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.

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.

Meow, a participant from the second cohort, was assigned to teach a 7th grade class, 50% of whom were not able to multiply or divide basic numbers. Change has been significant; for example, a student who was even able to subtract can now divide and explain the process to her friends.

Enseña Ecuador established Voces por la Educación (Voices for Education) to bring education to the forefront of the public agenda by leveraging the voices of students, teachers, and experts. It asks, what would happen if education were a priority for all of the country’s change makers? (Note this video is in Spanish.)

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.

A participant’s class of students won a competition to show off their work at a large teachers' conference. They worked endlessly in their spare time and cancelled other commitments to do the work because they were so excited about it. The City Council gave them dkr. 20.000 in recognition.

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.

Kassaga Arinaitwe, co-founder and CEO of Teach For Uganda, explains his belief that the foundation of a great education in his context is rooted in staying in, understanding, and working for your local community. In 25 years, students in Uganda will be fulfilling their potential and innovating for their nation.

Together with Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Teach For Ukraine developed a new pedagogical leadership program that integrates theory and practice, teacher training and leadership training, and that could be scaled in the future.