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1. Background Information
About the Movement Teach For India is a nationwide movement that aims to bridge the educational gap in India by placing outstanding college graduates and young professionals in low-income schools to teach full-time for 2 years. The organization's mission is to build the movement of leaders who will eliminate inequity in education. Hence, Teach For India's Fellows are provided with intensive training and support throughout the two years, and are supported to enter the corporate, public and social sectors after their Fellowship so that they become life-long leaders, across sectors, advocating for educational equity. The model is based on an organization called Teach For America, that began close to 20 years ago in the US. The first batch of 80 Teach for India Fellows began teaching in June 2009, and graduated from the Fellowship in April 2011. The second batch of 135 Fellows is currently in the second year of their Fellowship. Teach For India received close to 5000 applications for its third batch of 250 Fellows, who have started teaching in June 2011. Those interested in the 2012 Fellowship, or in getting involved with the organization in other ways, can learn more directly at www.teachforindia.org. The movement is focused on a common vision, that 'One day, all children will have access to an excellent education. Vision One day all children will attain an excellent education. Mission Teach For Indias mission is to build the movement of leaders who will eliminate inequity in education. Teach For India: Theory of Change In the short-run, Teach For India will act as a source of dedicated, quality teachers who will help students achieve significant academic gains. In the long run, Teach For India believes that it will take a large movement of leaders to create sustainable educational reform in the country. Therefore, by placing large numbers of highly qualified teachers in low-income schools, Teach For India will create a growing force of alumni, who transformed by their experiences in the classroom, will work toward creating change in the education sector in India. Teaching As Leadership Teach For India strongly believes that excellent teachers employ the same skills as excellent leaders in any field. Teach For India has selected Fellows who have demonstrated excellence in the past and will cultivate these Fellows to become extraordinary leaders within the classroom who will work toward achieving significant academic gains for students and will also help Fellows develop into leaders who will work toward creating sustainable educational reform after they complete the two-year teaching commitment. www.teachforindia.org

Components of The Teach For India Model 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Recruit the most outstanding university graduates and young professionals Train Fellows in innovative teaching methods through sessions and ongoing mentor support Place Fellows in full-time teaching positions in under-resourced schools for two years Build partnerships to provide Teach for India alumni with multiple leadership opportunities Support alumni as they advocate for equity in education

Who we are looking for Teach For India is looking for applicants who will be leaders in the classroom and beyond. We recognize that leaders come in many forms with varied past experiences, so there is no one profile of an ideal applicant. There are many ways to demonstrate leadership qualities, and we view applicants holistically by looking for evidence of demonstrated past achievement: achieving ambitious, measurable results in academics, extra-curricular activities, and/or work leadership. The Teach For India Fellowship is a highly selective program. In the last 3 years, we have selected approximately 8% of our applicants as Fellows. For the 2012 Fellowship, we are seeking 450 Fellows to teach 22,500 children in four cities.

Highlights of the Teach For India movement so far Growth: Teach For India is currently in its second year of operations. We are thrilled to see a continuous and growing interest in the Fellowship. From a cohort of 80 Fellows who joined us in May 2009, we have now grown to approximately 400 Fellows. Out of the 5000 applications for our 2011 batch, 250 Fellows were selected for the cohort. The aim is to impact 65000 children, in 8-10 cities, and their surrounding rural areas, within the next 5 years. Our Fellows: Fellows include outstanding young leaders - including graduates from renowned institutions across the country and abroad, such as the IITs, IIMs, BITS Pilani, St. Stephen's, St. Xavier's and Princeton University and dynamic professionals from corporates such as McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, HDFC, Accenture, Thermax, ICICI and Godrej Industries. Our impact: In 2009-2010, Teach For India Fellows touched the lives of almost 3000 children in 33 schools. I n 2 0 1 0 - 1 1 , t h e n u m b e r g r o w e d t o 6 3 s c h o o l s a n d 7 0 0 0 c h i l d r e n . In 20112012, we will be operating in 130 schools and impacting 13500 children. Our children have shown considerable growth in their writing skills, and have doubled in their reading fluency (27 to 62 words per minute). Our Fellows have also built relationships beyond the classroom with parents, principals and teachers in their schools. Through their efforts, t he Fe l lo ws hav e i nc rea sed student attendance from 81% to 89%, showing their ability to invest their students and their families. In the coming years, we aim for an average of 1.5 years of skills-growth from students' incoming skill level in reading comprehension, math, grammar and writing. Outside the classroom: Parallel to their work in the classrooms, our Fellows are continually being exposed to rigorous training modules, which ensure their development as excellent teachers, www.teachforindia.org

communicators, responsible leaders and significant change-makers. As second year Fellows, they undertake a community project which addresses barriers to student achievement that externally influence their students' academic lives. They have also met with leaders such as Hilary Clinton, Professor Yunus, Dr. Abdul Kalam, Geet Sethi , Sachin Tendulkar, Aamir Khan, Nandita Das, Rahul Bose, Aditya Natraj, Geet Sethi, Harsh Mandar, Hillary Clinton, Jerry Rao, Nachiket Mor, Wendy Kopp, and William J. Burns. Over the last 3 years, close to 100 leaders from diverse sectors have shown their support by volunteering in TFI classrooms. Several corporates, educational institutions, foundations, media houses, and individuals have supported the Teach For India movement in a variety of ways. Please visit www.teachforindia.org for more details on our supporters and partners. Partnerships Teach For India is inspired by Teach For America, a US-based organization with over 17,000 alumni who have impacted nearly 3 million students since 1990. Teach For India is part of Teach For All, a global network of 20 independent social enterprises that are working to expand educational opportunity in their nations by enlisting their most promising future leaders in the effort. Teach For All aspires to the vision that one day all children will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education. The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation has provided financial support to Teach For India A growing list of leading corporates, graduate schools, foundations, and prominent individuals have also pledged their support for this movement

Empowering our Fellows: Training To rapidly build their skills and to help them become effective teachers, the Fellows undergo an intensive residential training program for 5 weeks before they begin teaching during which they: Learn current and innovative teaching methodologies, lesson planning and curriculum development Are trained in best classroom management and child counseling Are exposed to practical teaching through a summer school where they actually teach children from low-income backgrounds Develop mindsets around Teach For Indias culture and core values Build a sense of one team Meet leaders from across sectors

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2. The Bigger Picture: Beyond The Fellowship

Educational equity towards systemic change Teach For India believes that in order for all children to achieve an excellent education, we need a movement of leaders, across sectors, who are committed to and will work towards achieving this vision. A range of issues must be addressed in concert for this change to come about, from improved teacher training to increased accountability for school performance to alignment from the media. This jigsaw puzzle is complex, and for now, incomplete. Through the course of their careers, Teach For India Fellows will take on each of these issues and more, working to effect positive change in education, from inside and outside the education sector.

Teach For India aims to expose Fellows to information about potential career tracks and provide professional enrichment opportunities, to aid their career decision-making and bolster the strength of their job and graduate degree program applications. Action Curriculum The Action Curriculum consists of 5 optional courses which Fellows pursue in the second year, to learn about how to effect change from within any given sector of interest: Social enterprise, CSR, Government, Education or Advocacy. www.teachforindia.org

Opportunities Teach For Indias first batch of Fellows graduated in April 2011. The 80 alumni are now spread all over the country and abroad in jobs ranging from consulting to education startups; and as students in top universities such as Harvard, Cornell, Chicago Booth and Columbia. Teach For India supports its Fellows to pursue their individual career interests by training and mentoring them and striving to build relationships with top schools, universities, NGOs, and corporates throughout the country. Teach For India facilitates interactions between Fellows and these institutions to help Fellows secure placements. Teach For India also has a large number of partnerships to provide summer internships between years 1 and 2 of the Fellowship. Corporates A large and growing number of corporates support Teach For India alumni by offering deferrals on job offers for new hires choosing to pursue the Fellowship, granting paid sabbaticals to employees selected for the Fellowship and/or recruiting from the pool of Fellows while giving 2 years of work experience credit. Tie-ups include: Axis Bank, AZB & Partners, Bharat Petroleum Limited, Citibank, Godrej Industries, Ernst and Young, HDFC Standard Life, ICICI Pru, Idea, JSW, McKinsey & Company,Tata Chemicals, Yes Bank, Zensar Technologies and Thermax Group. Non-profits Teach For India's non-profit partners recruit from the Fellowship pool and recognize Teach For India as work experience. These include Akanksha, iDiscoveri, Muktangan and the Riverside School. Graduate schools Graduate schools tie up with Teach For India in a variety of ways, offering admission deferrals, assistance with loans and scholarships, recognizing Teach For India as valid work experience, and application fee waivers.. Additionally, IIT-Delhi and IIM- Bangalore cancel the fees of graduates who join certain NGOs including Teach For India. Current graduate school tie-ups include ISB, Harvard Law School, Harvard Business School, Columbia Law School, Princeton University School of Public Affairs, etc. Summer internships Teach For India partners with a wide variety of organizations to provide summer internship opportunities for Fellows between years 1 and 2 of the Fellowship. These include: Akanksha, , Bharat Petroleum, Beyond Profit, Citizens For Peace, Education Initiatives, , Intellecap, Kirloskar, Maharashtra Government, Mckinsey, Manav Sadhana,, Operation Smile, Public Health Associates, Pune Municipal Corporation, Sanctuary Asia, Teach First, Teach For All, Teach for Malaysia, Teach for China, Ummeed and Udaan Shimla

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3. Profile of Teach For India Fellows, Batch of 2010 and 2011

Background All our Fellows believe that we need a movement for educational equity in order to transform India. Below is an indicative profile of our Fellows. We continue to build momentum at colleges and organizations and are certain that our next batch of Fellows will add to the diversity at Teach For India.

Fellow Distribution
Young Professionals Experienced Professionals Undergraduates Postgraduates

12% 35% 41% 12%

Age range 20 to 35 years, with an even distribution between men and women Examples of leadership positions that our Fellows hold Our Fellows have demonstrated leadership in a variety of ways College festival coordinators, Editors of college magazines, Leaders of diverse college clubs and societies, Managers of departments and projects at work, Heads of sports teams and clubs, Corporate team leaders, leaders of youth groups such as AISEC and Rotaract. Examples of academic achievement Over half our cohort scored 80% or higher in their 12th grade, with 1 in 4 scoring above 90%. Examples of commitment to the community Participants of Corporate CSR initiatives, NSS members, volunteers at low-income schools and communities, volunteers at animal shelters, leaders and members of social initiatives and projects, writers on matters of social concern.

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Educational Institutions that our Fellows attended

Anna University, Chennai Asian College of Journalism, Chennai BITS, Pilani Brown University, USA Carnegie Mellon University, USA Christ University, Bangalore Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University Fergusson College, Pune Harvard University HR College, Mumbai Institute of Hotel Management, Mumbai IIFT, Delhi IIM, Calcutta and Indore IIT (Bombay, Madras, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Roorkee) Jai Hind College, Mumbai Lady Shriram College, Delhi London School of Economics, UK Loyola College Chennai Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies National Institute of Technology (Calicut, Kurukshetra, Surat, Surathkal, Rourkela, Warangal) Nelson Mandela Center for Peace and Confict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia National Law School, Bangalore Northwestern University Chicago, USA Princeton University, USA Sophia's College, Mumbai SP Jain, Mumbai Sriram College of Commerce, Delhi St. Stephen's College, Delhi St. Xavier's College, Mumbai St. Xaviers College, Kolkata Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune Sheffield University, UK Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai University Department of Applied Psychology, University of Mumbai University of Pennsylvania

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Organizations our Fellows have worked with

Accenture Aditya Birla Group- Idea Cellular Akanksha Foundation Ashoka Foundation Axis Bank Bharat Petroleum Britannia Industries Citigroup Credit Suisse Crisil Deloitte Consulting Ernst & Young Godrej Industries Goldman Sachs HDFC Standard Life Insurance Hewlett Packard Hindustan Unilever ICICI Bank Infosys JP Morgan Chase JSW Foundation KPMG Larsen and Toubro Mahindra and Mahindra Mastek Ltd. McKinsey and Company Pratham Infotech Foundation Reliance Siemens Tata Consultancy Services Tata Power Times of India Thomson Reuters Thermax Whirlpool Wipro

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