Teach For India
Leadership
Development Journey
Imagine an India Free of Poverty and Filled with Love...
At Teach for India, Student, Fellow, Staff, and Alumni Leaders will work towards the new purpose of our leadership development journey: An India free of poverty and filled with love
Samantha
May
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Why
Poverty?
Because no one living in the 21st century in our country
should be hungry, unemployed, unable to access healthcare or education.
Samantha
May
Why
Love?
Because the ideals enshrined in our Constitution – liberty, justice, equality, and fraternity – will only be the privilege of all Indians when we learn to treat others the way we wish to be treated – with love. To us, love is an all-encompassing value. If we learn to love ourselves, each other, our work, our country, our world then we will do whatever it takes to care for and improve things around us for all of us.
All of us will embody Three Commitments...
Commitment to 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.
Commitment to 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.
Commitment to India
An India free of poverty and filled with love: We will need us to work in partnership for change. We will do this by engaging the Cs to understand inequity and its root causes, discover the truth of the world, live in harmony with the environment around us, and envision and create solutions for a better India.
All of us will practice the 8 Cs
As I work towards my goals, I take care of myself and others.
Compassion
As I work towards my goals, I take care of myself and others
As I work towards my goals, I take care of myself and others
As I work towards my goals, I take care of myself and others
I search for the why, what and how.
Curiosity
I search for the why what and how.
I develop the strength to do things I am afraid of and persevere through challenges
Courage
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I develop the strength to do the things I am
afraid of and persevere through challenges
I reflect on who I choose to be and how I choose to see other and the world.
Consciousness
I reflect on who I choose to be and how I
choose to see others and the world
I use my imagination and ideas to create change.
Creativity
I use my imagination and ideas to create change
I develop clear, rational and open-minded thinking that is based on evidence.
Critical Thinking
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I develop clear, rational, and open-minded
thinking that is based on evidence
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I listen deeply and express myself openly
and respectfully
Communication
I work with love, in partnership with others towards shared goals.
Collaboration
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I work with love, in partnership with others
towards shared goals
The LDJ for our Students
For our student leaders, the commitments to self, other and India have been captured in a rubric that we call the Student Vision Scale. Students will use this scale as a reflective tool and identify which of the 8 C's they need to work on, in order to move up the scale.
The student journey has been divided into four stages from the first grade up to the tenth grade. Each stage has...
a) Developmental Milestones with age-specific research on what a child is able to do at that age emotionally, physically, and cognitively.
b) A Student Vision Scale with stage-specific examples to illustrate it.
c) Student Goals and Portfolio to enable students to reflect on their growth towards outcomes.
d) C's in content, culture and opportunities that provide clarity on grade-specific academic outcomes and help a teacher build the 8 C's through multiple varied means.
The LDJ for our Fellows
For our Fellow Leaders, the commitments to self, other, and India have been divided into three sets of goals that they work towards through their Fellowship Journey. Fellows have a Teaching as Leadership Rubric mapped to the 8 C's to help them grow on essential ways of being and doing towards becoming transformational teachers and leaders for equity.
The Fellow journey has been divided into Institute and four stages that capture the two-year Fellowship. Each stage has...
a) A set of outcomes mapped to the commitments to self, other, and India.
b) A set of Fellowship milestones that depict the important events through each stage.
c) A Fellow curriculum that outlines the scope and sequence of learning that Fellows will go through at each stage. This is linked to the Teaching as Leadership Rubric for Fellows to gauge their progress and reflect on the same.
We build a movement of leaders who work together to ensure children from high-needs communities attain an excellent and equitable education.
This movement of leaders starts with you.
It starts with Teaching.
Welcome to the Leadership Development Journey!