About Teach For India
Teach For India was founded in 2008. Inspired by Teach For America’s journey, we worked with McKinsey & Company to craft a blueprint around the belief that all children must attain an excellent education.
History
2009-2013: Building Momentum
2009 Mumbai and Pune sites launch.
2011 Delhi site launches, Alumni movement starts.
2012 Chennai and Hyderabad sites launch,
InspirED Conference sparks dialogue in education.
Our Students move from elementary to secondary school, and our first Students graduate.
2013-2017: Deepening Impact
2013 Broadway-inspired Maya Musical sets a new bar.
2014 Redrawing India, the first book about us, published.
2014 Ahmedabad site launches.
2015 Bengaluru site launches.
2016 InnovatEd launches to support early-stage Alumni education entrepreneurs,
Firki, our teacher education platform, launches.
2017-2022: Balancing Depth, Scale And Innovation
2017 TFIx launches to support education entrepreneurs across India who serve children in need.
2018 The Kids Education Revolution launches to reimagine education in partnership with children.
2019 Grey Sunshine, the second book about us, published,
The Greatest Show on Earth - a musical on the status of India's education staged.
2020 Community support through Covid including ration and device distributions.
2021 Kolkata site launches,
Campaign to re-open schools,
Our Students return to schools.
2024 TFI turns 15.
2025 Gurgaon site launches.
Today, we are a movement of 900 Fellows teaching 33,000 children and 4,500+ Alumni who are collectively reaching 50 million children across India.
People
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Teach For India is a Teach To Lead project governed by a committed Board of Trustees.
Teach To Lead Trustees
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Nisaba Godrej
Executive Chairperson, Godrej Consumer Products Limited
Key Architect of GCPL's strategy and transformation
Chairperson, Board of Trustees, Teach For India
Board Member, Godrej Agrovet
Board Member, Godrej Industries
Board Member, Bharti Airtel
Board Member, Mahindra and Mahindra
Arnavaz Aga
Director and ex-Chairperson, Thermax Limited
Nominated Member of Rajya Sabha (2012-18)
Board Member, Akanksha Foundation
Meher Pudumjee
Chairperson, Thermax Limited
Board Member, Pidilite Industries
Board Member, Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation
Chairperson, Akanksha Foundation
Nandita Dugar
Board Member, Akanksha Foundation
Board Member, The Circle
Neel Shahani
Ex-Banker, JP Morgan, Barclays
Ex-Head of Equity Sales Trading, CLSA and IIFL
Board Member, Akanksha Foundation
Pramath Raj Sinha
Founder and MD, Harappa Education
Founder and Chairperson, Board of Trustees, Ashoka University
Founder and MD, 9.9 Group
Founding Dean, Indian School of Business
Ramesh Srinivasan
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company, Inc. United States
Global Dean, Bower Forum, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Member, McKinsey's Global Social Responsibility Council
Shaheen Mistri
CEO, Teach For India
Founder and Board Member, The Akanksha Foundation
Advisory Board Member, Museum of Solutions and The Circle
Tara Singh Vachani
Executive Chairperson, Antara Senior Living
Vice-Chairperson, Max India Limited
Managing Trustee, Max India Foundation
National Advisory Board
Abhishek Patil
Student, Flame University
Teach For India Student Alumnus
Deepak Satwalekar
Ex-MD & CEO, HDFC Life Insurance Company Limited
Muskan Tanwani
Student, Ashoka University
Teach For India Student Alumnus
Prateek Kanwal
Director, Deloitte, Co-Founder, Kautilya School of Public Policy
Teach For India Alumnus
Sandeep Rai
Founder, The Circle and Senior Advisor, Teach For India
Soumya Jain
Founder and CEO, iTeach Schools
Teach For India Alumnus
Wendy Kopp
CEO, Teach For All
Founder, Teach For America
Our Leadership Team
Shaheen Mistri
CEO & Founder Trustee
Alpana Mallick
Senior Director, Regions
Ankit Agrawal
City Director, Hyderabad
Anuradha Rao
Senior Director, Impact & Operations
Apoorv Shah
City Director, Ahmedabad
Ashwath Bharath
Senior Director, Movement Building
Caroline Paul
City Director, Mumbai
Deepika Guleria
Director, Careers
Francis Vidhayathil
Chief Financial Officer
Gaurav Dutt
City Director, Kolkata
Hitesh Rawtani
Director, Technology
Keshar Mokha
City Director, Pune
Kritika Rawat
Director, Kids Education Revolution
Manasi Jain
Chief Of Staff
Nalika Braganza
Director, Training & Impact
Rahat Lokhandwala
City Director, Bengaluru
Ramabhadran Sundaram
Director, National Alumni Impact
Revathi Ramanan
Senior Director, Regions
Sara Khan
Director, Development
Shreyas Vatsa
Director, Selection
Shivani Agrawal
Director, Strategy & Impact
Shruti Parikh
Director, Human Resources
Sitara Menon
Director, Brand & Communications
Swetha Balakrishnan
Director, Recruitment
Tanya Arora
Senior Director, People
Vidya Rajaram
City Director, Chennai
Regional Advisory Board Delhi
Amitav Virmani(Chair)
Founder & CEO, The Education Alliance
Aakanksha Gulati
Director, ACT Grants
Anu Prasad
Founder-Leader, India Leaders for Social Sector
James Abraham
Founder & Chairman, Mynzo Carbon
Mansi Joshi
Global Lead, Learning Experiences, Teach For All
Radhika Bharat Ram
Joint Vice Chairperson, The Shri Ram Schools
Founder, KARM Fellowship for Young Indian Women
Tara Singh Vachani
Executive Chairman, Antara Senior Living
Non – Executive Director, Max India Limited
Regional Advisory Board Bengaluru
Arnavaz Aga (Chair)
Ex-Chairperson, Thermax Limited
Director on Board, Thermax Limited
Aditi Premji
Advisor and Board Member, Dasra
K. Vaijayanti
Head, Resource & Research, Akshara Foundation
Pavithra K.L.
Associate Director, Dream a Dream
Rahat Lokhandwala
City Director, Bengaluru
Shashi Nair
Director, Viridus Social Impact Solutions
Programme Director, NILE, Advaith Foundation
Vinita Bali
Ex-MD, Britannia
V Ravichandar
Chairman, Feedback Consulting
Regional Advisory Board Pune
Meher Pudumjee (Chair)
Chairperson, Thermax Limited.
Anshoo Gaur
Co-Founder & Group CEO, Ideas to Impacts
Joseph Cubas
Head of School, Avasara Academy
Keshar Mokha
City Director, Pune, Teach For India
Pradeep Bhargava
Ex-Managing Director, Cummins Generator Technologies India Ltd.
Raj Gilda
Co-Founder and VP, Lend-A-Hand India
Rati Forbes
Director, Forbes Marshall Limited
Teach For India is a part of the Teach For All Network, a growing group of independent organisations working on expanding educational opportunities in their nations. The 60 countries in the network today share a common vision of an excellent education for all children.
Theory of Change
Meaningful change happens when we cultivate a collective force of leaders. Driven by the vision of an India free of poverty and filled with love, our leaders choose education as the path to get there. Over the next decade, we aspire to build a movement of 50,000 leaders. They will work collectively, with love, to transform the lives of 1 in 10 children from low-income communities in and beyond our regions.
We Build Leaders
We find committed people for our two-year Fellowship. We place them in low-income or government schools where they work relentlessly to transform the lives of their students. We support them as they find careers within and beyond the education sector.
We Nurture A Movement Of Leaders
After the Fellowship, our Fellows have lifelong access to our Alumni movement. This close-knit, supportive community learns and acts together for educational equity.
Within Education
Our Alumni work to transform schools and communities, join or start organisations to support education and work within government.
Beyond Education
Our Alumni work in careers in research, law, media, government and business and find ways to continue to advocate for educational equity.
Transformational Schools: They choose to be teachers, teacher trainers and leaders in schools or community centres.
Enablers of Transformational Schools: They support schools through curriculum, assessment reform, large-scale teacher training, and ed tech.
Policy and Governance: They work on policy and governance issues, supporting governments directly on large-scale systemic reforms in education.
Innovations
While Teach For India's Flagship programme is the two-year Teach For India Fellowship, we also run other programmes to build leadership.
If you are a Pre-service educator, a Teacher, a Teacher Coach or a School Leader:
Firki is an online teacher development portal which has courses aligned to content and pedagogy and carefully curated resources. Firki runs online learning programs for pre-service educators, teachers, school leaders and coaches in partnership with organisations and educational institutions.
If you have completed your Teach For India Fellowship and An Early-Stage Entrepreneur:
InnovatED is a platform for training and supporting entrepreneurs looking to build impactful organisations in education. It helps early-stage education entrepreneurs navigate the complexities of establishing and sustaining a new organisation, enabling them to create an impact.
If you are a Student:
The Kids Education Revolution is a platform for students and educators to reimagine education by building student voice, partnership and leadership.
If you are an Education Entrepreneur:
TFIx is an incubator for education entrepreneurs across India who aspire to launch their own contextualised versions of Teach For India's Fellowship to serve vulnerable children in their region.
If you are a Government Official:
Our Government Relations vertical looks for opportunities to place Alumni within the government to work on education projects. We offer a range of Student and teacher resources that can be used at scale to reimagine education. We thought-partner with the government on educational leadership and Student voice.
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