Strengthen

In Phase 4, we will continue to develop teacher leaders who provide an excellent, equitable education to their Students and are ready to enter the puzzle for educational equity.

Our Journey So Far

Teach For India’s Fellowship has had a sustainable and promising journey over the last twelve years. 3800 Fellows have completed the program. 120,000 have applied. 5000 students have graduated, and 32,000 are being currently impacted. That journey has been fueled by a relentless commitment to learn, get better, and make the Fellowship stronger.

Over the past twelve years, we have made significant iterations – on three different occasions - to Teach For India’s Fellowship:

2009

We designed Teach For India’s Fellowship. We delivered a high-quality Institute operations, built a nimble city support ecosystem, and acquired the staff needed to sustain and grow our program. We grew our Fellowship size by 3x – from 87 to 250 – over the next three years.

2013

We conceptualized the Leadership Development Journey and Student Vision Scale. We also made significant changes to the Program Manager role, introducing four critical operating hats. We more than doubled our Fellowship size – from 250 to 650 – during this phase.

2018

We redesigned our ecosystem of support, introduced local training models, revamped our Fellowship goals, made significant changes to placements and safety guidelines, and introduced a more robust ecosystem of support for PMs. We ensured a constant Fellowship scale – at 550 – during this phase.

As we enter Phase Four, we have attempted to design a fourth iteration of the Fellowship: one that increases in scale and reach while simultaneously improving its quality and impact.

The 8C's will be our friends in this journey!

Fellows will explore Leadership in Teaching (LiT) through the five pillars.

Fellowship 4.0

In Phase 4, the Fellowship will be rooted in our new Leadership Development Journey, with our Students, Fellows and Staff members embodying the 3 commitments and 8C's:

Self: Prepare for a puzzle piece of our choice

We will do this by engaging the Cs to care for ourselves, discover who we are, cultivate belief in ourselves, finding our purpose and mastering our learning goals.

Other : Accelerate the learning of others to unleash their potential

We will do this by engaging the Cs to operate with love and belief in others, value diversity and cherish our common humanity.

India : Work in partnership for educational equity/a better India

We will do this by engaging the C’s to understand inequity and its root causes, discover the truth of the world, live in harmony with the environment around us, envision and create solutions for a better India.

Click here to know more about the new Leadership Development Journey.

Our goals

Student Outcomes

Graduation rates: All Students will graduate from 10th standard and get into competitive junior colleges of their choice
Gap to grade: Reduce by 70%
Significantly better than the alternative: Students outgrow peers by 3x in Math and Literacy
Holistic Outcomes: All Students on a 3/4 on our Student Vision Scale

Fellow Outcomes

Self: All Fellows grow to foundational proficiency on the Leadership is Teaching (LiT) framework. 35% graduate with advance proficiency on core competencies.
Other: All Fellows will graduate having made significant growth with their students AND in partnering with stakeholders
India:
- 95% of Fellows will graduate being clear on their top puzzle piece and role
- 95% of Fellows will be placed or admitted to graduate school
- 70% of Fellows will stay in education towards SEDG

Fellow Culture and Experience

Improve our current NPS to a 30: great. Link scale to NPS and EFR of individual regions.
Ensure attrition rate of less than 10% per cohort.

Assessing our progress

Student Impact

Introduce systematic assessments for Literacy
Overhaul our Math assessment system
Track holistic growth of our Students on the three commitments through a revamped Student Vision Scale and Student Portfolios
Develop a formative assessment system, with questions for every chapter across every grade level, for teachers to use.

Fellow Impact

Fellow portfolio to track growth across the three commitments which will include artefacts exemplifying their growth
Pen-and-paper assessments and evaluation at key points in the Fellowship

Changes in delivery of our program

Accountability

Fellow Portfolio to measure performance of a Fellow across holistic indicators, with graduation, support plans and exits linked to a minimum standard of performance on the portfolio over time.
Program Manager Performance Management shifts through centralized hiring, guidelines and transparent data systems to align on performance ratings, support plans, promotions and exits.
Streamline Fellow Time Management, by mapping their time across the two years to specific domains of teaching, professional development, preparation, community development and remediation.
Build a mandate for knowledge management to ensure collection of session plans for the core curriculum.

Content Pedagogy

Source better STEM teachers, via Recruitment, to ensure higher math and science instructional outcomes.
Predesigned chapter plans for Fellows – inclusive of a lesson plan, worksheets, assessment questions, and resources to deepen teacher content knowledge
Introduce content modules for all regions, while simultaneously equipping regions for advanced content support, with Fellows submitting a vision of excellence for each grade.
Restructure training capacity for additional support in our regions.

Coaching and Management Capacities

Changes in hiring for Program Managers and Program Leads, based on past learnings
Revamp and widen the ecosystem of support for Program Managers and Program Leads
Streamline how we coach Fellows through a common repertoire of tools, resources, frequency guidelines, and templates
Build a one-stop site that houses videos and best-practice tools spanning the gamut of coaching practices.

Model, Innovations and Expansions

Migrate our mode of instruction to a blended model that leverages both in-person instruction and technology.
Build in a systems orientation into our Fellow curriculum, thus ensuring our Fellows graduate with the knowledge, skills, and orientations to navigate and, one day, transform the educational landscape as Alumni.
Introduce an innovation challenge for Fellows who want (and are ready) to experiment and contextualize best practices from across the world. Ready and interested Fellows can apply for a budget to use within their classrooms.
Pilot a bridge program for children who are more than three years behind grade level. Students will be required to enter a 90-day after-school / summer program that runs on a standardized curriculum.
Build a student-alumni support program that will offer light touch support, and college-entrance support, for students post tenth standard.