Can change the world

Little good things,

good thoughts,

good words,

good deeds,

Millions of little things together,

If you want to do something,do it from your heart

- Ashfaq, Teach For India student

TEACH INDIAFOR

When an individual can look around and see a connection between

the man that has too much bread and the man that has too little,

then it becomes his/her human obligation to take action. Teaching

was my way of taking action.

- Mariyam Farooq, Teach For America Alumna, Teach For All Staff

and Teach For India startup team

VISION

MISSION

To create a movement of leaders who will eliminate inequity in education

To match up to the lives of great souls like Gandhiji, Mother Teresa and

Martin Luther King Jr. and great statesmen like Nehru, Ambedkar and

Patel is a daunting aspiration and responsibility. I take cautious steps

every day towards meeting that grand vision. Words are easy. All of us

can find a moment of inspiration in which to say them. Living them in

action in every waking moment requires unbelievable amounts of

courage and sustained inspiration.

- Tarun Cherukuri, Teach For India Alumnus 2009

THEORY OF CHANGE

With a positive impact on both students and teachers, Teach For India's

concept is exemplary. Teaching students from underprivileged

backgrounds can be a life changing experience. What can be more

motivating than knowing you are playing a key role in transforming their

entire future?

- Anand Mahindra, Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra Limited

Short Term -

Teach For India kids on a different life path

Long Term -

Leaders working until ALL children attain an excellent education

Toshif started the year somewhere above a grade 1 level in Reading

Comprehension and now he's got 93% on a grade 4 paper, in class 4.

At the beginning of the year, he had problems managing his anger

and now most of his classmates describe him as passionate, helpful and

caring.

- Sanyukta Bafna, Teach For India Fellow 2011

My skin is kind of sort of brownish

Pinkish yellowish white.

My eyes are grayish blueish green,

But I'm told they look orange in the night.

My hair is reddish blondish brown,

But it's silver when it's wet.

And all the colors I am inside

Have not been invented yet.

- Shel Silverstein

Teach For India is not just about what you do; it is about who you are.

A JOURNEY OF SELF

Find your colours.

Know, understand and care about

the colours of those around you.

You cannot give what you don't have. Therefore at Teach For India, we

cannot teach our kids what we have not learnt ourselves, we cannot

drive self awareness in others If we are not striving towards it ourselves,

we cannot lead others if we do not know how to lead ourselves.

Anasuya Menon, Training Team

TEACH FOR INDIA'S MOST

IMPORTANT WORDS

CHILDA precious, loving bundle of potential.

I realize one of our biggest

strengths is that we are all on the

side of the child majority of

people we come across have

different agendas, but we should

uphold this one.

- Saurabh Taneja, Teach For India

Alumnus, 2009

FELLOWA teacher committed to doing what it takes to put every child on a different life path.

When I think of a TFI Fellow, I think of a young adult who envisions a

different India. A kinder, compassionate, more equitable India. A brave

leader who is working rigorously in the classroom to give 40 students access

to a new world that lifts them out of poverty. A believer who will seize

opportunities to partner with the community, invest stakeholders, and gain

as much knowledge as possible so that, one day, years from now, all children

in India will attain an excellent education.

- Jeet Patel, Recruitment Director

When I think of a Teach For India child, I think about a kid who is

constantly engaged in learning, be it inside or outside the class. I see him

or her exhibiting values, helping everyone around and expressing

gratitude. I want to see this kid always striving to get better - a better

student, a better human being and a better citizen.

- Shivani Gandhi, City Team, Hyderabad

ALUMNIA Teach For India graduate who works for an India where every

child attains an excellent education.

STAFF AS LEADERSA leader building a movement of leaders.

I hope that our

alumni will create

sustainable solutions

and initiatives to all

the problems and

obstacles that come

in the way of

providing excellent

education for all

students.

- Venil Ali, City Team,

Mumbai

I hope our alumni

have a multiplier

effect.

- Gayatri Lobo,

Strategy, Alumni and

Development Teams

I hope our alumni

embody our core

values, work

relentlessly for

children, foster co-

operation and

collective effort, and

are the strongest

advocates of our

movement.

- Saahil Sood, City

Team, Hyderabad A leader is best when

people barely know he

exists, when his work is

done, his aim fulfilled,

they will say: we did it

ourselves.

- Lao Tzu

Staff is the custodian of the vision,

mission and values of Teach For

India. They inspire and invest all the

stakeholders to become a part of

Teach For India and finally find their

puzzle piece and continue to be part

of the movement as alumni.

Anuja Kishore, HR Team

A DIFFERENT LIFE PATHReversing the statistics for our children through academic achievement,

values and mindsets, and exposure and access.

TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIPThe kind of leadership that ensures every child across India

attains an excellent education.

I hope that my children never forget where they came from,

who they are today and what they want to be tomorrow. I

want them to not just use the voice we equip them with but to

use it judiciously and hope that this trickles down to a better

tomorrow where they empower their children with what they

have learnt to equip them to make informed decisions.

- Animesh Priya, Teach For India Fellow 2011

Transformational teaching fundamentally changes students' life

outcomes and equips them with opportunity, equity, and choice.

It's leadership that does whatever it takes to ensure our students

reach that vision - and thus their full potential.

- Sandeep Rai, City Team, Pune

What constitutes a different life path is unique to each child we

work with. I think it is about addressing a need/gap - which for

some children might be vision, for others academics, for others

confidence, for others parental support. To me it means working

to support a child to change whatever is holding them back from

reaching their full potential.

- Anna Schofield, City Team, Delhi

Transformational leadership to me is the ability to envision a never

before imagined future and enabling a team to accomplish it by

getting them to perform at levels they never believed they were

capable of.

- Sidharth Agarwal, City Team, Pune

THANK YOUEvery day, we have so much to be thankful for.

We must balance the urgency of our mission with being gentle on ourselves,

each other, and Teach For India.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

Gandhiji

I think for me gratitude is about finding and appreciating joy in

smallest of things in the people, places and things around me and

saying thank you for those smallest of things, recognizing the joy

and happiness they bring to me and others.

- Emma Francis, City Team, Delhi

ANDWe believe most things are not or, but and.

When you have the choice of not doing something or doing something,

go ahead and do it.

I think of all the kids we work

with and all the kids we want

to reach. I think of all the

people behind the scenes,

working passionately, making

tough decisions, working

against odds every single day

to make amazing things

happen for all our kids. I think

of the joy in small things and

it means that I know we are

on the path of getting to one

day all children.

- Shrutika JhadavONE TEAM. ONE MISSION While we value our individual opinions, we know that only our collective

impact will take us to our mission.

BE GENTLE

I HOPE YOU DANCE

Today, I asked students to

write down what comes to

their mind when they hear the

word 'hero.' There were the

obvious Salman Khan and

Sharukh Khan answers and

then there was Toshif's

answer. He said, "When I hear

the word hero it reminds me

of teachers because they help

children everyday, all the time

and a hero's job is also to help

people."

- Sanyukta Bafna, Teach For

India Fellow, 2011

Noun. A toy consisting of vanes of coloured paper or plastic pinned to a stick

so that they revolve when blown on.

TEACH FOR INDIA'S SYMBOLS

THE FIRKI

Round and round

My Firki spins

Its colours run and run

And show me with great certainty

A movement has begun

Noun. A problem or enigma that tests the ingenuity of the solver.

To solve educational inequity, we need effective, strong leadership in each

piece of this puzzle AND we need for our leaders to work together to solve

educational inequity.

THE PUZZLE OF EDUCATIONAL INEQUITY

TEACH FOR INDIA'S

CORE VALUESWhen I help someone when nobody is looking at me like Didi or

my parents. I help because it is a good thing and a kind thing to

do.

- Mubashera, Teach For India student

- Nitin, Teach For India

student

We think about our area of work and what each core value looks like for

us, and for Teach For India. We know that our journey of leadership is a

journey of learning, and living our core values.

As I walked into class today, Samreen, all of 8,

comes up to me and gives me a small little

packet. In her broken English she tells me that

since I write with chalk on the board every

day my hands get dirty and so she has got me

these plastic gloves to prevent that from

happening. How could I not oblige? At the

cost of looking stupid, I walked through school

all day wearing a plastic glove!

Zafar Bhatri, Teach For India Fellow, 2012

Every time we love, we receive. Love is my spiritual practice. If you love all, you can

effortlessly serve all. I try to practice love in every moment. I try to love myself first

and then I try to love everyone I meet. I believe small is beautiful. As Mother Teresa

said, "we can do no great things; only small things with great love." So if love is in

the center, everything will naturally come together.

- Jayesh bhai

To me it means to help

someone till he or she

gets success.

A collection of people that

achieves much more than

the sum of their parts

through collaborating,

supporting and

complementing each

other.

- Tomos Davies, Operations

Size of team

doesn't matter.

We work together

and help everyone

because in team

we work as one.

- Akhil, Teach For India student

When the Indian cricket team

wins, India wins as a team.

- Ashfaq, Teach For India student

It means when

I am writing a

test and I am

scared because

I don't know

one answer

and then the student in front

knows and I cansee the answer

in his paper but I don't copy

because that is wrong.

That is integrity.

- Ovez, Teach For India student

I feel that your actions

should be true like your

words.

- Nitin, Teach For India

student

Have the courage to

follow your heart and

intuition. They somehow

already know what you

truly want to become.

Everything else is

secondary.

- Steve Jobs

Respect means I invite open

feedback and have faith in

myself to reflect and learn. It also

means I will take care of my

needs and respect my body, my

mind and relationships that

matter.

Humility is internalising my

favourite three lines:

Your stay on this earth is short

Your role dispensable

and your impact inconsequential

- Anu Aga, Teach For India

Chairperson, Teach For India Board

Come first in

class but don't

talk about it so

much. Help

others also do

their best.

- Masuma, Teach For India

student

Respecting

someone in

front and behind

that person

same way is

respect .

- Aman, Teach For India student

Making paper

planes with

the same

paper even

though

your first

plane has

crashed. Problem is with the

way you made the

plane not with the paper, no,

Didi?

- Gulam Ali, Teach For India

student

Resourcefulness is getting

Shaheen to say no to Kate,

taking money from Sid to give

it to Somika, getting praised

for it by Jeet, often confusing

if not convincing others with

fancy jargon like book

balancing, CPF, budget etc.

and still managing to show

less spending to Anu and

Deepak and saving enough for

Gayatri's next year kitty

Dimple Gujral, Finance and

Admin Team

I'm not going through life with a safety net anymore. I'm a part of a bigger plan

that involves millions of little children and 45 of my own. I'm part of an

extraordinary team filled with people from all over the world who believe that

inequality can and WILL be demolished.

- Sharanya Ramesh, Teach For India Fellow 2012

If you want to do

something, do it from

your heart

- Ashfaq, Teach For India

student

- Aman, Teach For India

student

A person who never gives

up and he always tries his

best to change the world

I know that when I grow up I can be

who ever Iwant to be like a magician or

a doctor or a circus-walla.

Sense of possibility for me is having the

power to dream big and then taking the

responsibility to make it a reality.

- Romana Shaikh, Training Team- Sana, Teach For India student

When didi writes 'good' in my book, I want her to write

'excellent' next time, so I work hard even though my work

is good.

- Naved, Teach For India student

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are

powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens

us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does

not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other

people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children

do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not

just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we

unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated

from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others

- Marianne Williamson

A space to breathe and hear my instincts. A time to balance the

outer voices with my inner voice. A chance to make sense of what

has been, as well as to feel the energy of my questions and

convictions about what is to come.

- Emily Dew, City Team, Pune

Thinking

deeply for

something

great

- Ashfaq, Teach For India student

When we think

about what we

did bad or

good and how

we can

improve

- Ume Habiba, Teach For India

student

In 2015-16, we will:

1. Recruit, select and matriculate 1000 Fellows with the

potential to become leaders who will work relentlessly

to eliminate educational inequity.

2. Place every child that Teach For India works directly

with on a different life path through a focus on rigorous

academic growth, values and mindsets, exposure and

access.

3. Inspire, network and catalyze 2500 alumni who are at

the forefront of the educational reform movement,

working across sectors to ensure every child attains an

excellent education.

4. Generate national focus around the educational crisis

in India, the importance of educational equity and the

role that every person has to play in solving it.

5. Build Teach For India into a great, enduring institution

that has the talent, passion and resources needed to

reach our vision.

2016 BIG GOALS

Teach For India is not your

average work place. Its got a

buzz about it, a constant sense of

excitement and energy that

keeps everyone and everything

going faster. The best thing

about it? The freedom. You have

the freedom to make thing

happens. Have an idea that you

believe in? Small or big, its up to

you to make it come to life.

When a place pushes you to

think bigger and do more, when

the people around you are

young, excited and determined,

that's when you start discovering

what you're really capable of.

- Ayesha Dubash,Communications

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