Presentation about Teachers Without Borders

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Teachers Without Borders was founded in 2000 in order to close the education divide by connecting teachers to information and each other.

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Fred Mednick, FounderNov. 10, 2011

59 million teachers

…the largest professionally-trained group in the world

Brains are evenly distributed around the world…

…but education is not

Leaders aren’t born or made;

they just show up

Certificate of Teaching Mastery

Community Teaching & Learning Center

Peace and Human Rights Education

Millennium Development Ambassadors

TWB Toolset

Teacher Pulse: Mobile Evaluation

A Hard Question

Problem: “I can rate and provide feedback on a restaurant, but how come I can’t rate or show

impacts on projects in my community?”

An active, global human network

…will not let you down

Emergency Education

Gujurat, India

Kashmir/Pakistan

Bam, Iran

Sichuan, China

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

“When you shake another’s hand…

…that is the time you truly feel your own.”

- Martin Buber

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