Classroom Leadership

Farah Mhanna is a Teach For Lebanon Fellow who teaches in a school located within the Nader Association, an orphanage with a mission to protect and educate children with serious social, economic, and emotional problems. Farah's students, a group of six 12-15 year olds, live at the orphanage, which provides them with shelter and care. Many of their parents and extended family members are routinely involved in armed conflict or were injured or killed by gunfire.

“I will do whatever it takes to help her achieve her dreams. My dreams were broken, but I will never break my children’s dreams.”

The following is an excerpt from an article in the Nepali Times by Cynthia Choo, highlighting Teach For Nepal's efforts to expand educational opportunity for all children in Nepal.

At the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) in November, more than 1,500 experts and thought leaders from around the world gathered in Doha, Qatar to share solutions to the most pressing challenges facing education. The summit's theme—Imagine-Create-Learn: Creativity at the Heart of Education—highlighted how in our interconnected world, we can accelerate progress by learning from each other’s experiences and creative solutions.

Teach For All has been accepted into UNESCO's International Task Force on Teachers, an initiative of Education For All (EFA), the movement to support the achievement of internationally set education goals as well as other efforts, such as  the Global Education First Initiative (GEFI), launched by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. The task force is the hub for teacher-focused initiatives and a global alliance of EFA partners working together to address the need for more qualified and motivated teachers worldwide.