ANNUAL UPDATE FOR 2013 and 2014

Keerthi Surapaneni

02-19-2014

Teach for India

Mission

• Building a movement of leaders to eliminate inequity. • A highly systematic approach focusing on delivery of

high quality education . Teach For India’s mission is to build a movement of leaders who will end educational inequity. They are well known for their fellowship program.

• http://www.teachforindia.org/about-us/what-we-do• Reduce the skill - level behind their current grade

level for students and drive quality eachers to be better leaders in making an impact.

• Teachers + Technology = >Impact!

History

• Shaheen Mistri (Founding Member and CEO of Akanksha for 20 yrs) met with CEO of Teach for America establishing TechtoLead formally in 2008. June 2009 is where they had first fellows in their program.Year Cities Schools Fellows Students Impacted

2009-2010 Mumbai and Pune 33 87 2800

2010-2011 Mumbai and Pune 63 214 6,500

2011-2012 Mumbai, Pune and Delhi 122 373 12,000

2012-2013 Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Hyderabad and Chennai 164 506 16,000

2013-2014 Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Hyderabad and Chennai 209 730 23,000

Organization Structure

• Board of Directors and Advisory Members• Their board includes Nita Ambani . 11 board

members in total. • Advisors include Wendy Copp (Teach for America

CEO) , Ajit Ragnekar (Dean of ISB). 6 Advisory members

• Their team includes, CEO,CPO,Directors http://www.teachforindia.org/about-us/our-team

• Saahil Sood, the City Director, Hyderabad, for Teach for India

• http://www.teachforindia.org/about-us/board-of-directors

Location

• When we started out in 2009, our Fellows were placed in Mumbai and Pune. Today, we are in 5 cities across India and still growing.

• GPS, NBT Nagar schools in Hyderabad is our current focus in imparting technology

- Recruitment and Selection - 2 Year training and fellowship - Placements in fulltime jobs in under-resourced schools of the

fellows - Alumni Impact - Our core values i.e. Seva, Teamwork, Integrity, Respect and

Humility, Resourcefulness, Excellence, Sense of Possibility, and Reflection.

IMPACTTeach For India has set up systems to drive and measure our short-term

impact on student achievement, as well as our longer-term impact in the development of our Fellows into life-long leaders who can eliminate inequity in education.

Activities

Finances

Here is annual financial report across all chapters  http://d2edn48kedz4vj.cloudfront.net/doc/Annual+Report+2012-13v2.pdf

Annual Income and Expenditure for 2012-2013 (Zero overhead) – Rs. 169,687,440

Funds and Liabilities, Property and Assets – Rs. 96,200,651

Asha, Seattle Involvement

Asha, Seattle Involvement

• Other chapters are not involved in the project.

• This will be treated as Asha Star project to help impact via technology resources and donations specific to this STAR project

• This is a new project beginning 2013

• Venkat Bhamidipati from Microsoft and his son Aneesh are the Key contacts.

Asha, Seattle Involvement Contd.

• We are specifically supporting TFI , Hyderabad (112 teachers, 37 schools)

• GPS and NBT nagar

• Age group is 5-8 yrs primarily through 5th grade

• This is minor part of budget and Asha is not a primary sponsor for the organization

Asha, Seattle Budget

Item Amount Current Fiscal Year (Rs)

Amount Previous Fiscal Year (Rs)

Poker Tournament $6314 N/A

Microsoft Give Campaign ? N/A

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Total … …

Updates for 2013

General Partner Updates

• Laptops

• Khan Academy approached to work to tailor curriculum to help deliver better impact.

• Each class currently has 50 + students.

• Recently promoted by Rajdeep Sardesai in his blog and twitter and covered in his program

• Education conference in ISB Hyd Dec 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_kKXAg55uUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_kKXAg55uU

Updates for Asha, Seattle

• Give detailed updates for all the Asha, Seattle supported activities. Add more slides if necessary.o For ex: if we support students in class 8, 9, and 10, how many

students graduated, how many more students are getting added, etc.

o For ex: If we are supporting an entire school, how many students graduate, infrastructure improvements(if any), …

o For ex: For SAC projects, if possible, outline the progress made by individual children.

• Share success stories. • What went well, what didn’t go as expected, what

could have been done differently.

Site Visit Report

Their main website http://www.teachforindia.org/ has testimaonials from various. We had a site visit from our Hyderbad chapter through Jayanthi (contact number : 93 93 93 0802) and he had very good things to say.

As I met with a few teachers (Fellows) and Saahil at TFI, it was a wonderful experience and a big learning. The systematic approach that TFI follows is the one that drives result and passionately carries forward the consistency in delivery 

Most kids are 5-8 yrs old

Here is a video from Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrchk29KSUI

Audit Report

• Indian law requires all partners to have an audit report every year. Highlights from last years audit report (Form 10B). A sample audit report, from a project, can be found at http://www.ashanet.org/projects-new/documents/745/auditreport2008.pdf.

Survey Results

• Include the results of the annual survey.

Process Checks

Item Status

Approved Budget <Amount>

Approval Type One of Recurring (new), recurring, one-time

Amount(s) disbursed last fiscal year <amount>

Amount Utilized by the project last fiscal year

<Amount>

Last Site Visit <year and date>

Current Primary Steward <name of the steward>

Current Secondary Stewards <names of the secondary steward>

Status of the web page Up to Date / Not updated

Status of the yahoo databases Up to Date / Not up to date

Pictures

• Latest pictures from the project.

Resources

• Links to news paper articles, or other items of interest.

Questions?

FAQs

• Some FAQs at Asha, Seattle meetings.o How many rs are we spending per kid per year?o Does the amount being spent on infrastructure items (building

schools, repairing roofs, etc. ) look reasonable?o Where exactly is the partner located? (especially for remote

projects. Be ready to locate the project area on a map)o What is the graduation rate of the school?o What is the student to teacher ratio in class rooms?o What is the girl to boy ratio in the school?o What are the line items in the budget?o Why is the partner asking for more funding for line item N?

(You will be asked this if there are changes in the budget line items)

o Community opinion of the project. o What went well, what didn’t go as expected, what can be done

differently.