe socio-economic disadvantages. This educational inequity has lasting
implications on national productivity and global competitiveness. Only 45.6% of our
students - our future workforce - were found to be employable. In the most recent PISA
Assessment, an international assessment that measures 15-year-old students’
competence in reading, mathematics and science, India ranked 72 out of 73 countries,
only scoring higher than Kyrgyzstan.
The last decade has shown us

that change is happening.
But it is slow.
Access has improved dramatically
Over the past decade, government initiatives have led to 96% of our children accessing primary
school within a one kilometer distance, and 92% of them accessing secondary school within a three
kilometer distance. 1
A growing literacy rate

When India gained independence in 1947, 17% of the population was literate. By 2015, the adult
literacy rate increased to 72%, with youth literacy at 90%. 2
Education as a fundamental right

The RTE Act (2009) has made education a fundamental right. Section 12 (1)(c) is the largest opportunity
in the world for children below the poverty line to be integrated, free of cost, into private schools.
Dialogue is starting
Parental demand for education, combined with competition introduced by private schools and global
pressures, has elicited a much-needed national dialogue.
The government, non-profit organizations, private sector leaders, parents, teachers and students are starting to work collectively
for sustainable, nationwide change. However, given the scale and depth of our crisis, we must accelerate the pace of change.
Sources - 1. Primary Education in India: Progress and Challenges, 2015

2. UNESCO Institute of Statistics in 2015
We believe leadership at
all levels will solve the puzzle
of inequity Curriculum &
Education
Management
Information
Assesment
Systems
Technology
in Education
Addressing the complex challenge of educational Early Childhood School Teaching

School Finance
& Resources
inequity is like solving a seemingly impossible jigsaw Education/
Development
Leadership
puzzle; successfully putting the pieces together

demands leadership and a collective
Teacher
commitment. Community
Empowerment Training
Student Health Private Sector

& Nutrition Engagement
Tertiary Education
Inclusive & Workforce
Education Development
WHAT WE DO
OUR VISION
ONE DAY, ALL CHILDREN

WILL ATTAIN AN EXCELLENT EDUCATION
OUR MISSION
TO BUILD A MOVEMENT OF LEADERS

TO ELIMINATE EDUCATIONAL INEQUITY
We root what we do and
who we are in our core values
REFLECTION INTEGRITY EXCELLENCE SENSE OF LOVE

POSSIBILITY
We look at our own We live by our We don’t compare We set bold, ambitious We care deeply about
actions and mindsets in commitments and ourselves to the goals and expectations what we do and treat
order to progress. We ensure they are aligned alternative, but set an in order to meet our others with empathy,
give and receive honest with our words and urgent and ambitious vision. We approach our respect, compassion
feedback. We believe actions. We are honest bar that we keep work and new ideas and gratitude. We keep
that learning from our with others and pushing higher. with openness and children at the center of
mistakes makes us ourselves. optimism. everything we do and
stronger. do whatever it takes for
them.
WHAT WE DO
We aim to work in communities

with the highest need
Who is an average government school child?
MYTH FACT
Government school students are children In most cities today, children of drivers and maids attend
from low income families – for example, private schools. Government schools increasingly cater to
the children of drivers and maids. populations in an even lower income bracket, and often
this includes children from migrant families.
Average family income of a driver/ maid’s Average family income of a Teach For India/government
family is ₹30,000 or $430 per month. school child is ₹15,000 or $215 per month.
Who are Teach For India kids?

Today our Fellows work with 38,000 students
Grade 2 1 year
Grade 3 2 years
36.8% Grade 4 3 years
Private 50% 50% Grade 5 4 years
Male Female Grade 6 5 years
63.2%
Government Grade 7 6 years
Grade 8 7 years
Grade 9 8 years
9 years
BY SCHOOL TYPE BY GENDER BY GRADE BY YEAR OF INTERVENTION
Top 5 challenges Teach For India kids continue to face
MALNUTRITION VIOLENCE INFRASTRUCTURAL LACK OF GOOD MIGRATION

AND STUNTING AND ABUSE ISSUES: LIGHT, HEALTH AND BETWEEN CITY
WATER ETC SANITATION AND VILLAGE
WHAT WE DO
Our model catalyzes

collective leadership 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
Find promising leaders opportunity. Over time, we accelerate their
We recruit and select high-potential candidates to serve as collective leadership towards our vision.
Fellows who commit to teach for two years, full-time, in India’s
low-income schools.
Impact schools and communities

Our Fellows not only provide their students with a holistic
education, they also impact their schools and communities
through targeted initiatives.
Cultivate lifelong leadership

Faced with diverse challenges in their classrooms and schools, our
Fellows develop into leaders who complete the program committed
to working relentlessly towards realizing educational equity.
Infuse Alumni across puzzle pieces

Education
Management
Curriculum &
Information
Assesment
Systems
Technology
in Education
Serving in positions of leadership and influence at every level of Early Childhood

Education/
Development
School
Leadership
Teaching
School Finance
& Resources
the system, our Alumni are impacting children and effecting Community
Empowerment
Teacher
Training
change across India. Student Health

& Nutrition
Private Sector
Engagement
Tertiary Education
Innovate and scale

Our innovation cell pilots alternative means to realize our vision
more effectively, and scale with greater speed.
WHAT WE DO
1. We find promising leaders LADY SHRI RAM COLLEGE JAI HIND COLLEGE CHRIST UNIVERSITY HINDU COLLEGE ST. XAVIER'S COLLEGE
ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE HANSRAJ COLLEGE SASTRA DEEMED UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
LORETO COLLEGE SRM INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MIT-COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

We recruit, select, and develop India’s most FERGUSSON COLLEGE NATIONAL DEFENCE ACADEMY EMORY UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF KENT
promising leaders from top colleges and UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA THE NORTHCAP UNIVERSITY NEW YORK UNIVERSITY TISS
corporates to provide our country’s children with COGNIZANT INFOSYS ACCENTURE IBM WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES LARSEN & TOUBRO LTD DELL
greater opportunity. KPMG AXIS BANK ADITYA BIRLA GROUP IDEA CELLULAR INDIA LIMITED DELOITTE ERNST & YOUNG
ZS ASSOCIATES BOSCH LTD CITIGROUP TATA GROUP JP MORGAN CHASE AMAZON CAPGEMINI
6-8% of applicants are accepted into the Fellowship

HCL
BARCLAYS
HDFC BANK VODAFONE INDIA WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
GENPACT
AMERICAN EXPRESS
HINDALCO SBI
HT AMDOCS O Y O SAPIENT
15,000 people from 2000 colleges and 2400 private sector

organizations applied to the Fellowship in 2017
AON HEWITT
GATI GE ICICI
DIRECTI
PWC
75,000
*this list is not
exhaustive
people have applied to the Fellowship since 2009
On college campuses, we are the largest and most

aspirational recruiter of talent for the social sector.
WHAT WE DO
2. Our Fellows impact students and communities

The Fellowship is a challenging, two-year commitment. Fellows work as full-time teachers in government and low-income
private schools. Fellows are trained at a residential institute and then provided with on-going training and support through the
two years.
Our Fellows not only provide their students with a holistic and path-changing education, but they also impact their schools and
communities through targeted initiatives. Today, 1100 Teach For India Fellows are working to ensure more than 38,000
underprivileged children attain an excellent education.
We believe that an excellent
education - one that unleashes
our children’s potential and
catalyzes their greatest
contribution to the world - must
integrate three things:
ACADEMIC
ACHIEVEMENT
VALUES EXPOSURE
AND AND
MINDSETS ACCESS
Students on a different life path

WHAT WE DO
3. We cultivate lifelong leadership

We believe that teaching is leadership. At the end of the Our Alumni create impact through positions of
day, great teachers do what great leaders do. leadership and influence at all levels of the education
ecosystem. We incubate Alumni entrepreneurs,
Our path of cultivating Fellow leadership starts at Institute, support the growth of Alumni-led projects and
continues through two years of ongoing training and support learning communities and create platforms to foster
and leaves our Fellows feeling inspired and prepared to join connection and collaboration.
the Alumni movement. The Fellowship builds three important
commitments: the commitment to personal transformation,
Incubates early-stage
to collective action, and to educational equity. The adverse education entrepreneurs in a
conditions and challenges our Fellows face in serving their 9-month program that includes
children is the biggest driver of leadership. financial support, mentorship
and in-person bootcamps.
Creates opportunities and

provides financial assistance,
9%
mentorship, and skill-building for
of our Fellows enter on day 1 saying that they Alumni to work in positions from
believe they will stay in education after 2 years. school leadership to roles within
state governments.
74% have stayed in education A digital platform that connects

our growing community of
after the 2 years. Alumni, Fellows and Staff in a
common virtual space.
WHAT WE DO
4. We help infuse our Alumni across puzzle pieces
Education
Management
Curriculum &
Information
Assesment
Systems
Technology
in Education
Early Childhood School Finance

School Teaching & Resources
Education/ Leadership
Development
Community Teacher

Tertiary Education
WHAT WE DO
We innovate and scale

Our Innovation Cell helps strengthen our core work while simultaneously scaling our impact towards our vision.
TFIx supports education The Kids Education Revolution Firki enables teachers across the
entrepreneurs to adapt Teach (KER) supports a student-led country to access an
For India’s Fellowship and re-imagination of education. open-source, online teacher
launch leadership Fellowships training portal to support their
across India. professional development.
WHAT WE DO
We are part of
a global movement
Teach For India is part of the Teach For All Network, a growing group of 48 countries united by the
vision of ensuring all children unleash their greatest potential.
Teach For India is registered as the Friends of Teach For India (FTFI), a 501(c) non-profit in the U.S. Led by Rahul Brahmbhatt,
FTFI was established to deepen and accelerate the work of Teach For India by:
Spreading awareness about Teach For India to mobilize Fellows, Staff and volunteers to join the program.
Raising financial and other resources for Teach For India.
Sharing educational and organizational best practices to accelerate Teach For India’s impact.
Mobilizing Teach For India Alumni in the U.S. to remain deeply connected to the mission.
Friends of Teach For India board members

Avi Nash, Goldman Sachs*, Motivation for Excellence
Eric Scroggins, Teach For America*, The Opportunity Trust
Girish Bhakoo, Ruane, Cuniff, & Goldfarb
Mallika Singh, Omidyar Network*
* formerly worked at
“ I can’t get over what Teach For India has been able to accomplish in 10 years. The students, teachers, Alumni and Staff
members of Teach For India are some of the most inspiring leaders I’ve met anywhere in the world. They’re showing all of
us what is possible. ”
- Wendy Kopp, Founder and CEO, Teach For All
OUR IMPACT
OUR IMPACT
We have scaled significantly

7
7 Cities
Cities 1,100
1,100 Fellows
Fellows 38,000
38,000 Students
5 Students 340
Cities
320 Schools
720 Schools 260
Fellows
190 Staff
3 23,000 Staff 2,500
Cities Students
1,100 Alumni
370 210 Alumni
Fellows Schools
12,000 140
2 Students Staff
Cities 120 420
87 Schools Alumni
Fellows 70
2,700 Staff
Students 78
34 Alumni
Schools
29
Staff
2009-10 2011-12 2013-14 2015-16 2017-18
Teach For India remains the largest Fellowship and pipeline of talent into the
education sector, with over 500 Alumni joining the movement for equity each year.
OUR IMPACT
Our leaders span sectors

5%
Education
Management
Curriculum &
Information
Assesment
13%
Systems
7%
Technology
in Education
Others
2%
3%
Early Childhood Education Policy
School Teaching and Governance
11%
Education/ Leadership
6% Development
Community Teacher
28%

12%
Tertiary Education
2%
11%
92%
of Fellows feel part of a larger movement working to
ensure all children attain an excellent education.
Source: Fellow Engagement Survey, 2018
OUR IMPACT
Leaders at
all levels: Classroom
Leading classrooms
For dozens of our Alumni, the decision to join Teach

For India was the first step towards finding their
purpose in teaching. Despite the barriers of working as Mohini Pandey Nathaniel Seelan
a teacher in a low-income school, a growing number of 2015 Amdavad Fellow 2015 Chennai Fellow
Co-founder, iTeach Schools. Currently serves as
Alumni continue to have a transformative impact on Currently teaching an Assistant School Leader,
students in classrooms. Math/Accounting at Vidya Niketan Higher
Avasara Academy, Pune Secondary School, Chennai
Mohini gave students an Nate noticed that schools

opportunity to continue cater exclusively to students
their education through who are academically-inclined,
grade 9 and 10 by but do not assess other
In the last three years of the CENTA Teaching co-founding iTeach abilities. His project ImpART--a
Professionals Olympiad, Teach For India Fellows and schools, where she was transparent rubric that
also the lead teacher, measures academic, artistic
Alumni have consistently ranked amongst the top teaching grades 8, 9, and and athletic talents--has
10 teachers who participate in the competition 10. There are five iTeach directly impacted 290 children
across India. schools today, and 99% of and changed mindsets for 200
the first batch of grade 10 community members. Nate’s
standard students are now early childhood project
63 Teach For India Fellows and Alumni have secured in college. Mohini has enabled more than 90% of
taught 800 students and kindergarten students to
ranks in the top 100 of the CENTA Teaching currently teaches girls at identify with spoken English
Professionals Olympiad from 2015 to 2018. the Avasara Leadership and write words, which
Academy. prepares them to excel in a
range of activities in the
holistic school environment.
OUR IMPACT
Leaders at
all levels: Schools
Leading schools
Spending two years as teachers in low-income schools exposes

Fellows to the challenges that affect learning outcomes coupled
Santosh More Sai Pramod
with the opportunities to lead change.
2011 Bengaluru Fellow 2015 Hyderabad Fellow
Co-founder, City Head,
Today, more than 40 Alumni are currently driving change through Mantra4Change, India School Leadership
Bengaluru Institute (ISLI), Hyderabad
leadership roles in schools. Even at an early stage, many of these
schools have transformed outcomes for the students they serve.
Santosh founded Sai changes mindsets of
Mantra4Change (M4C) to school leaders. He’s helped
improve the quality of build administrative
teaching and increase capacity by training 200
community stakeholder school leaders in
participation. Mantra is government and private
currently working with 50 schools, and impacted
school leaders and 350 approximately 80,000
After serving as a school leader from 2013-17, teachers, impacting more children from low-income
than 12,000 students. communities. Last year,
Saurabh is now the CEO of The Akanksha ISLI impacted 421 school
Foundation. This year, 98% of Akanksha students leaders and 305,216
students in four cities.
passed their school-leaving exam, with over 70% of
them scoring a first class.
OUR IMPACT
Leaders at
all levels: Communities
Leading change with communities
During the two years, Fellows address problems in their schools and
communities through multiple projects. These experiences
Sahil Babbar Ashish Shrivastava
strengthen their commitment as Alumni to continue working in 2017 Delhi Fellow 2013 Delhi Fellow
communities and tackle issues ranging from financially empowering Co-founder, Co-founder,
women to equipping parents with greater skills and knowledge to Samarthya, Delhi Shiksharth, Sukma
impacting early childhood education. Sahil wants parents to be Ashish wanted to bridge the gap
successful advocates for their between students in rural and tribal
children. Samarthya educates areas, and students in cities.
parents about their children’s Shiksharth has used action-based
rights to a good education and research to design and implement
provides knowledge about what a teacher training that has led to a
quality education entails. Sahil three-year grade level improvement
ensures parents focus on forming in 1.5 academic year cycle and
school management committees one-year grade level improvement
“I didn't know what I could do as a school (SMCs) to make incremental in 0.5 academic year cycle for 5,000
improvements and maintain students. 70% of children
management committee member before. But now, standards. Last year, Samarthya successfully self completed and
I feel empowered. I help the school with governance worked with 14 SMCs in Delhi to explained concepts based on
and administration. I also hold the school impact 41,430 kids and is building science workshops. By partnering
an unprecedented partnership with the government, Ashish has
accountable when needed.” with the Haryana government to impacted 45,000 children, 1,800
work across the state. teachers and 1,100 schools.
- Satish Ji, Parent
OUR IMPACT
Leading social
impact organizations
Teach For India Alumni are setting up and leading

non-profit organizations and social enterprises
that fuel change for India's children in classrooms,
schools, and beyond.
Over 35 mission-driven organizations have been

founded by Alumni entrepreneurs who have raised
funding worth ₹100+ million and have been selected
for support by some of the leading start-up
incubators in India, including Villgro, Central Square
Foundation, N/core, NSRCEL at IIM Bangalore and
CIIE at IIM Ahmedabad.
Inqui Lab Foundation

OUR IMPACT
Leading change
with governments
Several Teach For India Alumni are working closely with

local, state and national government bodies to
strengthen the policy and governance environment for
Jagnoor Grewal Seema Kamble Praveen Khanghta
schools and school systems.
2011 Delhi Fellow 2010 Mumbai Fellow 2013 Delhi Fellow
Block Development and Consultant, Maharashtra Programme Manager,
Panchayat Officer International Education Central Square Foundation
(Civil Servant) - Rural Board (MIEB), Mumbai (CSF), Delhi
Development, Punjab
As a civil servant Jagnoor As a consultant with the Praveen works with the
Leadership For Equity Foundation, co-founded by helps shape policy design Maharashtra International Secretary of School
Madhukar Banuri (2011 Fellow, Pune) and Siddesh for rural development Education Board (MIEB) Education, MHRD, to design,
Sharma (2013 Fellow, Pune), is one of the only 10 schemes. Jagnoor oversees Seema is overseeing plan and manage strategic
school progress in 100 training and school support reform initiatives. He has
non-profit organizations in Maharashtra to secure a villages by driving changes to schools affiliated with it. led partnerships with 100+
memorandum of understanding with the with the Principal Secretary She is helping shape the leading NGOs on
and Finance Commissioner curriculum and design government projects in
Maharashtra State Government. for Rural Development in priorities of the board and is Uttar Pradesh and Jammu
Punjab, and district level working with the State and Kashmir, covering
politicians in charge of Education leadership to issues including, girl child
broad development goals. build a network of 100 MIEB education and out-of-school
schools by 2020. Her work children.
has directly impacted 5000
students and 150 teachers
across 13 rural/tribal
schools.
OUR IMPACT
Leading change
with the private sector
Private sector organizations play a critical role in

mobilizing the resources and talent needed for education
systems to thrive. After completing the Fellowship,
Zafar Bharti Kishan Ladha
several Teach For India Alumni join private sector
2014 Mumbai Fellow 2011Amdavad Fellow
organizations to continue effecting change in education. Implementation Consultant, Consultant, Tata
McKinsey and Company Consultancy Services,
Corporate Social
Responsibility, Amdavad
20%
Zafar co-founded McKinsey Kishan has increased literacy
of our Alumni work in the private Social Initiatives’ first rates by providing laptops and
sector. program, Generation, to training through proprietary
bridge the employment gap software to 130,000 women
through quality vocational between ages 14 and 90 in five
education. Generation has states. He’s coached 650+
impacted 12,000 students in facilitators to help drive this
three years. Zafar’s change. In addition, 6,500
education sector projects contract staff at Tata
range from developing a Consultancy Services (TCS)
growth strategy for have learned spoken English
non-profit organizations to and gained soft skills through
designing public universities Kishan’s training program,
that will enrol 5,000+ which helped several contract
students in 10 years. staff members gain full-time
employment as TCS associates.
Kishan is an active supporter of
the Manav Sadhna ecosystem.
OUR IMPACT
Pursuing higher
education
The two-year Fellowship exposes Fellows to the

grassroots realities of India’s education system and,
when combined with the conceptual frameworks and
tools gained through further education, equips Alumni
with the foundations to think about change at scale.
Over 150 Alumni have completed advanced degrees

in education, public policy, business and social
entrepreneurship at the most selective and
prestigious global institutions.
OUR IMPACT
Our Alumni fuel

systems change
If our work over this decade has taught us one thing, it is that we cannot meet all the needs of children alone. Our strategy has
evolved to one of collective leadership, where we collaborate with diverse stakeholders across our regions to construct a
shared vision for children. As a result, the work of Fellows and Alumni at every level of the education ecosystem is driving
lasting progress in cities across the country.
WHERE WE ARE GOING
WHERE WE ARE GOING
We will double to reach

one million children by 2022
Education
Management
Curriculum &
Information
Assesment
Systems
Technology
in Education
By 2022, one million children will receive an Early Childhood School Teaching
School Finance
& Resources
excellent education through the direct* work of Education/
Development
Leadership
our Fellows and Alumni. We will simultaneously

work to build an ecosystem, through our Alumni,
Teacher
that is indirectly impacting millions beyond that. Community

Tertiary Education
By direct, we mean Fellows and Alumni working in teaching, teacher training, school leadership and community engagement
*
WHERE WE ARE GOING
We will redefine an excellent

education and how to get there
Leadership At The Core
We will double the number of Fellows in the Fellowship, creating a pipeline of 6000 leaders for the
education sector.
Collective Impact
Each of our regions will bring together diverse stakeholders to evolve and work towards a shared
vision that ensures educational opportunity for all.
Innovation
We will attain significant scale. Our Firki portal will enable 150,000 educators across India to access
high quality teacher professional development. Our TFIx model will create over 50 Fellowships
across India, serving many of our most vulnerable children. Our Kids Education Revolution will bring
together thousands of educators and students from a diverse collective of organizations to
reimagine education together.
We transform the lives of

children with less opportunity
2018 38,000 kids impacted during the Fellowship

1,50,000 kids impacted directly by our Alumni
2022 76,000 kids impacted during the Fellowship

9,24,000 kids impacted directly by our Alumni
Your support puts one million children on a different life path.

We are a low-cost,
high leverage model
Our Fellow cost is divided across approximately 35 children, and our cost per student during the Fellowship starts at $426
(₹28,910). However, once a Fellow becomes an Alumnus who continues to impact children, this cost quickly decreases.
$500 100000 CHILDREN IMPACTED

COST PER CHILD
$400
75000
$300
50000
$200
25000
$100
$0 0
0-2 Years 2+ yrs for the Alumni phase 0-2 Years 2+ yrs for the Alumni phase
Take Priyodarshini Das, who teaches 160 children as a teacher at Aga Khan Academies. For an Alumnus like her, who works directly with children one point away, the cost
per student falls to $91 (₹6097)
Take Patricia Swaris, who impacts 5,000 children as a education coach at XSEED. For an Alumnus like her, who works directly with children two points away, the cost per
student falls to $3 (₹201)
Take Ikpreet Singh, who impacts millions of children across the country as a consultant at EkStep. For an Alumnus like him, who works indirectly with children, the cost per
student falls to about $0.01 (₹0.67)
Your support funds lifelong leaders for education, impacting countless children.
We are the education sector’s

largest and strongest talent pipeline
We draw the largest pool of social sector applications from colleges and companies,
and select 7-8% of candidates each year. We’re getting great people.
We train and support our Fellows intensively during the two-year Fellowship period.
We’re developing great people.
We induct our Fellows into the Alumni movement. We’re the largest pipeline of
great people in the education sector.
We continue to support our Alumni. We’re growing the collective impact of our
community.
We compliment all the incredible work in the development sector by providing the
leadership needed across several organizations.
These are leaders who, without Teach For India, not only wouldn't be working in education today, but they also wouldn't have a
community of support to accelerate their journey.
Your support fuels leadership.

We reimagine education
We’re committed to shifting education to being truly holistic and differentiated such that every single child
learns and grows to his or her fullest potential. We believe that education isn’t only about exams, grades and
self-interest, but also about an individual’s larger contribution to the world.
We’re constantly thinking about how we can expand the pipeline of leadership so that more children can receive this
reimagined education.
Your support changes the status quo, reimagining education.

Our people are leaders

At the heart of our work is a team that operates with relentless belief and passion towards our vision.
Board of trustees, India

Arnavaz Aga (Chairperson), Thermax Ltd
Ashish Dhawan, Chrysalis Capital*, Ashoka University, Central Square Foundation
Meher Pudumjee, Thermax Ltd
Nandita Dugar, Boston Consulting Group*
Neel Shahani, JP Morgan*
Nisaba Godrej, Godrej Consumer Products
Shaheen Mistri, Akanksha Foundation*, Teach For India
Zia Mody, AZB Partners
* formerly with
Advisory Board
Rahul Gupta, School leader and Founder, Pune Children's Zone
Madhukar Reddy, CEO, Leadership For Equity
Craig Johnson, Head, American School of Bombay
Mihir Doshi, MD and Country CEO, Credit Suisse, India
Wendy Kopp, CEO, Teach For All
Deepak Satwalekar, Independent Director, HDFC
Tarun Cherukuri, CEO, Indus Action
Special Invitee: Vandana Goyal, ex-CEO, Akanksha
We’ve consistently been amongst the top ten

places to work in the Great Places to Work Survey
Our Leadership Team brings diverse, cross-sector experience combined with deep passion and commitment.
Aakanksha Gulati, City Director, Delhi
Master of Business, Kellogg School of Management. The Boston Consulting Group
Abhimanyu Sarkar, City Director, Pune
Bachelor of Commerce, Symbiosis. KPMG International Taxations. Teach For India Fellow 2011 Vertical heads bring experience from
Archana Ramachandran, City Director, Chennai Education, Strategy Consulting,
Harvard Graduate School of Education. Office of Human Capital, Boston Public Schools Finance and Consumer Products
Arhan Bezbora, Director, Alumni Impact sectors and have spent an average of 8
International Education Policy, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Teach For India Fellow 2010 years or more in the Education sector.
Ashwath Bharath, Director, Firki
MS in Biotechnology, International Institute of Information Technology. Teach For India Fellow 2012
Devangana Mishra, Director, Recruitment
Dual MA, Autism and Intellectual Disabilities, Autism/Intellectual Disabilities, Columbia University. The Harbour School, Hong Kong
Dimple Gujral, Chief Financial Officer
Chartered Accountant, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, A.V.P. Finance, Cleartrip
Elisha Patel, Senior Program Manager, Ahmedabad
Bachelor of Arts in Literature, St. Stephen's College. Teach For India Fellow 2011
Hitesh Rawtani, Director, Technology
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology, Thadomal Shahani Engineering College. Founder, IGKNIGHT
Kapil Dawda, City Director, Bengaluru
PGDM (Marketing), Management Development Institute. Pepsico International. Teach For India Fellow 2013
Rajshree Doshi, Director, TFIx
Bachelor’s in Commerce, Hasaram Rijumal College of Commerce. Akanksha Foundation
Sandeep Rai, Chief of City Operations
Economic and Political Development, Columbia University. Teach For America, Corps Member
Sara Khan, Director, Development
Post Graduate Diploma in Management, T. A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal. Vice President, Channel Marketing, HSBC India
Shaheen Mistri, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Master’s in Education, Manchester University. Founder and CEO, Akanksha Foundation
Shyaam Subramanian, Chief Program Officer
Post Graduate in Management, Indian School of Business. Price Water House Coopers
Swetha Balakrishnan, Chief of Staff
Master’s in International Logistics Management & Engineering, Jacobs University Bremen. Teach For India Fellow 2012
We stand on the shoulders of many
Tanya Arora, Director, Selection and Human Resources
incredible staff members who walked
Bachelor’s in Psychology, Franklin & Marshall College.
on this path before us and have love
Tulika Verma, City Director, Hyderabad
and gratitude for them.
Master’s in Business Administration, IIM Ahmedabad. Chief Executive, Jharkhand Innovation Lab
Venil Ali, City Director, Mumbai
Master’s in Biochemistry, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College. Teach For India Fellow 2009
Engagement levels remain high with our rapidly growing team!
GROWTH ENGAGEMENT
Staff strength grew from 29 to 280 in the past 9 years. Highest qualification Leadership Development Journey
Conversations is how we uniquely describe
our performance management: “Leadership
Post- Development” being at the heart of everything
Total (including consultants) Graduate that we do and “Journey” because we believe
32% it is a continuous path to unleashing your
287
227 257 Graduate greatest potential!
176 196
142 68%
Engagement For Results (a survey conducted

FY 13-14 FY 14-15 FY 15-16 FY 16-17 FY 17-18 Q’1 18-19 annually by Boston Consulting Group
Gender diversity Australia) consistently shows us to be strong
on the following:
Average Staff tenure (years) Passion/motivation of people
Vision alignment
Male Employees’ love for the culture
Senior Manager Director Leadership 32% /caliber of people
Female Manager capabilities & interactions
3.6 3.8 8.2 68%
Average work experience across levels (years) Teach For India features in
Source of Staff hiring
‘Great Places to Work’
20
2015 - Top 5
2016 - Top 10
External
2017 - Certified as a
8 8 Hire
Great Place to Work
5 Fellow 38%
2 3 Alumni
62%
Assistant Associate Manager Senior Director Leadership

Manager *Data as on Q1’2018
Our donors enable our work

Over this decade, Teach For India has been supported by countless people and organizations.
Some of our largest donors have included:
Acacia Partners, LP J P Morgan Chase Foundation Pirojsha Godrej Foundation

Amdocs Development Centre Private Limited Kewalram Chanrai Holdings Limited Reliance Foundation
Arnavaz Aga L&T Fincorp Limited Sir Ratan Tata Trust
Bajaj Auto Limited Lanxess India Private Limited Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Bank of America Charitable Foundation Meher Pudumjee Symantec Software India Private Limited
Bank Of America Merill Lynch Michael and Susan Dell Foundation Teach For All
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited National Stock Exchange IKEA
Cheil India Private Limited Nomura Services India Private Limited The Honkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
Corporation of Chennai Omidyar Network Thermax Social Initiative Foundation
Credit Suisse AG Oracle United Way of Hyderabad
Credit Suisse Securities India Private Limited
Deutsche Bank AG
Deutsche Investments India Private Limited
Deutsche Post DHL
DHL Logistics Private Limited
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
Egon Zehnder International Private Limited
FIL Foundation
Fujitsu Consulting India Private Limited
GenNext Hardware & Parks
Genpact India
Genpact Services LLC
Girish Bhakoo
Give Foundation
Godrej Consumer Products Limited
Godrej Properties Limited
Greg Alexander
Great Eastern CSR Foundation
Great Lakes Institute of Management
H T Parekh Foundation
HDFC Bank Limited
Infosys Limited
We need funding
to expand our impact
By 2022, Teach For India’s Annual budget will be approximately 100 crores.
THE INNOVATION CELL

KIDS EDUCATION REVOLUTION
FIRKI
TFIx
THE ALUMNI MOVEMENT
THE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

The colors
of our future are bright
Stop and look at a child playing with a Firki.
See how it represents the unique colors in each child, and in each of us.
See how, when the wind comes, it spins,
reminding us that an unstoppable movement has begun.
The colors of the past decade give us faith that the decade ahead will impact kids in ways beyond what we
can imagine. And a generation of kids unleashed to live their greatest potential will enable us to deliver that
which our constitution promised each of us: justice, liberty, equality and fraternity.
JOIN THE MOVEMENT
Here now, it comes,
and round and round
my Firki runs and runs
and shows me with great certainty
a movement has begun.
To learn more about Teach For India, visit www.teachforindia.org
Apply to the Fellowship at

www.teachforindia.org/become-fellow
Apply to join the team at www.teachforindia.org/careers
Apply to volunteer in a classroom at

www.teachforindia.org/volunteer
Donate at www.teachforindia.org/donatenow
To learn more about Firki, visit www.firki.co

To learn more about KER, visit www.kidseducationrevolution.org
To learn more about TFIx, visit www.teachforindia.org/tfix
Teach For India has offices in Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Ahmedabad,

Chennai, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru.
Friends of Teach For India is headquartered in New York City.

To learn more about Friends of Teach For India, email rahul@friendsofteachforinida.org
Appendix
Table of contents
STUDENT AND TEACHER IMPACT WORK OF OUR NATIONAL VERTICALS
- TRANSFORMATIONAL IMPACT JOURNEY - TEACH FOR INDIA DEPARTMENTS
- GRADUATION RATES - FELLOWSHIP RECRUITMENT
- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDY OF IMPACT - FELLOWSHIP SELECTION
- HOLISTIC IMPACT - TRAINING AND IMPACT
- THE MAYA MUSICAL - ALUMNI IMPACT
- THE INSPIRED CONFERENCES - HUMAN RESOURCES
- TEACH FOR INDIA PUBLICATIONS - DEVELOPMENT
- STRATEGY AND LEARNING
- TECHNOLOGY
CITY IMPACT - FINANCE
- AMDAVAD - ADMINISTRATION
- MUMBAI - COMMUNICATIONS
- PUNE
- DELHI
- HYDERABAD MEDIA
- BENGALURU
- CHENNAI
INNOVATION CELL
- TFIX
- THE KIDS EDUCATION REVOLUTION
- FIRKI
STUDENT AND TEACHER IMPACT
Transformational Impact Journey

The Transformational Impact Journey (TIJ) cements our great belief that teaching is leadership.
It was developed as a way to evolve a shared vision of excellent teaching by studying and learning from our
most transformational teachers.
Develop a culture of
Establish learning
aspiring
Create a network loops that will
Ensure our teams transformational
of resources, propagate best
consistently teachers that
videos, and practices, not only
engage with an compels and inspires
artifacts to share within Teach For
evolving and our community to
with Fellows and India, but also across
common vision of believe that
external the wider
excellence. transformative and
stakeholders. educational
enduring change is
community.
possible.
From 2012, we’ve spent months nominating teachers, collecting and studying videos and artifacts from their classrooms, and have engaged in rigorous discussions about their
practices. Here is a list of finalists we have celebrated and learned from over the years.
Archana Iyer, Ashwath Bharath, Jai Mishra, Ishita Dutta, Robin Kumar,
Sapna Shah, Nalika Breganza, Shivani Aggarwal, Subodh Jain, Neida Khurshid,
Nirali Vasisht Avantika Thakur Pooja Chopra Kamna Kathuria Viraj Surve
Culture of high Holistic, rigorous Collective Action Every child can be at Irrespective of
expectations and and real life learning and Parent grade level with the grade, children can
rigor can push in these classrooms Empowerment help of Rigor, be on path-
children to close the laid foundations for leads to enduring Relevance, changing learning
achievement gap. the Student Vision learning and impact Reflection and when Fellows
Scale. for students. Relationships. actively research,
learn and
collaborate.
Transformational Impact Journey

Here is a glimpse of the transformational changes we are seeing in these classrooms:
Students set ambitious goals and regularly check their progress.

Students bridge the academic gap and are fast approaching grade-level.
Students discuss their opinion and perspectives beyond classroom learning.
Students are self and socially aware and are working towards change in their class, school and community.
Fellows build knowledge and skills through rigorous and relevant content.
Fellows build authentic, open, caring relationships with students.
Fellows continuously learn and reflect on outcomes to refine their vision.
Fellows create opportunities for students to reflect on their growth and classroom experiences.
Parents create a supportive environment for their children.
A supportive school with structured learning opportunities for students.
A relay of strong and effective teachers.
A learning and support ecosystem of people, resources and experiences for Fellows.
“I have developed very much. One day when didi came to my “In meetings, Lalitha explains that it’s important for parents to
house she told my mother that I don’t answer much in class. I pay attention to their actions. Our house is small with only one
felt very bad and at that time I made a goal to answer at least room, so I’ve brought a lot of change in myself. I make sure
5 times in a day. In behaviour, I should be myself because I food is ready and put the lights and television off early. That’s
normally do what my friends do. I will read 10 books in 3 the only way children will go to sleep on time. This isn’t the age
months.” to shout at or hit children, even if they are mischievous. There
- Shama, grade 5 student is a lot of power in explaining things with love.”
- Mrs. Pandey, Harshita’s mother
Our students graduate with the academic skills, values and mindsets
that they need to be succesful.
94% of our grade 10 students graduate

successfully from school
99% of our Headmasters believe that Teach For India has

made a positive difference to their school environment. 1
22.7% of them with a distinction (above 75%)
92% Fellows feel part of a larger movement working to

ensure all children attain an excellent education. 2 31.3% of them secure a first class (above 60%)
Sources - 1. HeadMaster Survey, 2018

2. Fellow Engagement Survey, 2018
A longitudinal study by Columbia University established significant academic gains.
While our internal data shows positive trends, we

WHY
embarked on an externally validated study of our KEY FINDINGS
impact vis-a-vis classrooms without a Teach For India
intervention.
After the fourth year and final conclusion of the study, we

commissioned several analyses to corroborate our findings:
We partnered with Columbia University's School of

International Affairs and Educational Initiatives for
WHAT a four-year, longitudinal study of our students'
English Gain ~ 7x times Math Gain ~ 2x times
Math and English levels. 5 8
4 4.3 6 6.8
3
The study involved: 4
2 3.8
75 trained, independent volunteers and 6 Columbia staff.
3700 students across intervention and control groups. 1 2
HOW Multiple school types across three cities tested. 0.6
Random sampling and external assessments to maintain
0 0
validity. Non Teach For India Students Teach For India Students
English gain for students in a Teach For India classroom is 7 times the gain
experienced by students in a year in a non-Teach For India classroom.
Math gain for students in a Teach For India classroom is 2 times the gain
experienced by students in a year in a non-Teach For India classroom.
Independent analyses indicate that the gains are statistically significant

and indicative a program with high impact.
The holistic education that our students attain has been sparked by student and
Fellow-led projects that build 21st century skills and values.
VOICES FROM A WALK

MALVANI TO REMEMBER
*this list is not exhaustive
Our students learn, growing as leaders who contribute to India.
ISHA THAKUR AFTAB ANSARI SINDHUPRIYA GADDAM

2014: Joined Teach For India 2010: Joined Teach For India 2012: Joined Teach For India
2016: Selected to be a Junior 2017: Started a Peer Counselling 2016: Founded Project Each One
Aspen Fellow Project to address exam-related Teach One, a mini-Fellowship
2016: Created an award-winning stress program where she teaches her
awareness project for the Global 2017: Created Eklavya, a friends to run holistic morning
Design for Change Challenge community learning centre for meetings across the school
2017: Designed Odyssey, a students in his community 2018: Will start at the Avasara
Fellowship for students to teach at 2018: Graduated from the Worli Sea Leadership Academy, Pune
the Sangam Vihar Learning Center Face Municipal School In Mumbai
2018: Selected as one of six 2018: Served as a student intern at
children world-wide to serve on our 5-week residential training
Teach For All's Student Leader program for Fellows
Advisory Council
Our Maya musical deepened our understanding of student leadership

Staged in 2013, Maya was an exploration of student leadership that culminated in a Broadway-inspired
musical reaching an audience of over 10,000 people. The musical was a demonstration of how
a holistic education can unlock incredible potential in children from all backgrounds.
The Maya musical enabled us to codify some of the practices that cultivate and accelerate student
leadership. Through the Maya Movement, an initiative that helps students research, design and
execute projects to improve their communities, we have expanded our efforts to build student
leadership across our seven cities. The values of courage, compassion and wisdom embedded in the
Maya musical continue to shape and drive our student’s learning and community initiatives.
See what some of our Maya students are doing today!
Siddhesh, Moiz, Chaitrali and Adesh received a

first class/distinction in their school leaving exam.
Chaitrali and Rutuja will be studying at United World Colleges

(UWC) in Pune and Thailand, respectively.
Mrunali studies at the Avasara Leadership Academy and has

trained TFI Fellows at Institute.
Shlok graduated from UWC Pune and will be joining Wartburg

University in the U.S.
Priyanka graduated from UWC Italy, completed her first year
at Franklin & Marshall college and continues to pursue theatre.
InspireED brings together the most innovative leaders from

India to confront the challenge of education inequity.
The InspirED conferences in Pune, Mumbai and Delhi brought together

thousands of educators to dive into issues of educational inequity in India and
explore the role they could play in ensuring that every child attains an
excellent education. From Arvind Kejriwal (then Chief Minister of Delhi) to
Mike Johnston (then Senator, Colorado), to Craig Johnson (Superintendent,
The American School of Mumbai), Kailash Satyarthi (Nobel Peace Prize winner
and child rights activist), Madhav Chavan (Founder, Pratham) to several policy
makers, educators, business leaders, students, teachers and media came
together to debate solutions to India’s great challenge of educational inequity.
We’ve written children’s books and our 5 year story, Redrawing India.
CITY IMPACT
CITY IMPACT
Teach For India Amdavad will empower

communities and nurture entrepreneurs
with and for 100,000 children
A snapshot of the landscape
Total number of school going students: 10,00,000
Total number of school going students in Amdavad Municipal Corporation
(AMC) schools: 3,50,000
Total number of schools: 2,900
Total number of Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC) schools: 460 - 500
Most schools either run by AMC or trusts
Role of Teach For India

Over 2,000 students in 22 schools
13 Staff members
68 Fellows and over 30 Alumni
60% of Alumni continue to work in education
Fueling leadership at every level:

Alumni teaching in classrooms: 10
Alumni leading schools: 7
Alumni impacting communities: 4
CITY IMPACT
Amdavad
Collective impact
Just in its fifth year of operations, the majority of students in our classrooms have
closed the reading gap and are now reading at grade level.
Samait Shala, founded by Kushal Dattani, Sai Manoj, Dipon
In 2018, we had 7 Alumni join low-income private and Amdavad Municipal Deb and Priyanka Patel in 2016, runs a 3 year Systemic
Corporation (AMC) schools in prioritized clusters in the capacity of Assistant School
Leaders (ASLs). Collectively, this group of ASLs impacts close to 2,100 students. Intervention Program (SIP) that caters to the differential
Today, we have 12 Alumni directly influencing holistic education, student voice and needs of children with learning difficulties and disabilities in
school development in a diverse set of schools. We have highly invested school
principals who are working closely with Teach For India Fellows and Alumni to
mainstream classrooms. The program has impacted 850
transform their schools. children in 2 communities so far.
Parvarish began as a project to engage the community through theatre and
story-telling. It evolved into a series of socially-themed plays performed by Fellows
in the community, and today is a space for parents and Fellows to perform street
plays for other community members.
Partnerships with local organisations have enabled us to collaborate closely with the
Harijan Trust, Manav Sadhana and the Amdavad Municipal Corporation to pilot a
Gujarthi language Fellowship with 6 Fellows this year. We also have an opportunity
to partner with UNICEF to work across 6 districts.
CITY IMPACT
Alumni in Mumbai will provide an excellent

education to 40,000 students by building 60
high performing schools
Total number of school going students in the Municipal Corporation of Greater
Mumbai system: 14,34,000
Number of schools: 3,893
Total number of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai Schools: 1,400

27 Staff members

CITY IMPACT
Mumbai
Collective impact of Teach For India community
The past decade of our work in Mumbai has reaffirmed the need for school and Members of the Mumbai Staff are currently collaborating with the Municipal
community level change, and our Alumni have taken on leadership roles within Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) on the ‘Next Generation Schools’ project.
schools and communities. This project aims to transform 23 Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai schools
across the city towards achieving stronger student outcomes. The program includes
In 2017, we saw 10 of our Alumni join low-income private and Municipal instilling 21st century skills in students, capacity building for school leaders and
Corporation of Greater Mumbai schools in the capacity of Assistant School Leaders teachers, as well as transformation of school infrastructure.
(ASLs). Collectively, this group of ASLs impacts close to 8,000 students, which is
more than all Mumbai Fellows combined. Today, we have 14 Alumni working as
ASLs, where they directly influence school development, teacher training and
parent engagement towards holistic student outcomes.
Grade 10 pass percentage
The Malwani community has immense potential to be a proof point of an

empowered community. Currently, there are 31 Teach For India Fellows, 7
Assistant School Leaders, 3 Alumni teachers and 2 Alumni-led community
68.91% Municipal Corporation of
(in 2017) Greater Mumbai
empowerment organizations, collectively working towards placing Malwani’s
94%
children on a transformational life path. This effort is further bolstered by the
continued interventions of 6 education-based organizations staffed by Teach For
India Alumni. (in 2018) Teach For India
Teach For Malwani is a Fellowship co-created by Mumbai Alumni that aims to build
leadership in youth from the community. The Fellowship currently trains them to
be sports coaches and teachers. Teach For Malwani envisions growing its ability to
catalyze school and community transformation.
CITY IMPACT
Pune Alumni will impact 10% of Pune's

children by providing cradle to career access across
100 schools in 10 inspire zones
Total number of students (up to Age 13): 12,31,298
No government-run English medium secondary schools in Pune (post grade 7)
Only 16% of enrolled students complete grade 12
63% grade 4 students can’t read Marathi and 48% grade 2 students can’t identify
English letters

Over 32 Staff members

Alumni working with the government:19
CITY IMPACT
Pune
The Pune Alumni Chapter, established in 2013, brought together Fellows, Alumni Madhukar Banuri, 2009 Fellow, Co-founder of Leadership for Equity, brings together
and partners through education conferences, panel discussions, hackathons and government officials, corporations and non-profits around a common vision for
professional learning communities. This sowed the seeds for Alumni to start educational equity. They have worked with the government to implement a teacher
working collaboratively across all levels of the system. training initiative impacting more than 2,500 government teachers. Their School
Improvement Project has increased student engagement and attendance.
Government run schools in Pune only go up to 7th grade, leaving students from
low-income communities with just two options, shifting to expensive private schools
or dropping out. The Acharya Vinoba Bhave Secondary School has been bridging
this gap in secondary education for students studying in Pune Municipal
Corporation schools. The school was started by 2009 Fellow Saurabh Taneja with
support from the Akanksha Foundation and Teach For India as a public-private
partnership with the local corporation and has achieved a 98% graduation rate for Grade 10 pass percentage
97%
students in the grade 10.
In 2016, 2013 Fellow Soumya Jain founded iTeach Schools - a network of (in 2018) Teach For India
high-quality schools providing a free, secondary education to students from
low-income communities. Operating under a public-private partnership with the
Pune municipal corporation, the 8 iTeach schools are supplying a high-quality
education to high need communities. By 2022, Akanksha and iTeach will be bridging
the secondary gap for all students in English medium schools in the city.
Rahul Gupta, a school leader and the founder of the Pune Children’s Zone and Jai
Mishra, a Community Aggregator both work to mobilize parents, teachers, students
and local officials to ensure an excellent education for all children in their
communities.
CITY IMPACT
Community Aggregators in Delhi will integrate

interventions at school, community and system
levels to deepen and accelerate impact for
4.4 million children
Total population: 11 million (megacity); 16 million (NCT)
Total number of students: 4.4 million enrolled across all grades
Percentage of grade 6 children that can't read grade 2 text: 75%

Over 36 Staff members for City Operations and 15 for National Operations

Alumni working with the government: 17
CITY IMPACT
Delhi
Delhi Alumni have added more than 20 new organisations to the city's ecosystem, School Leaders into Delhi’s Public Private Partnership schools. This year, 9 Alumni
filling multiple gaps both within and outside the schooling system. Organisations will join the Teacher Leadership Incubator and 3rd Year Fellowship to strengthen
like Simple Education Foundation, Prayogshaala, Arts for Social Change India to the teaching and teacher training talent pipeline in the city.
Samarthya, Saarthi and Meraki are providing resources and building capacity in
our communities from early childhood education to parent empowerment.
Additionally, many entrepreneurs are also filling gaps in areas like health, nutrition
and sanitation that impact a child's education journey in indirect ways. This includes
entrepreneurs like Pooja Chopra and V Shruti who co-founded the Khwaab Welfare Indus Action, founded by Tarun Cherukuri, has integrated
Trust in 2013. The trust identifies avenues for low-income women to create and sell 30,000 low-income students into private schools, making
handicrafts to increase household income to support their children’s education.
the Right to Education a reality for them and their families.
Alumni are leading systemic change in education policy and governance through
their involvement in other NGOs as well as directly with the Delhi State and Central
Governments. Alumnus Anurag Kundu, currently a Member of the Delhi Anurag Kundu currently oversees implementation of the
Commission For Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR), led the Advocacy and Right to Education Act across 6,000 schools in the state.
Community Engagement team at Indus Action where he discovered that most
private schools did not adhere to the guarantee of seats for students from
economically weaker and disadvantaged groups according to the Right to Education
Act (RTE). Anurag filed a Public Interest Litigation to begin a four-month case in the
Delhi High Court, that ended with a court order to the Municipal Corporation to Bringing it all together: Delhi Alumni are now starting to aggregate all the various
ensure transparency in the admission process. This court decision will impact resources, interventions, people and partners that impact a child's education within
12,000 children annually in Delhi. a small geography in a deliberate manner to deepen, amplify and accelerate impact.
This new role, called 'Community Aggregator', was conceived and launched in 2017
This year, the Delhi team also launched its first ever Policy Incubator that has placed and has been recognised by Teach For All as a "Network Breakthrough". In 2018-19,
6 Alumni in positions within the Delhi Government and DCPCR to work on teacher with funding from Genpact, 6 Delhi Alumni will serve as Community Aggregators to
training, school evaluation frameworks, and more. mobilise stakeholders in 6 communities towards improving learning outcomes for
all students.
Students in Delhi navigate a complicated schooling system with movement across
Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elementary schools and Department of
Education (DoE) secondary schools. Over time, this has led to double shift schools
and very low instructional hours for students. Teach for India Delhi and Alumni have
worked hard to deepen impact on students by meaningfully consolidating
government school classrooms and creating numerous after-school learning
centres to expand learning time for kids. Additionally, in 2017, Delhi's School
Leadership Incubator in partnership with The Education Alliance infused 5 new
CITY IMPACT
Hyderabad will place 60,000 students on a

transformational life-path by strengthening
schools and communities together
Total number of children (upto age 13): 7,30,997
Of children above 14 years, 24% can not read a grade 2 level text, 60% can’t
perform basic division

107 Fellows and 135 Alumni
80% continue to work in education

CITY IMPACT
Hyderabad
Teach For India Hyderabad’s Alumni are weaving a narrative of equity and holistic Mayank Lodha works with the Telangana government towards systemic
education in the region through their various enterprises and work across teacher transformation of the state’s residential social welfare schools with a vision to build
training, school leadership development, curriculum and assessments, CSR an outstanding government educational institution which provides high quality
leadership, technology and school health. holistic and value based education to the most marginalized children on par with
higher income children.
2013 Fellows Gauri Mahendra and Udita Chadha founded Umeed to improve the
financial and living conditions of the families of their students. Today, Umeed,
rooted in the principles of skill building, values and mindsets, and exposure,
empowers women across six different low-income communities to create and sell
high quality handicraft products.
Alumni Vikrant Barun Patro, Ashish Navalakha and Saahil Sood, along with
Mohammed Anwar, a school leader in Hyderabad, started Loop Education
Foundation towards school transformation using a cluster model. They work with
five schools in close proximity to each other in Hyderabad’s old city empowering
school leaders, teachers, and strengthening school systems and processes through
technology.
2014 Fellows Prashant Nori and Soumya Kavi co-founded Dramebaaz with the aim
of building life skills in children through the medium of theater. Today, Dramebaaz
has worked with 1,050 children across 70 schools.
2014 Fellows Sahithya Anumolu, Eshwar Bandi and Vivek Piddempally co-founded
Inqui-Lab with the vision to prepare every child for the 21st century by transforming
schools into places of creativity and innovation. Today, through their innovation
cycles and toolkits, they have enabled 1,350 children across 28 schools to make
3,000+ design submissions and 350+ prototypes.
CITY IMPACT
Bengaluru’s Alumni will be the backbone needed

to serve schools, clusters and districts
Total Population: 9.6 Million
Total Number of Students (Upto Age 13): 1.1 Million
Number of Govt. Schools, Bangalore Urban: 4,420

24 Staff members

CITY IMPACT
Bengaluru
Bengaluru’s Alumni Movement began before the city operations did. Leveraging In 2018, M4C has also partnered with Teach For India under the Alumni Leadership
the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the city, our Alumni have started their own Incubator Program (ALI). Under this we have placed 5 Cluster Transformation Leads
organizations, addressing needs from student mastery of content to creating proof in Goripalya. Together they are working in 13 schools spread across 2 clusters,
points of school transformation. In 2017, Sethuraman TA started Jungroo Learning - impacting about 1,500 Students. Under the ALI program, 5 Alumni have also been
an artificial intelligence (AI) based platform that helps identify student mastery and placed as Assistant School Leaders (ASLs) in 5 low income private schools in 4
uses the data to generate a personalized learning pathway for students. clusters of Bengaluru. These Alumni are cumulatively impacting 4,500 students, and
close to 140 teachers. M4C runs the Edumentum program to identify and support
Alumni Surendrasingh Sucharia, Ikpreet Singh and Aditya Raman are working towards entrepreneurs that can drive systemic education transformation. 6 entrepreneurs
creating large scale open learning platforms with EkStep. Currently Ikpreet is working graduated from the program in 2017 and another 11 will join in 2018.
on a project that has introduced Quick Response (QR) codes in textbooks for students
of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. Students, teachers and
parents are able to use these QR codes to get access to video tutorials, assessments
and content. This project is set to reach 45 million students in India.
Another Alumni led organization, Key Education Foundation (KEF), is working in the
space of Early Childhood Education. KEF runs the School Readiness Program under
which it trains teachers and parents on child development and learning. It is currently
present in 26 schools and impact 4,000 children in Bengaluru.
Alumni in Bengaluru are also working towards systemic change by working with
community leaders, school principals and Cluster Resource Persons (CRPs).
Mantra4Change (M4C), started by Alumnus Santosh More, is one such organization
working in the space. M4C launched its flagship program - the Cluster Transformation
Program through which, M4C is working in 4 clusters in South Bengaluru impacting 48
schools. The model focuses on mobilizing a collective involving local bodies such as
Gram and Zila Panchayats and local small scale Industries, corporates who fund the
change and NGOs like Agastya, Let's Do Good Foundation, etc. The team is working
towards building trust among partners within and across clusters, aligning on a longer
vision and making clear commitments towards it.
CITY IMPACT
Chennai Alumni are leading change at the

school and system level to collectively provide
an excellent education to 45,000 students
Total number of children: 5,19,527
Total number of schools in Greater Chennai Corporation: 281
Percentage of students in grades 6-7 who can read grade 2 text: 63.4%

Co-teaching along with a Government school teacher in 9 schools
90% continue to work in education

Alumni working in classrooms, schools and
communities: 70
Alumni working with system across the network
of schools: 50
CITY IMPACT
Chennai
Since 2012 when the Chennai site was launched, we’ve seen the Alumni numbers Vaishnavi Srinivasan volunteered with Bhumi before she joined the Teach For India
grow from 3 members to a well connected team of 150 today. As our Alumni entered Fellowship and chose to return to work with Bhumi as an Alumnus. towards being a
the wider landscape in the region, we’ve seen 90% continue to work in education key member of Bhumi’s work in the region. Bhumi started more than 25 Community
leading change within organizations as intrapreneurs and starting organizations as Centers across the city to work with students post school hours.
entrepreneurs.
Merlia Tanseer is the Founder and CEO of Madhi Foundation, that draws its
Nathaniel Seelan serves as the Assistant School Leader in Vidyaniketan School inspiration from the Tamil proverb "Vidhiyai Madhiyaal Vellalaam” which translates
where he completed his Fellowship. He works on a set of high-leverage projects to to, “Destiny can be conquered with knowledge (madhi)”. Her inspiration for Madhi
shift student outcomes for the school. For example, Nate’s early childhood project came from her time on staff at Teach For India, where being in classrooms made
enabled more than 90% of kindergarten students to identify spoken English and her see the impact on children’s lives and she was eager to bring the same impact
write words, which prepares them to excel in a range of activities in the holistic across all classrooms. Madhi Foundation works with the Tamil Nadu Government to
school environment. design and implement large scale system capacity building programmes like teacher
education through the Transformational Academic Program (TAP) as well as
Bala Jeyaraman created a role for himself in the school after the Fellowship and has supporting with designing text-books for grade 1 of the Revised Samacheer
stayed with the students he taught in the school and community since 2012, Curriculum. Madhi Foundation is currently impacting 4,000+ teachers in the state.
committing to see them receive an excellent education right through school. The
community center founded by him aims to be the equalizing factor that levels the
playing field for children in the community. He has also inspired Fellows from
subsequent cohorts who taught in the school to continue directly working with the
school through the community center he started.
INNOVATION CELL
INNOVATION CELL
Sandhya
Palampur
Surender
Rewari
Ajay-Kherti
Meghna
Delhi Rahul
Noida
Lucknow
TFIx develops leaders committed to educating every child, in

Vijay
every corner of the country. Through a year-long incubation Bhopal
program and a life-long community of support, we enable Adwait
entrepreneurs to launch and sustain independent, Henna
Jalgaln
high-impact Fellowships to build local leadership. Subhankar

Thane
Prasanth
Mumbai Mumbai
Teach For India Locations
Nitish TFIx 2017 Cohort

Rural Bengaluru
“ TFIx taught me the balance between soul and system. ”

TFIx 2018 Cohort
- Vivek Kumar, TFIx entrepreneur, Rajasthan Jaideep
Mysore/
Bengaluru
INNOVATION CELL
The Kids Education Revolution is a committed collective of schools and educational

organizations that are working towards reimagining education at scale and are driven
by a profound belief in the power of student leadership.
KER partners practice 5 principles and the approach of love through their work. This
culminates in a student-led National Summit that aims to bring students and educators
closer together towards a partnership that is shared and equal.
Safe Spaces Kids and Educators Kids as Regional, National Experiments in a

for Voice as Partners Change-makers and International Reimagined Education
Dialogue
“ To me, a reimagined education is making a student aware of her potential and what she can contribute to the
world. But more than that, it’s an exploration of the self. ”
- Naba, Teach For India Student Intern
INNOVATION CELL
Firki was designed to take Teach For India's learning on teacher development across the country.
It is a world-class, open source online teacher training portal.
Firki Online Courses Practice in Classrooms Firki in-person/online Learning Circle
Teachers create Identify and Meet in a Reflect in their Observe and Receive a certificate
a learning group and begin a course. learning circle. journal and make share feedback after completing
appoint a facilitator. a note of next steps. with their peers. each level.
“ Firki has helped us change the disastrous age-old one way teacher interaction and rote memorization tradition; we
now focus on designing activity-based lessons that students will enjoy. It has made us forward thinking. ”
- Nandini, Teacher and Firki User
WORK OF OUR NATIONAL VERTICALS
Work of our national verticals
Fellowship Fellowship Training Alumni
Recruitment Selection and Impact Impact
Human Strategy
Development
Resources and Learning
Technology Finance Administration Communications

Fellowship Recruitment
The Recruitment team engages 40,000 candidates yearly to bring in 600 individuals from top colleges and corporates
who are eager to leverage the Fellowship as a leadership development opportunity.
800
61%
70%
Stories of impact
700 56% 57% 60%
54% 55%
600 684
53% Engagement with Christ University, a Tier 1 College in Bangalore, shows the
52% 53% 633 50%
500
50%
586 power of depth in institutional engagement. This year, the team built
545 40%
400 481
513 partnerships with multiple college departments, organized presentations with
30%
300 over 500 students, and participated in several campus events. This led to an
200 289 20% increase of 50% in applications with 19 Fellows joining us at Institute, almost
260
100
137
10% tripling the number of Fellows that joined us in the previous year.
87
0 0%
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
The matriculation strategy saw a complete overhaul in 2018, based on learnings
and feedback collated from Fellows, candidates, recruiters and city teams. The
Cohort Size Matriculation rate
team focused on four key priority areas – applicant experience, barrier resolution,
team training and collaboration with cities. This led to tighter, higher quality
Snapshot of the vertical operations, creating a foundation of training resources, and a 4% increase in
The Fellowship Recruitment vertical was created to bring in 87 leaders to serve two confirmations compared to last year.
cities. Today, the team is spread across nine cities, and brings in 40,000
registrations, 16,000 applications and 600 Fellows a year. The team focuses on The team created a fresh recruitment campaign to align on messaging and
positioning Teach For India as a leading recruiter in top universities and create the amplify our value proposition. This led to a 38% increase in registrations on our
most aspirational candidate experience. website.
Over the years

Year of inception: 2008-2009 The way ahead
Number of Staff members in year of inception: 5 In the next 5 years, the Recruitment vertical aims to expand our Fellow base to
Number of Staff members today: 25 1,200 Fellows a year. The team is continuously innovating with specialized roles
2008-2009: Recruited 87 leaders to serve two cities. to bring depth to operations such campaign leaders central management,
2017: Created a new strategy focused to deepen presence in colleges, tighten early engagement in institutions, central outreach partnerships.
operations and maintain a strong culture at the heart of the team.
Fellowship Selection
The Fellowship Selection team identifies top talent to become leaders in classrooms who go on to become advocates
of educational equity as our Alumni.
Snapshot of the vertical Stories of impact

Over the years, the Fellowship Selection team has leveraged exposure to successful Every year, the team collaborates across verticals and has approximately 120
artificial intelligence platforms in its process. The team has utilized integrated reviewers (Staff, Fellows and Alumni) go through the Reviewer Program and
impact assessment to enhance model development and prepared for scale by approximately 90-100 Staff members go through our Selector Program.
minimizing human intervention and identifying creative ways to keep the heart of
the selection process while automating. The team has garnered consistent high Net Promoter Scores (NPS) for applicant
experience with an NPS of 97.98 for those who have gone through the entire
Selection process.
Over the years
Year over year, the team increases in Model Recommendation and Final Decision
Year of inception: 2009
Alignment!
Number of Staff members in year of inception: 1
Number of Staff members today: 12
2009: Adopted Teach For America’s model (with slight contextual changes).
2012-2013: Adapted the model using findings from research conducted by
Columbia University and our staff. The way ahead
2013-2016: Moved from Excel to Salesforce, an online platform to host our hiring Over the next few years, the Selection vertical aims at increasing automation
process, streamlined the system and made research our priority. in order to prepare for scale and focus research on type 1 and type 2 errors
2017: Restructured team to allow for mastery. and further collaboration to facilitate model development.
Training and Impact

The Training and Impact Team has impacted 38,000 students through training programs and dedicated support of
over 3,600 Fellows and 300 staff members over the last 7 years.

The Training and Impact vertical supports all our seven cities in executing the Fellowship The Leadership Development Journey Framework has driven holistic outcomes
Program by setting standards, creating tools and resources, and facilitating learning for for 5 years. It defined the outcomes we desired for our Students (Student Vision
Fellows and Program Staff. As a central team, it learns from the ground and designs Scale) and Fellows (Fellow Commitments Scale), outlined the competencies that
national training to continuously push the bar for our students and Fellows. need to be developed towards meeting these outcomes and the ecosystem of
opportunities that can be accessed for that.
Over the years The Training and Impact team has given 10 cohorts a strong start in 19 national
institutes.
Year of inception: 2010-2011
The Fellow Curriculum and Assessment has equipped cities to design contextual
training while maintaining standards for Fellow Development that’s common
2011: Created to stabilize strong student outcomes through standardized training
across all cities. The team has developed over 60 courses aligned to the Fellow
and development of training materials and resources.
Curriculum to help Fellows access high quality training.
2016: 16 team members worked across Student leadership, Fellow leadership,
communication & learning and Institute, and introduced Self Learning Hours.
Transformational Impact Journey has distilled learnings from more than 50
2017: In alignment with Role of the Centre approach, moved to a 6 member
classrooms and captured more than 350 videos that have been used in multiple
team.
trainings and been viewed by thousands of Fellows and Staff members.
The way ahead

In the next 3 years, the Training and Impact team aims to be the centre of
excellence in teaching and learning to help build leaders who will eliminate
educational inequity.
Alumni Impact
The Alumni Vertical will accelerate the individual and collective impact of Teach For India’s 2500-strong and growing
Alumni network, towards enabling 1 million students attain an excellent education.

The Alumni Impact Vertical was created to support Teach For India’s long-term The InnovatED incubation program has provided support (in the form of a
theory of change. The team supports individual Alumni to create impact through monthly stipend, skill-building workshops, access to networks and more) to over
positions of influence at all levels of the education system. This vertical creates 30 early-stage education entrepreneurs over the last 3 years, helping them raise
platforms that enable collectives of Alumni and partners to collaborate towards follow-up capital, refine their solutions and grow their teams.
shared goals and build partnerships that ultimately serve the need of
transformational leadership for the education ecosystem in India. The External Career Fair, for 3 consecutive years, has brought over 100
employers interested in recruiting Fellows. Nearly 50% of Fellows in 2017-18
secured job opportunities directly through the Career Fair.
Over the years
The Mumbai, Pune, Delhi and Bangalore Alumni Chapters, led by a voluntary
Year of inception: 2010-11
‘steering committee’ of Alumni have organized formal and informal events and
initiatives to engage their local Alumni networks. These have ranged from panel
Number of Staff members today: 27 (1 Central team + 7 City teams)
discussions to education hackathons to informal mixers to skill-building tracks.
2012: First Career Fair hosted for Fellows and the first ever Alumni Survey rolled
out.
The Fellow Durbar model has provided a platform to over 1,000 Fellows, Staff
2014: First set of Alumni Chapters initiated (in Pune, Mumbai and Delhi).
and Alumni to share their knowledge, skills and interests and form connections
2015: Launched InnovatED, a support program for entrepreneurs in the
with one another.
education ecosystem.
2016: Created an Alumni Strategy for the coming 5 years.
2017: Launched a series of incubation programs for Alumni.
The way ahead

In the next 4 years, the Alumni Impact vertical will accelerate the impact of Alumni
by incubating 50 education entrepreneurs and 250 school and system leaders.
The team will enable the growth of 100+ Alumni-led projects and communities to
solve contextual problems and facilitate learning and collaboration while enabling
6,000 Alumni to share information, opportunities and resources seamlessly
through technology platforms.
Human Resources
The Human Resources team identifies and selects exceptional Staff, accelerates their development and creates a
culture of contribution, support, inspiration and learning to bring out each individual’s best-self.

The Human Resource vertical is focused on strengthening our operational Our approach to performance management and development has changed
backbone with clear systems, processes and technology. It is working towards significantly over the years. We started with 2x2 feedback in 2009 and have now
creating a lean organization by establishing a strategic organizational structure moved to a framework anchored in our culture and values that looks at an
and hiring top talent at the senior level. employee's overall growth and performance across four parameters:
Contribution, Support, Inspiration and Learning.
Over the years Our internship program attracts over 100 interns year on year who not only
Year of inception: 2009 become advocates of our movement but also form an important pipeline for
Number of Staff members in year of inception: 1 both Staff and Fellowship openings.
2010-15: Average Staff headcount growth rate was 25%
2015-17: Stabilized the headcount growth rate to 10%
2017-18: Headcount growth rate peaked in line with phase 3 plans, added Staff to The way ahead
execute Alumni, Student Leadership and Innovation Cell (TFIx, KER, Firki) Over the next few years the Human Resources team will construct and implement
strategies. a competency framework that will bind together all areas of work from sourcing
2017-18: Increased tenure at Senior Manager level and higher positions. and hiring to exits and succession planning. The team will continue to build
efficiency and accuracy into the search for the right people and will codify what it
truly means to develop leadership by pulling together best practices and create
proof points for strong management and coaching.
Development
The Development team has built strategic partnerships to grow financial support 15x since 2009, on track to
fuel over ₹70 Crores in 2018-19.
66
69 Stories of impact
53 The team has successfully raised the requisite annual budget for the past ten
44.5 years. We have revised our strategy and mobilized teams to attend to the
34 challenges of fuelling exponential growth in the coming years.
10.31 22
2.09 4.35 17.5
Through deep engagement, continuous program immersion and persistent
2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18
project management, the team has not only maintained a healthy renewal
rate of over 80%+, but it has also built a large base of champions for the
Funds raised (in Cr) movement.
Snapshot of the vertical Our donor partnerships extend far beyond just financial support: Omidyar,
one of our strongest supporters, has helped the organization think through
The vertical has evolved from a CEO-CFO-driven two-member team to a mature its people strategy. DHL, a long term supporter, assists students after they
national and regional fundraising team of 20 people. Over the years the team has graduate grade 10 through scholarship and mentoring. 4 students from
built over 4,300 institutional and individual supporters, raising 72 Cr. in 2018-19 alone. Teach For India were placed in Maersk GPRO as summer interns, where they
were trained on various aspects of the shipping and logistics field for 2 weeks.
Over the years
Number of Staff members in year of inception: 2 The way ahead
2017: Teach For India ranked as one of the top 7 NGOs in the country in terms of In the next 5 years, as the budget ramps up to ₹100+ Cr. the team will examine the
budget raised. shifts to be made to raise funds and operate at this scale. The vertical has recently
2017-18: Friends of Teach For India (FTFI) was setup to support fundraising been re-structured into new business acquisition and relationship engagement.
from the US diaspora. Going forward as part of a long term strategy we will explore fresh workstreams
such as multi-laterals, Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) and new geographies
including the United Kingdom.
Strategy and Learning

The Strategy and Learning Team facilitates organisation wide learning to build greater excellence across functions.

The primary purpose of the Strategy and Learning team is to enable Teach For India to The quarterly reporting process that was set in place to promote regular
operate at a high level of effectiveness (for a given amount of resources) which in turn monitoring and reflective activities among National Verticals, and record evidence
helps deepen and sustain impact. The team is responsible for holding the big picture of progress over time is presently in its 5th iteration. The report is shared with the
when the organization reviews and reflects on achievements of its various teams and entire Teach For India community and acts as a central cache of updates for
the way forward. multiple purposes across the organization.
Over the past year, the Data Committee executed the quarterly reporting cycle,
Over the years set up the Organisational Dashboard, as well as handled internal and external
Year of inception: 2016 data-related queries by coordinating with all National and City teams, leading to
Number of Staff members in year of inception: 2 significant reduction in man hours spent on gathering and disseminating data.
Number of Staff members today/ growth story: 8
2015-17: Set up the Fellow Engagement Survey. In 2017, the Planning Champions Learning Circle, that was mandated to plan and
2017: Initiated quarterly organizational reports; supported by reporting manage the cross organisational alignment of team strategies with the Phase 3
guidelines, and organization health indicators. vision and organizational goals, spent 273 person-hours understanding and
2017: Established the Data Committee. discussing the planning process and sharing learnings from their respective
2017: Set up the Organisational Dashboard. teams. The creation of a structured and centrally managed planning process
saved an estimated 26% of planning time in the Cities relative to 2016.
The way ahead

Over the next 5 years, in close partnership with National and City teams, Strategy
and Learning aims to set in place robust learning systems that will allow each team
to take ownership for their own learning, leading to evidence-based decision
making at every level of the organisation.
Technology
The Technology team creates solutions that enable collaboration and increase operational efficiency to
empower Teach For India and its stakeholders toward increased effectiveness.

The Technology team works to standardise data streams and enrich our suite of The team provided an inspiring experience to Program applicants via a single
productivity and knowledge management applications. The team provides software multifunctional platform and empowered our Selection team to review these
solutions towards communication, collaboration and engagement across Teach For India. applications at scale.
Implemented and automated various key aspects of the Recruitment, Selection

Over the years and Matriculation processes and data on Salesforce.
Number of Staff members in year of inception: 1 Enabled a more seamless placement process for Fellows and hiring organizations
Number of Staff members today: 12 through the External Career Fair and Internal Career Fair portal.
2012: Implemented organization processes on Salesforce.
2014: Switched to a custom built modern app for accepting applications.
2017: Custom built portal to facilitate the External Career Fair.
2018: Launched Teach For India Connect to facilitate connections between The way ahead
Alumni, Staff and employers. Over the next few years the Technology team will automate current manual or
semi-automated processes to improve Teach For India’s organizational efficiency
and effectiveness. The team will provide a platform to leverage data that will in
turn enable evidence-based conversations, effective decision making and impact
measurement in Program and Alumni work.
Finance
The Finance Team is the backbone of program operations through its support of the organisation’s accounting
and finance, compliance, legal and secretarial functions.

The vertical was created to ensure smooth and accurate processes for finance and to The Finance team has championed a culture of resourcefulness within Teach For
meet the compliance needs of the program. The team supports everything related to India and has the highest staff retention percentage.
receipts, payments, donor reporting (financial aspects), compliances under various
Statutory and Government Regulations. The team plays an important role as the custodian of transparency in the organi-
sation. In 2015, Teach For India received an award for being one of India’s “Most
Ethical Companies” under the “Social Cause & Empowerment” category.
Over the years
Year of inception: 2009 Sustained 10 years of financial discipline by successfully staying within budget
Number of Staff members in year of inception: 2 and meeting all regulatory compliances while sharing finance know how with
Number of Staff members today: 8 start-ups and young entrepreneurs within Teach For India’s network.
2009: Systems and policies framed.
2013: Received Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) permissions.
2015: Streamlined donor reporting formats.
2016: Set up a 501 (c) 3 organization Friends of Teach For India in the United States. The way ahead
2017: Automated systems through introduction of FYLE for reimbursements. In the next 5 years, the Finance team will automate budgeting , MIS and the donor
reporting process. Going forward we aim to maintain a lean team by getting more
efficient while managing budgets in the range of ₹100 Cr.
Administration
The Administration Team is the backbone of Teach For India’s operations, supporting administrative needs and
resource requirements of all departments.

The vertical was created to improve the overall efficiency of the organization by providing Managed cost savings worth tens of thousands, through strong procurement
timely and seamless back office support to all operations and cater to all specific and day policies and vendor negotiations.
to day operational resource requirements like space, logistics, office consumables
amongst others. Successfully managed 19 Institute operations in 10 years while also managing
both small scale and large scale events like Staff and Fellow retreats, Maya
musical, InspirED, Teach For All conference and Kids Education Revolution.
Over the years
Year of inception: 2009 Set up and managed Teach For India offices in 7 cities and achieved the highest
Number of Staff members in year of inception: 2 internal customer satisfaction scores.
Number of Staff members today/ growth story: 4
2009: Managed operations for our first 5 week residential program, Institute, and
set up our offices in Mumbai and Pune.
2010: Established processes, procedures and vendor database. The way ahead
2013: Setup Teach For India’s seventh office (in Amdavad), partial automation of In the next 5 years, the Administration team will continue to strengthen its
travel booking. operations through automation. The team will support the “Caring For People”
2014: Managed Medical Insurance for all Staff. program by constantly improving the quality of its services in the areas of health
2016: Automated Institute registration process. and insurance, fitness, travel, hotels and others.
Communications
The Communications team amplifies the voices of our Students, Fellows, Alumni and Staff so that people are
inspired to give all children an excellent education.

Over the years, the Communications team has been responsible for the overall branding The Communications team has launched four exclusive recruitment campaigns
of the organisation. Our scope of work includes developing a quality funnel of potential in the last decade to help build a quality pipeline of potential Fellows.
Fellows through a robust recruitment campaign and outreach plan. In addition, the team
is dedicatedly publishing stories from our classrooms in both the online and print space. The team launched a new brand identity, guidelines, fonts and creative assets
hosted on a exclusive brand library (google site) which can be accessed by all staff
members to ensure consistency in our messaging and brand.
Over the years
Year of inception: 2009 The team has held over 60 events in the last decade showcasing our vision and
Number of Staff members in the year of inception: 2 the impact of Teach For India’s work for all our stakeholders – Students, Staff,
Number of Staff members today: 8 Fellows and Alumni.
2015 - Set up regional communication support across cities to strengthen outreach
and consistency in messaging. We have 926,034 Facebook followers- the largest following amongst all the Teach
2016- Updated and launched Teach For India’s new website. For countries as of 2018 and have harnessed over 998 print mentions over 3
2017 - Launched new brand guidelines and rolled out its use effectively across cities. years.
The way ahead

In the next 5 years, the Communications vertical aims at increasing its social media
presence exponentially by making sure we have the right message out to the right
audience at the right time, consistently and streamline the use of our brand
guidelines across all our seven offices.
MEDIA
Media
The voice of Teach For India's Students, Fellows and Alumni in the media is changing the conversation around
quality education in India.
Our Students, Fellows and Alumni are challenging the status quo in education by transforming their schools, impacting their community, setting up
new ventures, creating new opportunities in the education sector and more. Their stories are regularly featured in leading mass media channels
through articles, radio shows and interviews.
Total media mentions in print publications - 988+ (2015-18)
Twitter followers - 1,381,041
Instagram followers - 28,139
LinkedIn followers - 30, 799
Facebook followers - 926,034

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THE COLORS

- “Colors,” by Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends.

The road to the

WHERE WE ARE GOING

WHY SUPPORT TEACH FOR INDIA

India’s education crisis

30% 25% 47% 57% 67% 75%

Our education crisis will have severe repercussions

The last decade has shown us

A growing literacy rate

Education as a fundamental right

Sources - 1. Primary Education in India: Progress and Challenges, 2015

Addressing the complex challenge of educational Early Childhood School Teaching

puzzle; successfully putting the pieces together

Student Health Private Sector

ONE DAY, ALL CHILDREN

TO BUILD A MOVEMENT OF LEADERS

REFLECTION INTEGRITY EXCELLENCE SENSE OF LOVE

We aim to work in communities

Who are Teach For India kids?

Top 5 challenges Teach For India kids continue to face

MALNUTRITION VIOLENCE INFRASTRUCTURAL LACK OF GOOD MIGRATION

Our model catalyzes

Impact schools and communities

Cultivate lifelong leadership

Infuse Alumni across puzzle pieces

Serving in positions of leadership and inﬂuence at every level of Early Childhood

change across India. Student Health

Innovate and scale

LORETO COLLEGE SRM INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MIT-COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

6-8% of applicants are accepted into the Fellowship

15,000 people from 2000 colleges and 2400 private sector

On college campuses, we are the largest and most

2. Our Fellows impact students and communities

Students on a diﬀerent life path

3. We cultivate lifelong leadership

Creates opportunities and

74% have stayed in education A digital platform that connects

4. We help infuse our Alumni across puzzle pieces

Early Childhood School Finance

Student Health Private Sector

We innovate and scale

Friends of Teach For India board members

We have scaled signiﬁcantly

2009-10 2011-12 2013-14 2015-16 2017-18

Our leaders span sectors

Student Health Private Sector

For dozens of our Alumni, the decision to join Teach

Mohini gave students an Nate noticed that schools

Spending two years as teachers in low-income schools exposes

Leading change with communities

Teach For India Alumni are setting up and leading

Over 35 mission-driven organizations have been

Inqui Lab Foundation

Several Teach For India Alumni are working closely with

Private sector organizations play a critical role in

The two-year Fellowship exposes Fellows to the

Over 150 Alumni have completed advanced degrees

Our Alumni fuel

We will double to reach

our Fellows and Alumni. We will simultaneously

Student Health Private Sector

We will redeﬁne an excellent