Schools in London, where Teach First has placed 5,500 teachers since 2003, have moved from being the lowest performing in England, to the highest performing.

In a recent strategy document, the Ministry of Education credited Noored Kooli with making the education system more flexible, innovative and diverse. The former chancellor of the Ministry also credited Noored Kooli with changing the understanding of what is possible among those in the education system.

Working in many of the most isolated rural communities in China; over the last 9 years we’ve grown from a tiny non-profit placing 15 fellows in Yunnan to a leading organisation. We’ve supported over 1,500 fellows and reached over 330,000 students in 220 elementary and middle schools, across five provinces. Here, our CEO & founder, Andrea Pasinetti, introduces stories of our fellows, students, partner schools, parents, local communities and supporters – all of whom are impacted by TFC. Each day our fellows lead students to achieve academic success, revamping libraries, building positive mind-sets to set students up for a brighter future.

Farah Mhanna teaches in a school located within an orphanage. Many of her students’ family members are routinely involved in armed conflict or have been injured or killed by gunfire. After gaining each other's trust, Farah and her students made a video about their lives and experiences.

InnovatED is an incubator for entrepreneurs from Teach For India who are working to create educational equity. The 8-month program will support entrepreneurs to establish organizations that meet the diverse needs of children.

Alumni and Echoing Green Fellows Justin Matthys and Richard Wilson created MathsPathway, a data-driven Learning & Teaching Model that is more than doubling the average growth rate of Australian students. Since starting in one school in 2013, Maths Pathway is now in 170+ schools, working with almost 2,000 teachers and 35,000 students.

Enseña por Argentina students led extracurricular activities within their school and flexed their social-emotional skills by developing a radio program and writing a book. (Note the video is in Spanish.)

Alumnus Quim Sabria is one of the four founders of EDpuzzle, a video editing and analytics application to help teachers engage students and track progress. EDpuzzle’s vision is that by 2020 every student and teacher will be a “click away” from access to an excellent education in their own language.

Three alumni launched More Than One Perspective, an organization that helps refugees with university degrees find work in Austria. In early 2017, they received a grant through the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Integration and the European Union to support their second cohort of refugees.

One of the first alumni is about to start as headteacher of a newly established school aimed at students from more vulnerable socio-economic areas. He was appointed because of his strong performance as a teacher and his prior experience in the private sector.

Three Teacher Fellows founded the Del Carmen Youth Club in their school community, and it has performed across their region. Presenting musicals in both English and Filipino, the Club and its founders have prompted praise from the mayor and a proposal to build an arts high school in the area.

While primary schools in Dhaka can have a student to teacher ratio of 120:1, Teach For Bangladesh is already seeing its students double their progress in English and math.

Participant Killian Simon created a daycare inside his school to provide support for teenage mothers. Although this goes beyond his core work as a teacher, this enables his students to better focus on their education. (Note this article is in French.)

Each year, Teach For Slovakia increases the number of its participants and alumni, and its impact on students and communities. It now operates under the permanent auspices of the president.

Teach For Armenia participant Rudolf Harutyunyan took a student-centered approach with Mark, a boy with a challenging reputation. Together, Rudolf and Mark helped change how Mark was treated at school, not just in Rudolf's class. Today, Mark has learned to read and write, comes to class prepared, and has started making friends.

The Anseye Pou Ayiti team prioritizes community as the unit of change and the source of solutions. For the team in Haiti, those who have themselves experienced inequity need to be leading the movement to end it.

Teach For Ghana participants Emily Emefa Fiankor and Wilhelmina B. Andoh-Kesson launched projects designed to build their students’ knowledge and inspire conversations about sexual and reproductive health issues. These projects highlighted the importance of empowering girls through education to help them gain the ability to navigate adolescence.

The stories told by these Vietnamese students illustrate the need for collective leadership that Teach For Vietnam is working to develop. These children have dreams for the future that are limited by financial needs. What if they felt the world was open to them?

Folawe Omikunle, CEO of Teach For Nigeria, is inspired by the hope she sees in communities in Lagos. As the program begins placing teachers there this fall, she believes that the hope will extend to the classroom as children's lives are transformed.

Teach For Afghanistan participant Lima Aman used her own money to purchase a fish to dissect for a lesson on fish anatomy. In addition to being successful with her class, the approach set an example for the school that is leading to more practical instruction in other classrooms.

Students and participants rallied their school community to start a sustainability project that includes a school garden. The project has inspired a sense of responsibility and leadership in students and resulted in improved academic achievement.